In Other Brooklyn News

A Rikers Island inmate choked to death Friday on an orange — and there was no correction officer patrolling the floor of his unit to render aid or call for help, sources tell the Daily News.

The 68-year-old woman allegedly killed and dismembered by a Brooklyn octogenarian and twice-convicted killer died of "homicidal violence," the city's medical examiner said Saturday.

A 29-year-old man was shot in the head inside a Brooklyn deli on Sunday. He was taken from the store to a hospital in critical condition after the shooting, which happened around 5 p.m. on Pitkin Avenue near Wyona Street, an NYPD spokesman said.

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.