In Other Brooklyn News

An off-duty FDNY firefighter pulled over in Brooklyn for driving a BMW with excessively tinted windows sped off after he was caught with an unlicensed gun â€" only to crash as he jumped out of his car, police said.

A dirt bike rider was hospitalized after colliding with an NYPD SUV at a busy Brooklyn intersection Tuesday, authorities said. The 38-year-old rider was going east on Linden Blvd. just after 3 p.m.

New Yorkers elected Eric Adams, a retired police captain, former state senator and two-term Brooklyn borough president, as the city’s 110th mayor on Tuesday â€" hoping he can lead a metropolis of 8.

Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 360 Shepherd Street in East New York , Brooklyn.

New Yorkers were on track for a new constitutional right to clean air and water, thanks to a ballot proposal that appeared headed for passage.

Today, Tuesday, Nov. 2, marks NYC election day. Across the city, residents who didn’t vote early will be hitting the polls to cast their ballots for mayor, borough president, comptroller, City Council, public advocate and more.

The family of a 24-year-old Brooklyn man shot to death in broad daylight on the block where he lived told the Daily News Monday he was murdered by a friend.

Winston Williams has spent nearly three decades behind the wheel of a commuter van - better known as a dollar van, because it used to cost $1 to ride. It's $2 these days. "The demand is not out here as it used to be.

The New York City Marathon, one of the world’s largest marathons, is back. This year’s race will be smaller, with 30,000 runners instead of the usual 55,000.

Heartbroken relatives of the 7-year-old girl killed while visiting her mother’s Bronx home over the summer demanded “justice” Monday night as the child was finally laid to rest .