In Other Brooklyn News

He's a veteran Democratic office holder who registered as a Republican in the late 1990s. He's a junk food lover who turned vegan. He's an insider with an outsider's sense of grievance.

A Brooklyn toddler died Saturday after being found unconscious in his home, police said. Now, the medical examiner determined his death was likely the result of a history of repeated abuse. Officers responded to a 911 call just after 10 a.m.

Pop Smoke's Green-Wood Cemetery gravesite in Brooklyn was vandalized over the weekend, police said. The report about problems at his crypt came in to the NYPD on Saturday morning, officials said.

A recent high school graduate with dreams of going into law enforcement had his life cut short by an unlicensed drunk hit-and-run driver in a Queens crash, police and the victim's family said.

A Brooklyn man is facing a slew of hate crime charges - and an attempted murder rap - for allegedly assaulting and robbing two men while making anti-gay statements at a Bushwick bodega, authorities said .

A 70-year-old woman fatally struck by a car while sitting on the steps outside her Brooklyn home was the victim of a furious driver trying to run over someone else, police said Wednesday. Brenda Whidbee was mowed down the night of Aug.

Five food delivery workers have died on the job in Brooklyn over the past year, with the most recent just over two weeks ago, according to a scathing new report by the delivery workers collective Los Deliveristas Unidos that details the harrowing wor

For New York City Council Member Darma Diaz, like so many others, an unsafe basement apartment once served as the only attainable option for housing.

A mom living in public housing said she needs to use an umbrella to shield herself and her daughter from leaks in the bedroom and living room. Chinesta Jenkins said the leaks have been a problem in their Albany Houses home for years.

Authorities are investigating after two women were shot in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon. The shooting happened in front of 920 Ashford St., outside the Boulevard NYCHA complex, around 4 p.m.