In Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the dog shit situation has simply gotten out of hand.

A man accused of identity theft was in a federal court today after he was exposed as having impersonated Stephen G. Dickerman, a lawyer with an office in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn that has been involved in at least 12 federal cases since 2012. At his arraignment today, the man's lawyer insisted on the charade, telling the judge, "I can clarify that the name of my client is Stephen G. Dickerman."

While jogging in Prospect Park yesterday, Kate Steciw came across the deathly tableau above sitting behind a wrought-iron fence. Grisly murder scene? Late funeral party for the Nets' 2014 playoffs performance? Some Pratt undergrad's dumb art project? (Probably.)

The East Williamsburg/Bushwick section of Brooklyn is set to become home to the first twenty-four hour diner/music venue that also has a dedicated Spin the Bottle table. Now you don't have to wait another ten years to put those soft lips of yours to work.

"The last woman you heard from said it's a person's First Amendment right to hang a poster like that on a pole, and she said it was also her freedom of speech right to take down that poster, and throw it in the garbage." Brooklynites would rather not be told to "dress modestly" in public.

The NYPD, seemingly determined to double down on violence against black people after the post-chokehold death of Eric Garner, apparently used the banned tactic again on a seven-months-pregnant woman after she grilled on the sidewalk in front of her home this weekend.

The video above shows Brooklyn police arresting Jahmil-El Cuffee in Bed Stuy last week, after Cuffee allegedly rolled a joint in public. At about 1:40, with Cuffee held down on the ground by several cops, officer Joel Edouard delivers what looks an awful lot like a swift boot to the side of his head.

Police say a Brooklyn woman was brutally dismembered and had her body parts strewn across a 40-mile stretch of Long Island, all because she reportedly refused to pay her fake landlord $200 for unreliable utilities.

Summer jam alert! As long as you live in New York's great borough of Brooklyn, that is. Someone has finally written a song about us—well, Brooklyn girls to be exact, but doesn't everyone in Brooklyn love dancing on the street and "waiting for the L train" (North Brooklyn's main subway line)?

Penelope, the pregnant Mexican Red Rump Tarantula shown above, might look scary, but her owner assures she's "mostly harmless." Yeah right, pal.

Cops responding to a nasty smell emanating from an apartment in Brooklyn yesterday discovered the rotting skeletal remains of a body that may have sat for up to a year before it was found. Police believe the corpse belonged to the tenant's 61-year-old mother.

A two-year-old who had gone missing Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn's Prospect Park was found dead yesterday evening after having drowned in Prospect Park lake. Ruhshona Kurbonova, 2, had gone missing with her 3-year-old cousin mid-afternoon during a family barbecue.

Robert De Niro, in town filming his forthcoming movie The Intern, reportedly just joined some unsuspecting World Cup fans at their home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn to watch the U.S.-Germany match.

Hannah Harris, 68, stole purses in two different Brooklyn restaurants this month, according to police. In the most recent incident, Harris slyly snagged a purse away from a woman holding a kid:

A city of 2.5 million is now home to a venue for a sport that has been in the Olympics for more than a century. What will those hipsters think of next?

According to a Bushwick resident, "Bees from Roberta's rooftop hives are escaping and terrorizing [the] street nightly."

Tonight police arrested a 27-year-old man who they say has been fatally stabbing people in Brooklyn.

The NYPD believes the man that who stabbed a six-year-old boy to death in Brooklyn Sunday evening also killed an 18-year-old woman in the same area Friday night.

Two young children—described as best friends—were repeatedly stabbed by a stranger in a Brooklyn elevator yesterday evening as they were on their way to get Icees. One child, Prince Joshua Avitto, 6, was pronounced dead at a local hospital while the other, Mikayla Capers, 7, remains in critical condition.

"I would not consider it fair if someone in Williamsburg were complaining that we weren't portraying Williamsburg in an accurate light," says a TV location scout, "considering that person probably just moved here from Ohio." It's too hard to tell who to dislike in Williamsburg these days.