In Other Brooklyn News

As hundreds of Rikers Island correction officers took sick leave last year, coronavirus raged, detainees died, officers who did show for work pulled double and triple shifts, and elected officials called working and living conditions at the island’s

A club promoter shot in the head as he tried to calm an angry gunman during a Brooklyn hip hop party last week has died of his wounds, police said Thursday.

On Thursday, Gov.

On a recent morning, the Regal UA Court Street in Brooklyn was uncharacteristically quiet.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to combat the rise in gun violence by reinstating a controversial plainclothes police unit. Past complaints included racial profiling and excessive force.

In the days following the deadliest New York fire in the last 30 years, it became painfully clear that existing safety laws failed to protect the residents of Twin Parks North West in the Bronx.

Beloved Queens chile fried chicken pop-up Pecking House is moving its operation to Kings County. Taiwanese-American chef Eric Huang shut down his Fresh Meadows kitchen at the end of last year.

A baby girl just two days shy of her first birthday was shot in the head and critically injured by a stray bullet on a Bronx street Wednesday night, police sources said.

Mayor Adams slammed his own police department Wednesday for engaging in “all this showy stuff” instead of directing more cops to the neighborhoods that need them the most.

Detectives are busy investigating three separate Brooklyn shootings between Monday evening and early Tuesday morning that left one man dead and another fighting for his life. Police said the homicide happened in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 5:45 a.m.