In Other Brooklyn News

One officer had his honesty on the witness stand questioned by two separate judges in 2011. The next year, the NYPD busted him for asking colleagues to engage in ticket fixing .

On a sweltering July afternoon, a homeless man named Melvin Douglas biked up to his sleeping spot beneath the High Line, the elevated, art-filled New York park overlooking the Hudson River, and found that a city cleanup crew had thrown away his posse

Today's housing lottery round-up features three buildings in Brooklyn's Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods with available affordable units on Housing Connect with deadlines closing within the next seven days.

A last-minute attempt from developers to offer a shorter version of controversial apartment towers planned for Franklin Avenue came in too little too late for city planners slated to vote on the plans, according to officials.

Brooklyn homes are selling like the borough's famous cheesecake, according to StreetEasy, spending a median of 50 days on the market in the second quarter.

Former southern Brooklyn Councilmember Chaim Deutsch was sentenced Thursday to 3 months in prison and 1 year of supervised release, along with $107,000 restitution to the government and a $5,500 fine in relation to federal tax fraud charges.

Following in the city's footsteps, New York is making vaccinations or regular COVID testing mandatory for all state employees. Additionally, all patient-facing frontline health care workers in state-run hospitals must be immunized, Gov.

New York's stalled rent relief program has started sending checks to a handful of landlords whose tenants have missed rent payments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Gov.

The Coalition for Community Advancement, along with several other local organizations, came together last Thursday to discuss East New York's industrial business zone (IBZ) and how to grow local jobs that the city and the NYC Economic Development Cor

Shortly after Eric Adams won the Democratic mayoral primary with support from some of the city's poorest communities , he received a call from an unlikely source.