Crime Is Creeping Up in East New York

The neighborhood has the most rapes, murders, robberies, and felony assaults of anywhere in the city.

In the Rockaways, Safe Swimming Is a Luxury, Not a Right

Nasty razor teeth in Chelsea, bank-on-biker discrimination in Windsor Terrace, lifeguard inequality in the Rockaways … and other bad tidings to make you angry and anxious in today's bitter boroughs report.

Edgar Allen Poe’s House to Get More Ravenlike

It's July, which comes in like a candy-bearing Park Slope kiddie Evangelist! Or a rappeling, stalking obsessive UWS construction worker! Or a long-dead writer whose Bronx getaway's getting a face-lift! Or … well … just read today's boroughs roundup!

Scarlett Johansson Will Lay Her Head in Sutton Place

ScarJo buys a Sutton Place postwar, Billyburg and Greenpoint wait for their parks, and guilty liberal Slopies' rage toward Greenpeace panhandlers finally boils over. That and more in today's boroughs report.

The Look Book Comes to the 'Shwick

Kingsbridge may get the next fancy public toilet, Bushwick gets it own look book, and the Slope could get veeery stinky this summer. All in our daily boroughs report.

Hide the Anecdotes: James Frey Is in Soho to Stay

Frey buys more in Soho, stained glass lingers in Bay Ridge, and Bed-Stuy sales are in the toilet in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.

That Amazing House From ‘Moonstruck’ Is Still Up for Grabs, Only Now It's Cheaper!

Nature Gets Scary in Prospect Park