In Other Brooklyn News

A number of "hot spots" in Central and Eastern Brooklyn were first on the list this week for a surge of state-led resources officials hope will curb New York's ongoing spike in gun violence. Gov.

COVID-19 cases are increasing in areas of the city that are seeing low vaccination rates. Coupled with growing concern about the delta variant, health officials are fearful the spread could cause pocket outbreaks.

Not long after sounding the alarm about rising gun violence across the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a new jobs program to stem the issue in Central Brooklyn, aimed at preventing crime before it happens.

Inside a sleek new health clinic in one of New York City's poorest neighborhoods, Ramon Jacobs-Shaw is wondering whether his next patient will show up.

The Long Island Rail Road has activated WiFi in Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues — one of the most important stations in the LIRR system.

Gov. Cuomo signed legislation Tuesday repealing an outdated and rarely enforced Empire State law prohibiting barbers and salons from operating on Sundays.

New York's ban on evictions, which was implemented earlier in the pandemic , is set to expire at the end of August. But some smaller landlords say it can't come soon enough.

Residents in a Crown Heights apartment building protested what they call deplorable conditions. The management company says they're committed to making repairs.

Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams wants to decrease gun violence, but he believes Democrats are going about it the wrong way on a national level. While much of the talk about guns in Washington, D.C.

Launched last decade, the low-profile Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation channels the fortune of billionaire couple Joe and Clara Wu Tsai, worth more than $11 billion as of this writing.