In Other Brooklyn News

An NYPD officer opened fire on a suspect in Brooklyn on Thursday night, striking the man in the leg, police said. The officer was in the area patrolling after two men were shot nearby earlier in the night, NYPD Chief of Patrol Jeffrey Maddrey said.

A fire broke out this morning at an Eastern Parkway building, according to fire officials. At just before 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning, FDNY said they [...] Click here to view original web page at patch.com

A plan to close much of the BQE during three weekends next year and divert traffic onto local streets has met with some real opposition in the Windsor Terrace and Kensington areas, published reports say. As the Brooklyn Eagle [...

A 17-year-old girl was shot and killed after being an unintended victim of a gunman who opened fire in Brooklyn, police said. Bullets started flying outside an apartment building on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights around 6 p.m., according to police.

The website of Key4All warns: "if you find it you can drive it! But so can anyone else with a key." As of this writing, there is a car sitting on the corner of Church Avenue in Brooklyn, apparently in the parking lot of a Burger King, that is [...

After more than a decade of wrangling that likely precipitated the downfall of at least one powerful Brooklyn politician, the city is finally moving ahead with building low-income housing in five buildings across three city-owned [...

A secret society founded to help enslaved people escape the antebellum south is shedding a century's worth of secrecy in hopes of saving its home in Bedford Stuyvesant, the group president told Patch. Click here to view original web page at patch.com

City lawyers want an NYPD sergeant’s nickname barred from testimony in an upcoming Brooklyn Federal Court trial accusing five cops of wrongful arrest. Sgt.

Don't live on the "right" side of Union or Fifth Street? According to a new ranking released of schools across the country, you might be better off.

A man was shot in the foot near Bed-Stuy's Marcy Houses Monday night, police say. The shooter squeezed off a shot from a black Jeep near [...] Click here to view original web page at patch.com