Vallessa Monk was 10 when her stepfather, a blacksmith, taught her how to use an arc welder and helped her fashion her first metal sculpture. The piece, a cowboy made of horseshoes, nails, baling wire ...

In many urban areas across the U.S. and abroad, feral, non-native parrots have become established. This is true in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, where a colony of lime green monk parakeets have ...

Brooklynites are used to seeing pigeons and the occasional seagull flying through their skies. It may be surprising to hear that the borough also has a significant parrot population. Specifically wild ...

A Buddhist monk at a temple in Brooklyn managed to fend off two armed robbers with a shelf bracket on Sunday, it was reported. The monk, Bun Sim was sleeping in his third-floor bedroom at the Watt ...

Some 25 years ago, a young lad from Cork City, Ireland had an idea to build a unique bar in a neighborhood in Brooklyn with a rich history of drinking establishments called Bay Ridge. Mick Dorgan had ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US The monk, Bun Sim was sleeping in his ...