In Other Brooklyn News

According to New York City's Department of Transportation Cycling in the City program, approximately 900,000 residents cycle through the boroughs regularly with over 510,000 trips made every day.

At the outset of the pandemic last year, two of Ruth Horry's three children got sick with Covid - one of them, just 5, frighteningly so, with a fever that raged for days and required hospitalization.

The majority of the at least 13 New Yorkers killed in Wednesday's historic storm had one tragic thing in common: They were trapped in flooded basement apartments.

At least eight people died in the New York metro area as historic flooding Wednesday evening as the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the New York metro area, trapping people in cars, flooding homes and forcing evacuations of subway cars and station

The torrential downpour that submerged large swaths of New York City on Wednesday night has left small businesses, already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, in a state of flux.

At least seven New Yorkers, including a 2-year-old boy, were killed as record rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida pounded the city, sparking "catastrophic" flooding, officials said Thursday.

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are quickly rising again across the country, mostly due to the delta variant of the virus.

The NYPD will beef up its presence in parts of central and southern Brooklyn over Labor Day Weekend despite the cancellation of most sanctioned J'Ouvert and Labor Day celebrations, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.

New York state's lawmakers voted, once again, to extend a residential and commercial eviction moratorium until January 15th, 2022, with changes to account for two Supreme Court decisions that blocked the state's program and the larger federal morator

Police are still investigating a deadly collision at a Brooklyn intersection on Friday afternoon which claimed a young motorcyclist's life.