In Other Brooklyn News

Police arrested a 44-year-old homeless man Saturday on murder charges in a Brooklyn man’s rooftop death. Solomon Samuel, 44, was found unconscious and unresponsive on the roof of a Brownsville Houses building on Thursday night, police said.

A longstanding Brooklyn gang feud erupted anew with the gunshot slaying of a Brownsville man on his way to Sunday dinner with his mom, aunt and baby son, police sources and relatives said.

New York City's progress against gun violence is facing a major setback as a new and troubling trend emerges in the wake of shootings across the five boroughs.

On Sept. 26, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the creation of a relief program for undocumented persons who were affected by the floods and storms generated by the remnants of Hurricane Ida .

Police officers with the NYPD's animal cruelty investigation squad made a stunning and disturbing discovery inside a Brooklyn home on Thursday, where 20 dogs were found in a vile animal hoarding scene.

A 19-year-old man sitting on a Brooklyn stoop was shot in the head Thursday evening when two gunmen opened fire on him and some friends, police sources said. The victim and his friends were on Prospect Place near Ralph Ave.

Citing food inequity among the borough’s minority population, a local nonprofit has opened an urban farm in Brownsville to provide healthy food to the local community, which suffers from high rates of diseases resulting from poor diet.

A Brooklyn woman has been charged with killing her infant son, police said Thursday.

A 16-year-old boy was chased down a Brooklyn street and fatally shot on Wednesday night, police and sources said. The victim, Jaden Turnage, was shot in the chest on Monroe Street near Franklin Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 6:15 p.m.

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is officially exploring a run for governor , but he will not have to look far to see how his path to victory begins in his home borough of Brooklyn.