In Other Brooklyn News

This Sunday evening, Brooklynites will have the chance to comment on the controversial new City Council redistricting plan at Medgar Evers College. The hearing, one of five around the city, will take place between 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

A driver going in reverse down a Crown Heights street struck and critically injured a pedestrian, then drove off, according to officials. The victim, 36, was crossing Pacific Street near Buffalo Avenue around 2:45 p.m. Sunday when she was hit by a [.

When you think about pizza, it doesn't take much time for New York to come to mind. There's a historical reason 'za and the Big Apple are inextricably linked.

A man sitting on a Brooklyn park bench was critically injured when a tree branch fell and hit him in the head, police said Sunday. The victim was relaxing in Reinaldo Salgado Playground on Monroe St. near Patchen Ave.

A police officer was slashed while making an arrest on a subway platform in Brooklyn. Police say the Housing Authority officer had chased an emotionally disturbed man into the Myrtle-Willoughby Avenue station in Bed-Stuy around 11:15 a.m. Sunday.

Insider's Lauren Edmonds (left) moved to Brooklyn after living in Orlando, Florida. I currently live in Brooklyn, but there are things I miss about living in the Sunshine State.

From spring into summer, the Ukrainian military was pummeled by Russian artillery in eastern Ukraine, steadily losing ground and as many as 200 soldiers a day in a mismatched, head-to-head contest.

One of the many pieces of art installed on Lincoln Place, named the Greenest Block in Brooklyn on Aug. 10. It’s official: Lincoln Place between New York and Nostrand Avenues in Crown Heights is the Greenest Block in Brooklyn.

Hilton Webb, a formerly incarcerated man, addresses the crowd in front of City Hall during a Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022 press conference on the city's "fair chance" housing bill. (Staten island Advance/Paul Liotta) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.

A man was found dead early Friday morning inside a garbage compactor in Brooklyn. The FDNY responded shortly after 4 a.m. to a building on Gates Avenue near Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant.