In Other Brooklyn News

Cops believe this is the suspect who asked a teen girl for oral sex and threatened her when she refused in Flatbush on Wednesday night.

A Brooklyn driver who fatally struck a motorcyclist before his car overturned purposely rammed his victim after having a heated fight a few minutes before the crash, police said Saturday. Derrick McCarthy, 27, is facing murder charges for the Oct.

A fire tore through an apartment building in Brooklyn on Sunday, killing a young teenager and injuring several other tenants. Firefighters responded to a residential fire call at around 10:30 a.m.

Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One [...] Click here to view original web page at www.nytimes.com

Just after 9PM, two people were shot on East 46th street and Avenue K in Flatlands section of Brooklyn. Two people were killed and four others were wounded in separate shootings in The Bronx and Brooklyn Saturday night, police said.

A new pedestrian plaza is now open in Brooklyn. Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez and other city officials took part in a ribbon-cutting Saturday for the new Underhill Plaza in Prospect Heights.

Reports show that injuries stemmed from a traffic collision in the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn. It happened on Friday night, January 20 th , on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

As if we didn’t have enough reasons to clean up the Superfund superstar that is Newtown Creek, a pair of dolphins were spotted in the Whale Creek Tributary, which runs alongside the Newtown Creek Nature Walk.

Two off-duty officers from a Bed-Stuy police precinct were said to be observed having sexual relations inside a personal vehicle in the station's parking lot, according to a report in the New York Post.

Restaurant Week kicks off on January 17. The event, which is no longer one week, but closer to one month, offers lunch and dinner deals at some of North Brooklyn’s best restaurants.