Midwood

If you grew up in the New York area in the 1970s and 80s, you probably remember Carole and Paula and The Magic Garden, a super-successful children's television show on WPIX from 1972 to 1984. And now 40 years later, they're back, delighting three...

The family of a Brooklyn man being treated for drug addiction in California traces his problems back to sexual abuse by a yeshiva teacher, when he was just 9 years old. "I do recall the rabbi being over here, trying to hush up my dad," Yosef Werner--the...

A spectacular crash involving a truck and a city bus ended in the near destruction of a city block but fortunately with no serious injuries. The incident unraveled Monday morning in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. Authorities said the bus collided...

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New York State Sen. Carl Kruger pleaded guilty Tuesday to four criminal counts an influence peddling case. Kruger, who broke down in tears during his plea before a Manhattan federal court judge, is accused of unfairly helping a developer, a lobbyist...

New York State Sen. Carl Kruger was sentenced to 7 years in jail after pleading guilty to four criminal counts in the infamous an influence peddling case. Kruger, 62, said that he was "broken" and said that he had destroyed the lives of those close to...

Dr. Ross Joseph Brechner, a mathematician turned ophthalmologist who abandoned private practice for a second career in public health, died Aug. 4 of heart disease at his Catonsville home. He was 71. "Ross was a fine ophthalmologist who changed careers...

Authorities are investigating the possible murder of a coin-shop owner in Brooklyn, whose bloody body was found lying on the ground on East 7th Street near Avenue N in Midwood.   Cops found the unconscious victim, identified as 61-year-old Steven...

Police are investigating and searching for suspects after somebody torched three cars and scrawled anti-semitic symbols on a van and some adjacent public park benches on Ocean Parkway in Midwood, Brooklyn. What's also happening in the wake of this hate...

Just a week after arsonists torched several vehicles, vandalizing them with anti-Semitic graffiti, vandals have struck yet again in another neighboring Jewish community in Brooklyn. According to authorities, vandals struck the Avenue J subway station...

Word has it the pregnant wife of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner is feeling trapped in her marriage, which is reportedly on shaky ground. According to the The New York Post, the close-knit, devout muslim family of 35-year-old Huma Abedin is "furious"...

Word has it that the pregnant wife of Rep. Anthony Weiner is feeling trapped in her marriage. According to the The New York Post, the close-knit, devout muslim family of 35-year-old huma abedin is "furious" with their jewish son-on-law's lewd behavior...