The Murders Down the Hall
393 Powell Street was a peaceful home until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.
393 Powell Street was a peaceful home until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.
Greg Donahue New York Oct 2021 35min Permalink
A dispatch from th Park Slope Food Co-op.
Alexandra Schwartz New Yorker Nov 2019 30min Permalink
Tekashi 6ix9ine was SoundCloud rap’s most notorious star. But the same instincts that made him huge may put him in prison for years
Stephen Witt Rolling Stone Jan 2019 30min Permalink
What happens when your neighborhood, your city, seem to have lost their way?
Robert Sullivan Places Journal Jun 2018 25min Permalink
When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn’s 2003 “grid kid” slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he’d been wrongfully convicted. To prove it, she went undercover, testing her sanity, her marriage, and the justice system.
Christopher Ketcham Vanity Fair Jan 2009 Permalink
He was a college freshman partying in Manhattan for the first. He ran into a woman he knew from college, got separated from his friends, and ended up at a house party full of strangers. By the next morning, his body would be dumped in a Brooklyn driveway. Fifteen years later, the “circumstances of his death remain muddled.”
Alan Feuer New York Times Feb 2018 15min Permalink
The rise and fall of the Seven-Seven - stationed in the war zone of 1980’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn - and how an idealistic young recruit became part of cash-snatching, drug-reselling, renegade clique of cops
Michael Daly New York Dec 1986 30min Permalink
He was a Baptist who became a Muslim, a Marine who became a bank robber, a criminal who became an informant, and a student who became an imam. But was Marcus Robertson connected to the deadliest mass shooting in American history?
David Gauvey Herbert The Atavist Magazine Dec 2016 1h Permalink
In Brooklyn’s Brownsville, being in a gang can mean as little as being born on a specific block. Ackquille Pollard spent his final free days as a viral rap sensation, before being jailed as the leader of a sect of Crips.
Scott Eden GQ May 2016 25min Permalink
Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.
Steven W. Thrasher The Guardian Apr 2016 15min Permalink
How the Mast Brothers fooled people into paying $10 a bar for mediocre chocolate, and how a food blogger was able to figure it out.
Deena Shanker Quartz Dec 2015 10min Permalink
The sailboat dreams of two octogenarian Brooklyn brothers.
Simone Wilson Patch Aug 2015 15min Permalink
Louis Scarcella was a star New York City detective in the ’80s and ’90s, cracking cases no one else could. Now it appears that many of the people he put away were innocent, forced into false confessions and convicted with testimony from flimsy witnesses. Scarcella maintains that he did nothing wrong, despite evidence against him much stronger than in many of his cases.
Sean Flynn GQ Aug 2014 25min Permalink
The postscript of a viral hit.
Leon Neyfakh Rolling Stone Jun 2014 15min Permalink
The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.
Eric Konigsberg New York Jun 2014 20min Permalink
The murder of an Iranian band in Brooklyn by one of their own.
Previously: Nancy Jo Sales on the Longform Podcast.
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Mar 2014 25min Permalink
Memories of the old neighborhood, before everything changed.
Arthur Miller Holiday Mar 1955 25min Permalink
A homegrown boxer sets his sights on the big time.
Brendan O'Connor BKLYNR Nov 2013 15min Permalink
Tyson on his childhood in Brooklyn and the man who changed his life. An excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Undisputed Truth.
Mike Tyson New York Oct 2013 20min Permalink
The story of Kokie’s, and its gentrifying Williamsburg neighborhood.
Vice Staff Vice May 2008 15min Permalink
Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.
Keith Olbermann MLB.com Apr 2013 10min Permalink
How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.
Justin Moyer Washington City Paper Sep 2012 10min Permalink
Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.
Wendell Jamieson New York Times Mar 2013 15min Permalink
How the borough bounced back.
Pete Hamill New York Jul 1969 35min Permalink
New York’s Russian community in Brooklyn.
Peter Pomerantsev London Review of Books Sep 2012 15min Permalink