Brooklyn (New York City)

'Blue Jasmine' trailer: Yo, Andrew Dice Clay in a Woody Allen film?

2013-06-07 11:40:00

The trailer for Woody Allen's� "Blue Jasmine" is out, providing a first peek at one of the summer's most counterintuitive bits of casting -- potty-mouthed comic Andrew Dice Clay in a dramatic role opposite Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins and...

55 years to life for N.Y. man who killed woman shielding kids

2013-05-28 16:57:00

NEW YORK -- Last year, we told the story of Denise Peace, a grandmother thrust back into a parenting role for several young children after the death of her 34-year-old daughter, who�was caught in the middle of a gunfight outside a Brooklyn elementary...

Herbert Blau dies at 87; theater director helped shape CalArts

2013-05-09 22:48:00

Herbert Blau, an influential theater director, theorist and scholar who helped shape CalArts during its early years, died at his home in Seattle on May 3, his 87th birthday. He had cancer, according to the Seattle Times. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born...

Mouth's online indie food store now includes California artisans (fig jam, Wine Country honey)

2013-05-25 09:00:00

Online food purveyor New York Mouth is now simply Mouth. The Brooklyn-based company, which sells local goods from indie food makers located across New York's five boroughs, has recently expanded its online shopping platform to also include handmade,...

2013 TV upfronts: Fox unveils fall and midseason schedules

2013-05-12 21:44:00

NEW YORK -- With ratings for "American Idol" tumbling and few new hits to speak of other than "The Following," Fox will unveil a 2013-14 schedule Monday that includes five new comedies and four dramas during its upfront presentation to advertisers in...

Anthony Weiner in N.Y. mayor race 2 years after 'sexting' scandal

2013-05-22 06:23:00

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose once-shining political career collapsed after lewd online relationships with women forced him to resign from Congress two years ago, entered New York's mayoral race Wednesday with promises to make...

Drug trafficker for the mob kept cash, cocaine in Beverly Hills

2013-05-23 14:44:00

A drug trafficker working for organized crime in New York kept millions of dollars and dozens of kilograms of cocaine in his homes in Beverly Hills, prosecutors said Thursday. Alessandro Taloni pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court...

Superstorm Sandy aid center on Staten Island fights order to leave

2013-05-06 06:30:00

NEW YORK — It has been six months since Donna Graziano packed a barbecue into her car, drove 15 miles from her Brooklyn home to Staten Island, and began cooking for residents of a neighborhood ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. Her one-woman effort in a...

PASSINGS: Frederic Franklin, David Morris Kern

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Frederic Franklin Dancer helped popularize modern ballet in U.S. Frederic Franklin, 98, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States, died Saturday at a Manhattan, N.Y., hospital of complications from pneumonia,...

Cablevision to give kids network Sprout a boost

2013-05-03 06:36:00

Sprout is spreading its roots. The kids network aimed at children ages 2 to 5 has landed a distribution deal with Cablevision Systems Corp., a large pay-TV operator in the New York City area. Getting access to Cablevision subscribers is key for Sprout...

Review: Andrew Norman a sound investment at Brooklyn Festival

2013-04-21 19:35:00

There is little mistaking California's 22nd largest city for Brooklyn, N.Y., to say nothing of the literally lifeless Glendale section of western Queens, adjacent to Brooklyn. Unlike New York City's Glendale, ours has, despite accommodating Forest Lawn,...

Truman Capote's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' manuscript up for auction

2013-04-23 11:49:00

A manuscript of Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is being auctioned online by R.R. Auctions this week. The manuscript includes Capote's handwritten edits, including one of the most significant: He changes the main character's name to Holly...

This sculpture park is part of the Pratt Institute, an art and design school founded in 1887. Each year, 50 works such as "Welcome" by Raphael Zollinger are installed on campus.The garden offers a place for student to relax and study. It also serves as public space, open to area residents.

2013-06-18 13:08:19

Nina Arianda and Michael Pitt on the set of "Rob the Mob" in Brooklyn, N.Y.

2013-06-17 16:02:00

North Street -Labs created the "Treequency" during the Red Bull Creation competition in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 16.

2013-06-16 00:00:00