In Other Brooklyn News

Developers looking to rezone rapidly gentrifying sections of Ridgewood, Bushwick and Williamsburg now have a rubric to follow if they want to earn the support of the local councilmember.

New York City is taking action after two men accused of plotting to attack a synagogue were arrested over the weekend at Penn Station. MTA Police officers caught the men a few hours after receiving an alert about the suspect.

A group broke into a 21-year-old man’s Brooklyn home and stole several valuable items earlier this month, police said Monday. The suspects entered the victim’s [...] Click here to view original web page at pix11.com

A Brooklyn gang member on trial for killing a high schooler in a stray-bullet Brooklyn shooting dodged murder charges but was convicted on other counts on Monday, officials said.

Firefighters responded to the scene of an apartment fire in Brooklyn on the morning of November 20. The incident occurred at around 9:40 a.m. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

A 38-year-old man was shot dead in Brooklyn on Sunday, police said. Officers responded to East 51st Street near Linden Boulevard around 7:10 p.m. and found the victim, Peter George, suffering a gunshot wound to the chest, officials said.

Brooklyn residents are using air quality and traffic sensors to see how new warehouses affect their community.

A former lawyer who torched an NYPD police car with a Molotov cocktail at a George Floyd protest in Brooklyn was sentenced to more than a year in prison Friday.

Police released a photo of a man they are seeking in connection to a groping incident that occurred last Saturday in Crown Heights. The 23-year-old woman [...] Click here to view original web page at patch.com

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to give up her role leading the House Democrats when Republicans take power next year could pave the way for a brainy hip-hop-loving lawmaker from Brooklyn to become the chamber’s next minority leader. Rep.