In Other Brooklyn News

The city is beefing up its efforts to get guns and shooters off the streets. The NYPD will deploy five more of its anti-gun teams to some of the city's most violent neighborhoods.

In the span of roughly one hour Sunday afternoon, police in Brooklyn were chasing down suspects from three separate crime scenes that left a handful of victims who were shot and stabbed. Officers responded to a deli around 3:15 p.m.

A man and woman were found fatally shot in an apparent Brooklyn murder-suicide Thursday morning, police reported.

A teen runs for his life moments before he is shot in a Crown Heights doorway, video released by police Wednesday night shows.

An Ernest Hemingway quote that celebrates the “hunting of man” is plastered on the wall of a Brooklyn police precinct house, according to a photo obtained by Gothamist — and the NYPD is dismissing calls by local officials and advocates to remove it.

City Comptroller Brad Lander and a group of local leaders gathered in front of a Brooklyn luxury development Wednesday and called on Albany to end the controversial property tax break program known as 421-a, citing the need for a broader property tax

The Legal Aid Society, an organization famous for suing other people’s bad landlords, is now suing its own.

To the Citizens Budget Commission, the controversial property tax break called 421-a for developers of new rental buildings, including affordable apartments, is essential to increase the city’s too-small housing supply.

A man was fatally stabbed in a Brooklyn apartment Wednesday after paying a visit to a man who was on house arrest, possibly looking for trouble, police sources said.

Former Brooklyn City Councilmember Laurie Cumbo, who has stirred controversy for remarks decried as anti-immigrant, is set to take over the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, multiple people familiar with the move told THE CITY.