In Other Brooklyn News

Eight people perished due to fires in Bed-Stuy last fiscal year, according to a city agency [...] Click here to view original web page at patch.com

Some readers may remember the Bushwick Open Studios of the mid-2010s — a pulsing event thronged with visitors, popular enough to attract advertisers and corporate sponsorship. After a two-year hiatus, the 16-year-old Bushwick Open Studios [...

A fire Monday morning claimed the life of a man on Midwood Street, near the intersection of Crown Heights and East Flatbush, according to the FDNY. Smoke eaters rushed to extinguish the blaze inside a [...

There’s something different about Little Amal. First of all, she’s a 10-year-old girl, a refugee from the ravages of war in her home of Syria. Second of all, she’s not that little. Actually, Little Amal is a 12-foot-tall puppet.

A Brooklyn high school was placed on lockdown after a 911 caller reported shots fired nearby Monday morning, cops said. Police received a report [...] Click here to view original web page at nypost.com

As New York struggles to find housing for a wave of migrants arriving in the city, Mayor Eric Adams is seriously considering housing them on cruise [...] Click here to view original web page at www.nytimes.com

A candlelight vigil was held in East New York to honor the memory of a construction worker who was killed. Ronnie Ortiz was killed in East New York on Wednesday as he took a lunch break. Friday would have been his 31st birthday.

Two men were shot, one fatally, in Brooklyn early Saturday when a clash over an SUV ended in gunfire, cops said. The shooting took place on E. 37th St. near Glenwood Road in East Flatbush at about [...] Click here to view original web page at www.

The most powerful elected officials in New York had little to say about a blockbuster report from the New York Times into failing Hasidic Jewish private schools. Others ignored the findings, obfuscated, or chose a narrower focus.

Take that, New York Times: A parlor meeting in a Crown Heights home raised $250,000 to fund the transfer of Jewish children from public schools to Chabad's Chassidic Yeshiva education system.