Tag: Brooklyn
Brooklyn Nets unwilling to give Kyrie Irving long-term extension: report
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Irving played 29 games for the Nets last season, averaging 27.4 points and 5.8 assists per game. Irving must now decide if he wants to pick up his $ 36.5 million player option, which he can decline this summer and ...
One dead after finishing Brooklyn Half Marathon and 15 others injured
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A 32-year-old runner died Saturday after finishing a half marathon in Brooklyn where 15 others were injured, police and fire officials said. An official cause and manner of death should be released in the coming day...
Brooklyn Half Marathon runner dies after collapsing at finish line amid brutal weather conditions
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The 30-year-old runner, who was not identified, was crossing the finish line and collapsed. FDNY spokesperson Frank Dwyer told The Associated Press the runner was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead....
Alleged Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James indicted
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According to the indictment from the United States District Court Eastern District of New York, a grand jury indicted James with carrying out a terror attack against a mass transit system as well as discharging a fir...
Brooklyn Nets’ Ben Simmons scheduled to undergo back surgery
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The Brooklyn Nets announced that Simmons is scheduled to undergo back surgery on Thursday —opting for a microdiscectomy procedure to address lingering pain from a herniated disc injury. Simmons has not played a game ...
House lawmakers demanding answers from MTA on camera malfunction during Brooklyn subway shooting
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In a letter sent to MTA Chairman Janno Lieber Wednesday, nearly a dozen house lawmakers said the Lieber must be more transparent with how the agency uses federal funds to secure the subway system and protect riders. ...
Jayson Tatum hits buzzer-beater to lift Boston Celtics over Brooklyn Nets in Game 1
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Jayson Tatum hit a spinning buzzing-beating layup to clinch Game 1 of the Boston Celtics' first round playoff series against the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday. In what became an instant NBA playoff classic, these two East...
Brooklyn subway shooting: Five people to split $50K reward for tips leading to Frank James arrest
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The New York Police Department, along with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the Transport Workers Union Local 100, and the New York City Police Foundation contributed to the reward, which was announce...
Brooklyn shooting: Bloomberg, MSNBC, Democrats and more hyped less police on subways
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In an April 13 article from Insider, Taiyler Simone Mitchell highlighted criticism of Adams’ plan from some city residents, who claimed that they need better resources, such as investments in housing and mental healt...
Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank James possibly did ‘test run’ of smoke grenades at NYC airfield: report
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In the hours after James was apprehended in Manhattan’s East Village Wednesday afternoon, police received a tip that a white van, possibly a U-Haul, had been spotted early Tuesday at the Floyd Bennett Field, an airfi...
Suspected Brooklyn subway shooter is the ‘very definition of a terrorist’: Former FBI official
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CHRIS SWECKER: It's as if domestic terrorism only exists from the Right side of the political spectrum. When it comes from the Left side, it seems to be ignored. You take over city blocks, you shoot each other — arso...
Inside the 30-hour search for the Brooklyn subway shooting suspect
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A key, a neon construction jacket, a gun. The items, left behind in a bloody crime scene at a Brooklyn subway station Tuesday morning, offered investigators some of their first clues as they worked to figure out who...
Watters asks why FBI, big tech did not have suspect of Brooklyn subway attack on radar
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JESSE WATTERS: Police have arrested Frank James. This is the guy accused of unleashing hell on a crowded subway yesterday morning, shooting 10 and injuring 23 in a flurry of gunfire and smoke bombs. The shooter calle...
Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank James was charged for ‘terroristic threats’ in 90s, court official says
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James, 62, "was charged with two counts of terroristic threats for an incident that occurred in the mid-1990s" in New Jersey, a spokesperson for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed. But at trial in Essex ...
New Yorkers ‘on edge’ after Brooklyn subway shooter manhunt, Malliotakis says, ‘had enough’ of high crime
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Malliotakis' district includes parts of Brooklyn as close as 30 blocks from where the shooting happened. "It's concerning that he managed to escape the train car and the subway station unidentified. And that still 2...
Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank James in custody, ending 24+ hour manhunt; ‘We got him’
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Wearing a blue shirt, dark-colored pants and dark sneakers, Frank R. James, 62, was arrested by the New York Police Department just before 1:45 p.m. local time. He was later escorted out of the NYPD's 9th Precinct st...