In Other Brooklyn News

New York City's progress against gun violence is facing a major setback as a new and troubling trend emerges in the wake of shootings across the five boroughs.

On Sept. 26, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the creation of a relief program for undocumented persons who were affected by the floods and storms generated by the remnants of Hurricane Ida .

Police officers with the NYPD's animal cruelty investigation squad made a stunning and disturbing discovery inside a Brooklyn home on Thursday, where 20 dogs were found in a vile animal hoarding scene.

A 19-year-old man sitting on a Brooklyn stoop was shot in the head Thursday evening when two gunmen opened fire on him and some friends, police sources said. The victim and his friends were on Prospect Place near Ralph Ave.

Citing food inequity among the borough’s minority population, a local nonprofit has opened an urban farm in Brownsville to provide healthy food to the local community, which suffers from high rates of diseases resulting from poor diet.

A Brooklyn woman has been charged with killing her infant son, police said Thursday.

A 16-year-old boy was chased down a Brooklyn street and fatally shot on Wednesday night, police and sources said. The victim, Jaden Turnage, was shot in the chest on Monroe Street near Franklin Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 6:15 p.m.

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is officially exploring a run for governor , but he will not have to look far to see how his path to victory begins in his home borough of Brooklyn.

Police are searching for two suspects who stole a school bus, then crashed it into parked cars in Brooklyn . According to police, two people stole the bus from Canarsie around noon after the driver left it parked with the keys in the ignition.

Bishop Robert J. Brennan, Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, has been named by Pope Francis to be the eighth Bishop of Brooklyn. The announcement was made on Sept. 29 in Washington, D.C., by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.