In Other Brooklyn News

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez vacated the murder conviction of Sheldon Thomas, who served 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

A Queens man has been charged in a fatal 2022 hit-and-run, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez announced Thursday.

A building in western Crown Heights was evacuated after the FDNY received reports of an unstable building facade, officials told Patch. Early Monday morning, the fire department received reports of a shaky facade at 456 St. Marks Ave.

One celeb-owned home that’s bouncing back on the market? 24350 Bridle Trail, otherwise known as the home of Australian NBA All-Star and Brooklyn Nets player Ben Simmons . Listed for $19.

A Brooklyn man with a trigger-happy criminal history was arrested in the shooting that left two teens wounded near their Brooklyn high school Tuesday.

A 62-year-old man was riding a B44 bus on Nostrand Avenue near Sterling Place when a man and woman approached him, police said.

Mayor Eric Adams is getting involved in a rezoning proposal in Midwood, Brooklyn that faces a tough path to approval due to opposition from the area's City Council Member Kalman Yeger.

A man working as a violence interrupter became a victim of the very crime he was trying to eliminate in his community.

“This is an attempt to get a rent-stabilized tenant out so you can get a market-rate tenant in,” State Sen. Zellnor Myrie said.

There have been no arrests. The investigation is ongoing, police said.