A teenage girl stabbed a 13-year-old boy several times in the Brooklyn subway over a heated argument. This is reported by the police, who are now looking for a criminal. At about 6 pm, the guy and the girl were on the train approaching the Ralph Avenue metro station, when a fire broke out between them ...
Brighton Beach is perhaps the most famous Russian-speaking area in the USA. It is also called “Little Odessa”. According to various estimates, between 50 and 70 thousand Russian speakers live here today. A ForumDaily journalist spent one day with local residents of Brighton Beach to find out how this...
The cost of renting housing in New York is off the charts. For those who pay more than 30% of their income to rent, there are special state programs that allow them to rent an apartment much cheaper than market value. ForumDaily found out what affordable housing programs are operating in New York, who can accept ...
The owner of six clinics in New York, Alexander Burman, pleaded guilty to fraud with state insurance “Medicare” and “Medicaid”. The total damage amounted to $16 million. This became known at the court hearing, which took place in the federal court of the Eastern District, reports nydailynews.com. According to…
Senator Chuck Schumer called on the US Department of Justice to make it a priority to resolve the issue of extradition from Australia of Abakar Gadiev, who is accused of murdering Vladimir Tolstykh, co-owner of the Brighton Bazaar supermarket in Brooklyn. In 2009, 35-year-old Tolstoy, father of four children,…
The owner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Brooklyn Nets, Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, realized that not everything in the NBA can be bought with money. He spoke about this in an open letter, the text of which is provided by the Yahoo portal. Prokhorov acquired the Nets in 2009...
Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Her name is familiar to most Russian-speaking readers around the world and has become synonymous with amazing, amazing and honest books that are unmatched. Her works have long been included in the category of those that in no case should be missed. Her sincere ...
Boris Nayfeld, nicknamed Baba, was arrested in the United States on charges of extortion. This was reported by bbc.com. A native of Gomel is a representative of the so-called first generation of the “Russian mafia” in America. This is not the first time Nayfeld has been included in crime reports. So, in 1994...
Maxim Grinberg, a native of Ukraine and the owner of two optics stores in Brooklyn, is accused of fraud in obtaining loans. He spent the money received from the fraudulent scheme on expensive restaurants, casinos and gifts for his mistress. In the materials of the Brooklyn prosecutor's office it is said that Greenberg with his ...
Some stores in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill have opened "dog parks." It's no secret that most shops in the city prohibit customers from bringing their pets, and this creates problems for both owners and those around them. Dogs are often tied ...