In Other Brooklyn News

The NYC Test & Trace Corps is distributing free at-home COVID-19 test kits to New Yorkers at 14 landmark City cultural sites and 27 branches of The New York Public Library, Queens Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library.

The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating several antisemitic incidents over the weekend. Police say they are looking for several suspects.

The Doe Fund, which provides paid work, housing, and comprehensive support services to formerly homeless and incarcerated men in New York City, has appointed former Brooklyn Councilmember Robert Cornegy, Jr.

New York may be ending its school mask mandate next month. So Chalkbeat asked some experts — New York City students — about what it’s like to wear a mask all day, whether it affects their learning, and if they’re ready to be in school without one.

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.