In Other Brooklyn News

It’s a beloved holiday tradition! Jewish residents from around the Five Boroughs gathered on Sunday to kick off Hanukkah, which marked the second time the holiday fell during the COVID-19 pandemic â€" though this year’s festivities took a far mor

When Shari Broomes learned her 2-year-old daughter Mikhaila Bonaparte had dangerously elevated levels of lead in her blood, she did what any parent given bad health news about their child would do: She did research. She visited websites.

A woman was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn by a homeless man apparently enraged she had been too close to his tent in a makeshift Bedford-Stuyvesant encampment, police said Monday.

An 18-year-old man is fighting for his life after being shot in the head at a Brooklyn deli on Saturday night, police reported. Law enforcement sources said the incident happened at about 6:05 p.m. on Nov.

More than a decade ago, a 7-year-old vanished while taking out the garbage. Sunday marked Patrick Alford’s 19th birthday. He disappeared from the Spring Creek Development on Vandalia Avenue in East New York on Jan. 22, 2010.

Omicron variant prompts new US travel ban on South Africa, other nations The United States’ ban on non-citizen travel from South Africa and seven additional African nations began on Monday, Nov.

As a teenager growing up in East New York, Brooklyn, in the 1980s, I would wake up every school day and get on the subway. An hour later, I would get off in Manhattan in a very different New York City.

Find the latest information on the COVID-19 pandemic in New York state and New York City, including data on positive cases and other indicators, and information from local officials.

The New York City Council on Tuesday approved a plan to upzone an 82-block swath of Gowanus, delivering a late-term land use victory for Mayor Bill de Blasio and paving the way for a long-debated transformation of the Brooklyn neighborhood.

Friday, Nov. 26 Cookie decorating class: It’s the most wonderful time of the year, indeed â€" and the sweetest! Join Sahadi’s at Industry City for an hour-long cookie decorating class that comes with a kid’s hot chocolate and a goodie bag.