In Other Brooklyn News

COVID-19 infection rates continue to rise across the Five Boroughs, particularly in low vaccination rate hotspots like Staten Island and southern Brooklyn, according to the latest city Health Department data . The citywide positivity rate rose to 2.

Moped rental company Revel has the green light to launch an app-based car service in New York for its blue-hued fleet — despite a city policy that tried to nip it in the bud. Revel executives said they plan to launch the service Aug.

The Department of Justice has opted not to open a civil rights investigation into New York's government-run nursing homes and whether they violated residents' rights with their handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. It gives Gov.

A bold Brooklyn mugger on a Citi Bike stomped a man unconscious, leaving the victim with a broken nose, before pick-pocketing him and snatching his chain, disturbing video released Sunday shows. The 68-year-old victim was walking along Pitkin Ave.

Residents and representatives of Brooklyn's large and worried Haitian population are asking President Biden to ensure the protection of refugees and relatives in their homeland still reeling from the recent assassination of the embattled nation's pre

Many of America's most infamous gangsters were creatures of New York. I've been hearing stories about the five New York crime families of La Cosa Nostra ( Gambino, Genovese, Colombo, Bonanno, Lucchese) for as long as I can remember.

The long-in-the-works supertall attached to the iconic Dime Savings Bank in Downtown Brooklyn is nearing its apex, making it—before completion—the tallest building in the borough.

For two weekends only, you can take the G to the sea! The city's only subway line exclusive to the outer boroughs will be extended five miles to take northern Brooklynites to the beach for two weekends in August — a "win" for sea-dreaming strap

After weeks of record-low COVID cases, Bed-Stuy's coronavirus rates have started to rise again in recent weeks, part of a citywide trend that health officials have attributed to the spread of the more contagious Delta variant.

They have nowhere else to go, so they come to Sara D. Roosevelt Park. For local residents visiting the Lower East Side greenspace, the park has become emblematic of the time in New York City, rife with homelessness and drug use.