Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York)

Author Sara Gran is as blunt as her Claire DeWitt character

2013-06-02 00:00:00

Sara Gran doesn't believe in studying writing. If you consider yourself a writer, just write. That's what Gran did for years on a notepad, often on the subway going to and from her job at the famous Strand bookstore in New York City before her first...

Brooklyn Festival samples the new classical music of the borough

2013-04-14 09:00:00

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...

Phoenix hits 'Saturday Night Live' ahead of Coachella

2013-04-08 11:18:00

A week before it's to headline Night 2 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Phoenix hit "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend with two songs from its upcoming album, "Bankrupt!" The French band opened with a blistering rendition of...

Man freed after 23 years in prison, cleared of killing N.Y. rabbi

2013-03-21 15:27:00

After more than two decades in prison, David Ranta walked out of a Brooklyn courtroom a free man Thursday, no longer charged with murdering a rabbi in one of the city’s more well-known homicides. �“To say I'm sorry for what you've endured...

Suspect in deadly Brooklyn hit-and-run arrested in Pennsylvania

2013-03-06 15:29:00

The man wanted in a Brooklyn hit-and-run that took three lives was arrested in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, about 90 miles west of where the crash occurred. The local ABC affiliate, WABC, showed video of Julio Acevedo in a blue hooded jacket and...

Reward raised for driver who fled deadly hit-and-run in Brooklyn

2013-03-05 09:21:00

The reward for the man wanted in connection with the tragic hit-and-run accident in an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn has risen to $12,000, police said on Tuesday, as authorities searched for the man who fled the scene where a family was killed....

Baby born after parents killed in New York hit-and-run crash dies

2013-03-04 08:58:00

NEW YORK -- A baby delivered by emergency Cesarean section died Monday morning after both parents, members of an Orthodox Jewish community, were killed in a hit-and-run accident over the weekend. The New York Police Department announced the baby’s...

Hours after baby dies, police ID suspect in Brooklyn hit-and-run

2013-03-04 13:28:00

NEW YORK -- A suspect in the hit-and-run deaths of a pregnant woman and her husband has been identified, hours after the death of the premature baby the woman was carrying, New York police said Monday. Police said they were looking for Julio Acevedo, 44,...

A baby lives, its parents die, and an Orthodox community mourns

2013-03-03 18:59:00

NEW YORK -- They were a young couple expecting their first baby, so when 21-year-old Raizy Glauber felt queasy, her husband, Nathan, also 21, called a cab to take them to the hospital. At an intersection in Brooklyn early Sunday, their taxi was struck...

'Girls' is back, with flak jackets at the ready

2013-01-06 12:00:00

Aspiring cultural critics of the world, get those pitches ready: "Girls," the show that inspired a thousand think pieces, is back. Created by and starring Lena Dunham, a Manhattan native who shot her first feature film, "Tiny Furniture," fresh out of...

Kristin Chenoweth recovering after 'Good Wife' set accident

2012-07-12 11:12:00

Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth is recovering after a freak accident Wednesday while working on�CBS'� "The Good Wife" in New York. A spokeswoman for the actress told the Associated Press on Thursday that Chenoweth was at home recovering from her injury...

Melvins to attempt Guinness World Record on U.S. tour

2012-06-05 16:37:44

PG; 1:41 running time Checkmate. "Brooklyn Castle," a marvelous documentary by Katie Dellamaggiore, turns a sympathetic camera eye on one of the richest subjects imaginable: the nationally recognized chess team of Intermediate School 318 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a multiethnic wonder of individual

2012-11-01 07:59:00

Williamsburg Bridge, New York City

2012-10-05 13:39:57

The bar, with a gold mirror purchased from an antique shop.

2012-09-11 00:00:00