BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Daily News) — An avant-garde video of ants skittering over the crucified Jesus is enraging Christians who say an upcoming Brooklyn Museum art exhibit is sacrilegious. Read More
Katie Nelson
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Construction worker killed in Brooklyn building collapse
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Daily News) — A construction worker was killed Tuesday when the steel skeleton of a Brooklyn condo complex collapsed — because of a boneheaded decision to pour concrete from the top down. Read More
Census shows Asians moving into N-line nabes
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Daily News) — Change is chugging into Brooklyn on the city’s N subway line – the latest train to push immigrants into the borough. Read More
After the Riots: Peace Rules Crown Hts.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Daily News) – Twenty years after riots erupted between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights, newcomers – including hipsters, Latinos and Asians – are calming old racial divisions. Read More
It takes a village to feed Oliver
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Daily News) — A 40-year-old cancer survivor is collecting breast milk from dozens of her neighbors to help feed her 3-week-old son. Read More
No bail for creepy French money man
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Daily News) — A powerful French politician with a sleazy past says he didn’t force himself on a Manhattan hotel chambermaid. Read More
Tangled in Tragedy
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Daily News) — He fell in love with skydiving at 60, an antidote to old age. Over the next decade Theodore (Teddy) Wilson would jump into the sky 545 times. And if anyone thought a 70-year-old man shouldn’t be leaping into the air, Wilson could always point to his pal and fellow skydiver, George Flynn, who was 75. Read More
Polish official’s close escape from disaster
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Daily News) — She could have been on that plane. A top Polish government official who works in New York recounted the horrifying minutes after learning about the plane crash that wiped out her nation’s elite. Read More
Pals’ hit-run horror
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Daily News) — A heroic young City Hall worker was clinging to life after she pushed her college roommate out of the path of a hit-and-run driver bearing down on them, cops said. Read More
Video: Farm Shares
TRUMANSBURG, N.Y. (Daily News) — A family farm north of Ithaca raises hogs on 70 sprawling acres, supplying meat for a program that puts pork on New York City tables. Read More
Love & lies on V-Day
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Daily News) — Ah, Valentine’s day! Romantic dinners. Heart-shaped boxes filled with sweets. And high time for lowdown cheats. Read More
Demons Drove Him to Arson
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Daily News) — The Monster slept among them. A Brooklyn ex-con told cops “demons” made him start the deadly fire that killed five of his neighbors as it swept through his building, fire and police sources said. Read More
Smooth Operator
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Daily News) — The purr of a motor, the wind in your hair. No girl could pass up the chance to get behind the wheel of a . . . Zamboni. Read More
Lead Flies & Thug Dies in Times Sq.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Daily News) — Bullets whizzed through Times Square when a street hustler armed with a fearsome MAC-10 lost a gunfight with a veteran cop as tourists and shoppers screamed and dove for cover. Read More
Property in landmark eminent domain Supreme Court case never used
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation’s most notorious eminent domain project. Read More