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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.

The driver accused of killing a 3-month-old baby girl in Brooklyn Saturday should have had his car impounded months ago — but Mayor de Blasio's administration has failed to implement legislation cracking down on the city's most reckless drivers

Police are asking the public's help to find a man who kicked a woman down an escalator at Atlantic Avenue station last week.

Police arrested a driver who crashed into another car and pummeled into a family on a Brooklyn sidewalk on Saturday night, killing a 3-month-old girl and critically injuring her mother.

Twenty years ago, two hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center, killing thousands and forever changing the lives of countless Americans. Click here to view original web page at wgntv.

A citywide crackdown on construction sites sparked by seven fatalities in the first five months of 2021 produced more than 3,600 safety violations and nearly 1,500 stop-work orders, said Buildings Commissioner Melanie La Rocca.