Bedford-Stuyvesant: A 6-month-old baby that died a year ago in his Bedford-Stuyvesant home was murdered, according to the Medical Examiner’s office, which announced the findings of a year-long investigation on the eve of the child’s death. Comment

Crown Heights: A Kings County Supreme Court judge slapped a controversial mixed-use development with a temporary restraining order on April 17, after local anti-gentrification advocates claimed the developer used every trick in the book to avoid having to preform a state-mandated environmental-review process, while the city let them get away with it to pave the way for more affordable housing. Comment

Theater: Happy birthday, Bill! Comment

Is there going to be a pool on top of the landmarked Dime Savings Bank in Downtown Brooklyn? According to a new rendering published this morning in the New York Times, the answer seems to be yes, a new report by our sister publication Brownstoner details. Click to give it a read! Read more…

Canarsie: A plan to make Canarsie streets safer is speeding along. Comment

A woman was found dead in a Cypress Hills hotel Saturday morning. Comment

Williamsburg: Police arrested a man they suspect of brutally murdering one woman and seriously injuring another with an axe at his Flushing Avenue apartment in the early hours of April 20. Comment

Downtown: Police are looking for a man they suspect of robbing two women inside a Downtown bank on Fulton Street last week. Comment

Crown Heights: Cops are hunting for a pair of young punks wanted for allegedly robbing teenage boys amid a string of subterranean heists in Crown Heights on April 17. Comments (2)

Boerum Hill: Members of Community Board 2’s Land Use Committee voted in favor of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to tear down Atlantic Avenue’s House of Detention to make way for a larger jail in order to close down Rikers Island. Comments (2)

Hundreds of protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge April 19 to demand that Gov. Andrew Cuomo reject a plan to build a massive oil pipeline off the Coney Island coast. Comments (1)

Music: This party is right in the swing of things! Comment

Speak Out: Councilman Kalman Yeger spoke truth to power, and power in turn spoke its concept of truth to Kalman Yeger. Comments (6)