Abbie Fentress Swanson

New York City’s northern-most borough isn’t called the Boogie-Down Bronx for nothing. From hip-hop to salsa to funk to doo wop to rock to folk, the borough is packed with musical talent. We had to make some serious calls about which BX-born musicians would make the cut for our “Boogie-Down Mixtape."

The last night of the eighth annual hip-hop jam in Crotona Park in the Bronx came to a close last Thursday night with a performance by the one of the original rap crews, the Cold Crush Brothers.

A passenger jet plane crashed in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board.

WikiLeaks.org released some 91,000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan on Sunday.

Closing arguments in the Blagojevich case heated up on Tuesday when the defense attorney, Sam Adam, Jr., delivered his closing argument to jurors in the case of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his brother, Robert Blagojevich.

From the Marcy projects to Flatbush to Coney Island, there's no question that Brooklyn has grown some of the world's finest musical talent. But what's an homage to Brooklyn's best without a mixtape? Here are some of my favorite songs from Brooklynites, born and raised.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton held two hearings today on the implementation date of Arizona's new immigration law, which is scheduled to go into effect next Thursday.

Georgia's former U.S.D.A. employee says she is considering a new job at the agriculture department.

Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico are ready to evacuate in the face of a tropical rainstorm brewing.

The bill is being called the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression.

Oil and small amounts of gas are slowly seeping into the Gulf of Mexico floor, but at a rate that scientists are calling insignificant.

The Senate voted 60-40 Tuesday to end a filibuster on a bill that would extend unemployment benefits.

A crash between two express trains killed 61 people and injured at least 125 people in eastern India on Monday.

The Coast Guard wants BP to be more vigilant about detecting seepages along the sea floor.

Sunni insurgents reportedly carried out a double mosque bombing at a Shiite mosque on Thursday in Zahedan, Iran.