In Other Brooklyn News

Put your Big Apple in the Big Belly! The first Smart Composting Bins in Brooklyn are in Bed-Stuy, according to residents who were pleasantly surprised to discover the public [...] Click here to view original web page at patch.com

An elderly grandmother killed in a Brooklyn hit-and-run had a daughter who was killed in a similar crash 10 years earlier, the woman’s devastated family said Thursday. “It wasn’t her time,” the daughter told the Daily News. “She had no health issues.

An employee was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery at a Dollar Tree in Brooklyn Wednesday night. Police say the incident happened around 8:40 p.m. at a Dollar Tree located at 679 Van Sinderen Avenue in East New York.

A former East Flatbush United States Postal Service worker has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for postal theft [...] Click here to view original web page at www.brooklynpaper.com

What better way to kick off 2023 with a public workshop about a long-awaited rezoning along Atlantic Avenue? On Jan. 17, the city will host a virtual workshop for the Atlantic Avenue Mixed [...] Click here to view original web page at patch.com

Railroad Pizza , a new Kosher Neapolitan Pizza Shop located at 227 Kingston in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, has just opened its doors to the [...] Click here to view original web page at collive.com

A 79-year-old man is clinging to his life after police say two men walked into his Brooklyn jewelry store and nearly beat him to death during a robbery. Manny Cohen has owned Roxy Jewelry Store on Flatbush Avenue for 25 years.

New York Cancer & Blood Specialists (NYCBS), one of the fastest-growing community oncology practices in the nation, today announced the opening of a new comprehensive cancer care practice in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn in collaboration with

 Isaac Hager recently lost his stakes in two high-profile properties to bankruptcy sales.

The results are in from the Department of Transportation's Grand Army Plaza Public Realm Study survey, and an overwhelming majority indicated an appetite for big changes to the clogged artery of Brooklyn. Just over [...