In Other Brooklyn News

A woman sleeping inside her boyfriend's car was assaulted earlier this month when a stranger hopped inside and drove off with the vehicle.

A man died from his injuries Friday after he was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn 10 days earlier, according to police.

Two boys â€" a 1-year-old baby and a 6-year-old â€" were seriously injured Saturday when a massive fire erupted in their Brooklyn home and trapped them and their family on the second floor, firefighters said.

Inside Good Room , a nightclub in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, people were dancing to techno, sweating off their makeup and mingling with strangers, while outside, rain poured down on a line of partygoers that snaked down the block.

The royal trumpet mushroom can grow in just two weeks to weigh more than a pound. Chop one up in a food processor and fry it with the right spice mix and the fungi can pack as much umami flavor as chorizo sausage.

The woman arrested in Florida in the execution-style shooting of a Brooklyn woman over the summer has been extradited to New York City to face criminal charges.

The Plaza square is sandwiched between a renovated milk bottling plant, an Applebees, and the Billie Holiday Theatre in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN â€" Local groups and a neighbor  with dreams of a neighborhood therapeutic garden will meet this week to reimagine a lot on Stuyvesant Avenue, according to event organizers.

A new homeless shelter is slated to open in Downtown Brooklyn early next year, bringing 160 beds for single adult men to the facility at 1 Hoyt Street.

The New York City Planning Commission today unanimously approved the River Ring rezoning proposed for the Williamsburg waterfront.