Dead Horse Bay, the National Park Service site where the waves clink with broken glass, is a reminder of New York City's brutal past.

Urban planning was once considered an Olympic sport, and Brooklyn’s Marine Park won a medal. By Jack Goodman.

It’s a cliche of heist movies — that moment when the criminal mastermind runs through his brilliant plan with blueprints and models. Those scenes all owe a debt to George Leslie, one of the greatest burglars in American history. By Geoff Manaugh. (April 10, 2016)

As candidates lavish love on Brooklyn, a WNYC analysis of voter enrollment statistics found active registered Democrats dropped by 7 percent there — the largest decline statewide.

Police are trying to figure out how more than $280,000 was stolen from a Brooklyn bank over the weekend in a burglary that could have been out of a movie. When employees at the HSBC Bank on 13th Avenue in Borough Park opened for business Monday morning, they found a large hole in the ceiling over a vault. Authorities are trying to figure out how the culprits managed to break in without being caught on surveillance camera. Police say more than $280,000 was stolen...

I was finally about to enter the bank. Nii unlocked a plain white door at the end of a dilapidated hallway, and I followed her through the doorway and back in time. We walked though what looked like a manager's office, with oil paintings and wingback sofas, and into the cavernous banking hall.

The charity paid millions in federal stimulus funds to developers shortly after longtime tenants were pushed out. “We are spending federal money to throw low-income New Yorkers out of buildings,” wrote a Habitat whistleblower. By Marcelo Rochabrun.

Perhaps for Freud, Coney Island was America—a realm where fantasy was made material and the pleasure principle ruled. So it is with the bountiful exhibition “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008,” at the Brooklyn Museum through March 13. By J. Hoberman.

The New York accent (also found in New Jersey) is one of the most linguistically strange speech patterns in the country.

The only other person that I had known who possessed a similar charisma to Sunny Balzano’s was my first employer in New York: George Plimpton. Like Sunny, he both stood a head taller than most people and had such a distinctive bearing and manner that in a crowd, one’s eyes would fall on him first and naturally… By Tim Sultan.

It’s time for the Mast Brothers chocolate-makers—and the rest of the artisanal movement—to acknowledge the fakery inherent in their pre-industrial aesthetic. **in case of monthly article limit, open in incognito/private mode**

City law requires any of the animals that are captured to be euthanized in a humane fashion, but many exterminators and homeowners aren’t doing it. By Annie Correal.

Behold, the high wattage Christmas lights of Dyker Heights.

From the album 'Classics' (2006)

From the album 'Classics' (2006)

150 of the building's 200 affordable units are set aside for people making 165 percent AMI.

Several New York police officers have brutally beaten a man they were holding on the floor

For free.

Call it spice, K2, spike, or Flamingo—by any name, it's the cheapest and most dangerous way to get high right now.

An FDNY recruit is getting a third chance to pass the training academy after collecting top firefighter pay for a year in desk jobs, sources told The Post.