In Other Brooklyn News

Firefighters worked to get a massive brush fire under control in Brooklyn. The fire broke out just before 3 p.m. Monday, spreading across a few hundred feet of shoreline near Gerritsen Ave and Gotham Ave. in Gerritsen Beach.

A 15-year-old boy was killed while subway surfing in Brooklyn. Citizen App video showed emergency crews at the scene around 6:45 p.m. Monday.

Can't make it to The Big Easy for Mardi Gras? Then throw some beads the Big Apple's way. Admittedly, New Orleans can't be beat for Mardi Gras debauchery, food, drinks and music.

Overall, the average rent increased by 22.35 percent last year, from $2,779 in 2021 to $3,400 in 2022.

Meghan Lalor, a rep for the Parks Department, said the reptile was likely an unwanted pet whose owner decided to release it in public waters.

When he moved in 2014 from an apartment in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights to a house he could afford in nearby Crown Heights, Naftali Hanau, a 37-year-old Orthodox Jewish businessman, suddenly found that, even in a secular and tolerant place like

A traffic light at a busy Park Slope intersection has some pedestrians feeling dangerously out-of-step.

The Panel for Educational Policy has voted to approve a $43 million contract to lock the front entrances of New York City school doors, as well as install cameras and buzzers.

Two NYPD officers were injured when their unmarked car crashed into another vehicle while responding to a call in Brooklyn. 

Brooklyn Uber driver Fritz Sam was recognized Wednesday night at the Ziegfeld Ballroom as the Red Cross’ 2023 Good Samaritan Hero at its “Heroes Among Us” gala.