In Other Brooklyn News

FILE PHOTO: Ina Siler, a patient at Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a nursing home facility, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from Walgreens pharmacist Annette Marshall, in Brooklyn, New York, U

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A 44-year-old man in Brooklyn was verbally harassed when an unidentified man, unprovoked, started making anti-Muslim comments at him, the NYPD said Thursday. The incident took place around 7:45 p.m.

A paroled cop killer is back behind bars on charges he assaulted and nearly blinded his girlfriend, authorities said.

There’s also a stand-up show in an ice cream shop and a Caribbean street fair by the East River.

Arrests like that of Brooklyn fruit vendor Maria Falcon could be a thing of the past if reforms unveiled this week stick, advocates say.

A view of the George Floyd headstone at the Say Their Names cemetery at George Floyd Square on May 25 in Minneapolis. Photo: Stephen Maturen via Getty Images People across the U.S.

After years of restrictions, the Lag BaOmer event in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was back and better than ever, with thousands of children enjoying a marching band, fire show and clowns.

Newly-opened Cruz del Sur on Washington Avenue also has some terrific tacos and an amazing beef marrow stew.

EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) -- There were three homicides in three hours in Brooklyn Wednesday, with one of them in East Flatbush. Police say they found a 22-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his stomach on Clarkson Avenue just before 7 p.m.

Brooklyn’s Palestinian community gathered beside the Brooklyn Museum on May 15 to honor the life of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.