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A 911 call drew police to the sidewalk outside a dimly lit construction site on Sterling Pace near Schenectady Ave. at 8:49 p.m., according to police. That’s where officers found the 51-year-old ...
First responders tend to a man injured during a shooting at the West Indian Parade in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 2, 2024.
The parade routinely attracts huge crowds, who line the almost 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) route that runs from Crown Heights to the Brooklyn Museum. The event has its roots in more traditionally timed ...
Woman in costume in the 2009 New York City parade. David Dubinsky, Nelson Rockefeller, and Robert F. Wagner Jr. watch the 1959 Labor Day Parade. Jessie Waddell and some of her West Indian friends started the Carnival in Harlem in Upper Manhattan, New York City, in the 1930s by staging costume parties in large, enclosed places such as the Savoy, Renaissance and Audubon Ballrooms due to the cold ...
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, was killed in an attempted arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.A video of the incident, depicting the officer kneeling on Floyd's neck for an extended period, attracted widespread outrage leading to local, national, and international protests and demonstrations.
Dowd was born on January 10, 1961, in Brooklyn, New York City, the third of seven children in an Irish Catholic family. [5] He grew up in Brentwood, Long Island, on a block mostly populated by the families of police officers and firefighters. [5] According to Dowd, he was a good student in high school. [5]
The annual West Indian American Day Parade stepped off in New York City on Monday with brightly colored costumes, steel bands, flag waving and street dancing. The Brooklyn parade is the ...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the police department's response to a pro-Palestinian street demonstration in Brooklyn over the weekend, calling video of officers repeatedly punching men ...