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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. â€" The victim of a police-involved shooting in Brooklyn committed “suicide by cop,” an investigation by the NYPD has determined.

Happy Wednesday, Ditmas Park-Flatbush! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening locally today. First, today's weather: A touch of morning rain. High: 46 Low: 29.

(Howard Simmons/New York Daily News) Police officers shot and wounded a man who came at them with a knife on a Brooklyn street early Monday, the NYPD said. The officers responded to Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave. after someone called 911 at 4:10 a.

The recent rise in Covid cases has caused some New York City restaurants and bars to temporarily shut down.

Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2018, at a rally asking Albany to expand speed cameras This story is part of Gothamist/WNYC’s series, “Grading de Blasio,” which assesses the mayor’s performance during his tenure.

As COVID-19 cases surge in New York City, Mayor de Blasio announced today that 23 new testing sites will open in the city this week, including three mobile centers.

A man was fatally shot by police responding to a report of an armed person in Brooklyn. The man was shot by officers at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue in Crown Heights at around 4:10 a.m. Monday.

Brooklyn community leaders huddled in the blistering cold at the entrance to Canarsie Pier on Dec. 19 to say they will not be forgotten in their pursuit of fast ferry service.

New York’s incoming mayor just made history by appointing a Black woman to run the nation’s largest police department, and already there are attempts to undermine her authority.

The symptoms of the common cold are typically a stuffy head, the sniffles and body aches. Now, this season, there’s a new one: panic.