Topic: Kings County Hospital

Nine people shot in 12 hours in Brooklyn

Nine people were shot in Brooklyn between Sunday night and Monday morning - 12 hours of bloody mayhem that left three men dead.. . Four of the...

Slain in social club drug dispute

Two men were shot, one fatally, after a drug-related argument inside an illegal social club in Brooklyn, cops said.. . Chayse Washington, 28, was...

Lover's jealous ex stabs man to death

A man was stabbed to death in Brooklyn Thursday night by his lover's jealous ex.. The 37-year-old was eating dinner with his girlfriend at El...

Student talks to mom after 5-story fall

A 19-year-old architecture student who survived an accidental fall from the roof of a five-story Brooklyn building was well enough yesterday to...
Details of the funeral arrangements landed online Saturday (July 9) evening.. A funeral service was held Saturday for the cousin of rapper Nicki...
Firefighters rushed through a wall of flames to rescue an elderly couple Thursday after an early morning blaze ripped through their Brooklyn...
A Brooklyn hospital where a patient died in a waiting room will undergo improvements mandated by a consent decree and five years of court monitoring to end years of neglect and overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, advocates for the mentally ill who had ...

Evolution in psych

The recently increased development of new psychiatric hospitals, coupled with an emerging conviction that effective treatment should recognize the biological basis for these diseases, has created a rapidly changing building type with several strongly discernible design and planning trends. Notable among the ...
Family of woman who died unassisted on NYC hospital floor settles suit for $2M, awaits answersThe family of a woman who died on a hospital floor, struggling to get up while staffers ignored her, has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city ...

In Plain Sight, A Woman Dies Unassisted on Hospital Floor

On June 19, a woman collapsed and lay face down on the floor of the waiting room at a Brooklyn hospital for an hour before anyone checked on her. Kings County Hospital disclosed the event the next day, but it wasn't ...