Now that’s a send-off! The recently shuttered Vegas Diner got a starring role in scenes of the upcoming ’80s-set mob drama “The Neighborhood” on June 29. The series has been filming at locations ...

Marchers took to the streets of Bensonhurst on Sunday, Aug. 23 to honor Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old Black teenager who was fatally shot after a mob of white youths attacked him in 1989. The small ...

On the night of Aug. 23, 1989, 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins went with his East New York friends to the predominantly Italian-American neighborhood of Bensonhurst, responding to a used car sales ad. After ...

Yusuf Hawkins was just 16 years of age when an angry mob of Italian-American youth shot and killed him in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn in 1989. On the anniversary of his death this past Sunday ...

One of the more notable figures featured in the new HBO documentary "Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn" is the lone Black man who was part of the largely white mob that attacked and killed ...