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Brooklyn DA to Stop Prosecuting for Low-Level Pot Arrests
Taylor Berman · 04/23/14 04:55PMFour Ultra-Orthodox Jews Arrested for Attacking Gay Man in Brooklyn
Taylor Berman · 04/23/14 02:55PMBrooklyn Woman Didn't Steal a Car, But Thinks Her Mom May Have
Jay Hathaway · 04/16/14 12:40PMWhere Is the Next Brooklyn?
Hamilton Nolan · 04/10/14 08:55AMSpike Lee Thinks A.O. Scott Doesn't Understand Brooklyn
Hazel Cills · 03/31/14 06:30PMOn Sunday, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote a column on Brooklyn and its on-screen portrayal in recent years, from Girls to Saturday Night Fever. With a title like "Whose Brooklyn Is It, Anyway?" it was bound to irk at least a few people, but Scott made sure to piss off the one Brooklynite you don't want to piss off: Spike Lee.
Judge Pans Killer's Performance As Lawyer
Justin Charity · 03/29/14 11:14AMSalvatore Perrone, a 65-year-old garment salesman from Staten Island, stands accused of executing three Brooklyn shopkeepers in 2012. In a trial tentatively scheduled for the fall, the defendant will represent himself. Perrone launches his defense just a month after medical experts declared him mentally fit for prosecution, barely, despite his repeated outbursts to declare that he murdered on behalf of a "Palestinian section of the CIA."
Yuppies Burst Williamsburg's Borders, Spilling Out in All Directions
Hamilton Nolan · 03/13/14 09:26AMA Mystical Spree of Decapitations In Brooklyn
Justin Charity · 03/06/14 10:12PMObama's America. A man can't even walk his Boston Terrier through Prospect Park without tripping over a severed goat head. And then a few afternoons later, a young mother strolls with her two-year-old son through a neighboring park, only to shriek and stumble upon two ceremoniously decapitated rooster skulls, sacrificed on a clay plate.
Hamilton Nolan · 02/26/14 11:41AM
Spike Lee on Gentrification: "You Can't Just Come and Bogart"
Taylor Berman · 02/26/14 10:32AMPregnant Woman Killed by Snow Plow in Brooklyn
Taylor Berman · 02/13/14 02:32PMBrooklyn Men Released From Prison 22 Years After False Conviction
Luke O'Neil · 02/08/14 02:30PMDead Man Found Hanging From Tree in Prospect Park
Taylor Berman · 02/03/14 10:19AMThis Is the Williamsburg of Your City: A Map of Hip America
Max Read · 01/29/14 11:30AMWhat is your city's Williamsburg? What's its hippest—or formerly hippest—or sometimes just youngest—neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch? (And what, for that matter, is its Bushwick, or "Next Williamsburg"?) If you don't know off the top of your head, don't worry. We do, thanks to the collective knowledge of Gawker readers.