In Other Brooklyn News

Andrew Fine assumed lightning struck when he heard an explosion outside his Manhattan apartment on a recent Friday night.

For the second weekend in a row, the NYPD says two Jewish men were targeted in Brooklyn , and the Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.

When Huge Ma, better known in New York as Vax Daddy, shut down the website he built last year to help city residents make appointments to get a coronavirus vaccine, he realized there were other more established types of public service to pursue.

A protest Friday called for justice for a man who was fatally shot in front of his Cypress Hills home Wednesday. Thousands attended the rally, which was held in front of the mosque of which 36-year-old Modassar Khandaker was an active member.

Mayor Eric Adams got choked up Thursday while discussing the shooting murder of an 18-year-old rapper gunned down in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn last weekend.

Click here to view original web page at greenpointers.com A slew of anti-Semitic incidents occurred this past week in Brooklyn, two of which occurred in Bed-Stuy on February 4. CNN reports that “[i]n the first incident, at around 10:15 p.m.

One man was killed after he was shot multiple times in the chest Thursday afternoon, police said. Another victim was shot multiple times in the leg during the same incident.

Within a blink of an eye, a beloved Open Street in Brooklyn was closed, but not to cars. It raised so many complaints that it is open again to pedestrians only.

A man with dozens of prior arrests was apprehended Wednesday morning for kicking an 89-year-old woman, according to police.

CBS has given a pilot order to “East New York,” a drama series written by William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn.