In Other Brooklyn News

Juan Chonillo, a 44-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant, was working on a luxury Manhattan skyscraper in September 2017 when he plummeted 29 stories from a scaffold to his death.

A family of five has been living without heat in their apartment for four years despite making dozens of complaints to their landlord.

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced new affordable housing projects in Brooklyn and said she hopes to step up construction of low-cost housing to the rest of the state beginning [...] Click here to view original web page at www.wxxinews.org

The man accused of shooting passengers at random on a Brooklyn subway in April intends to plead guilty to terrorism charges, according to court documents.

The largest-ever Menorah parade to celebrate Chanukah will head out from 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights to New York City today.

The parks department has unveiled designs for the future Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in East Flatbush. The Center – featuring a pool, teaching kitchen, and more — is expected to be completed in 2025 [...

The city will shell out $3 million to the mother of a mentally ill teen killed in a hail of police bullets after NYPD officers mistook a hairbrush for a gun, the Daily News has learned. Five cops fired 20 bullets at Khiel Coppin, 18, on Nov.

Republican Assemblyman-elect Lester Chang repeatedly declared, “I’m a Brooklynite!” during a heated legislative hearing Wednesday where Albany Democrats tried to prove he did not meet residency requirements in a bid to stop him from taking office.

An NYPD officer was shot in the right foot and a suspect was shot twice in the leg in Brooklyn Wednesday morning, according to the NYPD.

Ricardo Barreras has been feeding his neighbors the Cuban classics of his youth since he opened the original Pilar Cuban Eatery, a shoebox of a spot on Classon Avenue, back in 2009. That tiny Pilar became [...