In Other Brooklyn News

A 16-year-old boy shot behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz in Brooklyn has died, police said Wednesday.

The driver of a U-Haul truck recently pulled up to a dead-end block in East New York, Brooklyn, unloaded hunks of a cut tree — including branches and the chopped-up stump — and drove away.

A Brooklyn family says their loved one showed signs of bruises, scratches, and swelling when visiting her at an East New York nursing home earlier in the week.

Two men and a pregnant woman who say they were beaten by police officers on a Crown Heights street corner last year have sued the city and the cops who attacked them, records show.

Controversial plans for a 23-story tower to rise next to the Brooklyn Music School in Fort Greene were met with little resistance at a public hearing hosted by the Department of City Planning yesterday afternoon.

Tweeting the welcome census-delivered fact that the city's population increased by more than 630,000 from 2010 to 2020, a time during which "the number of housing units in the five boroughs increased by only 206,000," Democratic mayoral nominee Eric

A woman died and a man was injured after a double shooting on St. Johns Place last week, according to police. Emergency responders found the 54-year-old woman, shot in the chest, and the 30-year-old man, shot in the arm, just after 8:30 p.m.

When it comes to affordable housing, the question remains: affordable for who? Two units available through the city's Affordable Housing Lottery in the Bushwick area at 65 Woodbine St . and 65 Graham Ave.

Vaccinations continue to rise in New York City, and Mayor Bill de Blasio is counting on his vaccine mandate to help ensure that the coronavirus doesn't spread among vaccinated people, including people at the city's large scale Homecoming Concert seri

The restart of fully in-person public school classes in less than a month will bring the return of nearly a million students — along with more than 4,000 school safety agents.