Thirty-five years ago this month, 16-year-old Yusef Hawkins hopped off the 20th Avenue subway in Bensonhurst, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, to view a used car for sale. He would never make it back home.

BENSONHURST, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Just as it was celebrating its 70th birthday, the iconic Lenny's Pizzeria in Brooklyn, made world-famous by its cameo in "Saturday Night Fever," is closing on Sunday.

After nearly 56 years as a tasty Italian hallmark of Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood, Bari Pork Store is cutting its last slice of gabagool on Saturday, June 29. “It feels like I’m losing a big ...

Brooklyn is home to countless treasures, and many can be found in just one Bensonhurst garage. Steve Campanellos’ 12-car garage has throwback items, including old automobiles, old cotton candy ...

A relative of the Brooklyn man shot by NYPD cops after he stabbed his young daughter and three nieces with a meat cleaver had feared he would lose control one day — and kill everybody in the house, a ...

NEW YORK — Brooklyn's Columbus Day Parade marched its way through Bensonhurst on Saturday. The annual event has been a tradition for more than 40 years. Italian flags were waved proudly, both from ...

Bishop Robert Brennan, head of the Catholic Diocese in Brooklyn, welcomed students of St. Athanasius Catholic Academy back for the first day of school on Wednesday, Sept. 6 — a day before public ...

Cornelis van Werkhoven, who worked for the Dutch West India Company, acquired a huge amount of land from the Nyack people in 1652, trading for it with six shirts, two pairs of shoes, six pairs of ...