In Other Brooklyn News

One of the best ways to support neighbors in need is to donate to your local community fridge. Community fridges can be easily located using the community fridges map . When donating, it is important to follow the rules of the community fridge.

A trio of teen girls on an anti-Semitic hate crime spree in Brooklyn smacked around two small boys and a teenager, police said Tuesday. The hateful teens targeted strangers wearing traditional Orthodox clothing in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.

Bishop Robert Brennan is set to be installed as the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn. Timothy Cardinal Dolan, and Archbishop Christophe Pierre will officiate the mass at the co-cathedral of Saint Joseph in Prospect Heights.

It’s a beloved holiday tradition! Jewish residents from around the Five Boroughs gathered on Sunday to kick off Hanukkah, which marked the second time the holiday fell during the COVID-19 pandemic â€" though this year’s festivities took a far mor

When Shari Broomes learned her 2-year-old daughter Mikhaila Bonaparte had dangerously elevated levels of lead in her blood, she did what any parent given bad health news about their child would do: She did research. She visited websites.

A woman was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn by a homeless man apparently enraged she had been too close to his tent in a makeshift Bedford-Stuyvesant encampment, police said Monday.

An 18-year-old man is fighting for his life after being shot in the head at a Brooklyn deli on Saturday night, police reported. Law enforcement sources said the incident happened at about 6:05 p.m. on Nov.

More than a decade ago, a 7-year-old vanished while taking out the garbage. Sunday marked Patrick Alford’s 19th birthday. He disappeared from the Spring Creek Development on Vandalia Avenue in East New York on Jan. 22, 2010.

Omicron variant prompts new US travel ban on South Africa, other nations The United States’ ban on non-citizen travel from South Africa and seven additional African nations began on Monday, Nov.

As a teenager growing up in East New York, Brooklyn, in the 1980s, I would wake up every school day and get on the subway. An hour later, I would get off in Manhattan in a very different New York City.