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Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprising stories of neighborhood nomenclature. West of Canarsie and east of Midwood is Flatlands, a ...
FLATLANDS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Hearts are heavy in Brooklyn over the deadly stabbing of a man who sang for his church choir. Even at night, Avenue K in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn is a quiet ...
A beloved Brooklyn church choir singer was stabbed to death on his daily walk to buy the newspaper by a next-door neighbor he had clashed with over loud music, according to cops and prosecutors ...
The collision happened near Avenue I and Schenectady Avenue in the Flatlands neighborhood just before 5 p.m. Thursday.
A five-car crash in Brooklyn sent several people to the hospital late Friday.
The Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church has been a borough staple since the 17th century.
A 66-year-old woman was found dead, stabbed multiple times inside her Brooklyn home, police sources said Wednesday. Cops called to the home on E. 56th St. near Flatlands Ave. in Flatlands about 3: ...
FLATLANDS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating after a man slapped a yarmulke off the head of a stranger in Brooklyn, and they're hoping surveillance video will ...
A burst hose-line and blown hydrant left several firefighters injured while battling a two-alarm house fire in Flatlands Tuesday night.
A Brooklyn man is facing burglary and grand larceny charges over an alleged attempt to steal a Flatlands house he once lived in, using an underhanded strategy of deed theft that has left many others ...
A 30-year-old man who gunned down his 21-year-old victim while he sat in the car with his girlfriend will spend the next 35 years of his life behind bars after he was sentenced on Tuesday to 35 ...