In Other Brooklyn News

The 20-year-old woman was waiting on the northbound No. 3 train platform at the Van Siclen Ave. station in East New York when a man suddenly pounded her in the back about 2:50 p.m. Saturday, cops said.

The storefronts on Nostrand Avenue between Gates and Monroe streets have been shuttered for two weeks since a three-alarm fire broke out on Feb 7.

COVID-19 cases continued to tumble across the Five Boroughs last week — a decrease that reflects the higher number of New Yorkers vaccinated against the virus. The latest data from the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shows that 85.

Brooklyn gang members who clutched cash and bragged in an online rap video "unemployment got us workin' a lot" have been arrested for a scam to embezzle $24 million from federal job-loss relief funds, prosecutors announced Thursday.

New York City mayor Eric Adams held a summit with a group of drill rappers on Tuesday night and clarified he doesn’t actually want to ban their music, days after he appeared to blame the music scene for the recent shooting deaths of two young New Yor

A man fatally stabbed his roommate during a fight inside their Brooklyn apartment on Thursday night, police and sources said. Officers responding to a call of an assault at 641 Crown St. in Crown Heights at about 7 p.m.

A Crown Heights man who attacked an Asian woman as she was walking to the store has been charged with a hate crime, according to prosecutors.

At one point, Urban Assembly Unison middle school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn was considered a low-performing school with disruptive and violent incidents among students with distrust in staff.

New video shows two suspects breaking into a Brooklyn home, where they allegedly stole thousands of dollars. It happened Tuesday afternoon near Avenue I and East 49th Street in the Flatlands neighborhood.

Mayor Eric Adams met with drill rap artists Tuesday night after criticizing the music genre for contributing to the rising violence in the city. But as CBS2’s Aundrea Cline-Thomas explains, the rappers and the mayor were able to come to an agreement.