In Other Brooklyn News

Eleven people were shot and wounded over a roughly six-hour span across most of the city's five boroughs Monday. The violence unfolded in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and on Staten island, starting on 145th St. and Jamaica Ave. just before 4:45 p.m.

Memorial Day is not Veterans Day. Today, we honor those who gave what Abraham Lincoln called "the last full measure of devotion," their very lives, in defense of their nation.

A food delivery worker on a motorized scooter fell off his ride and was fatally struck by a car in Brooklyn Sunday night, police said. The 38-year-old man was going east on Atlantic Ave. at about 7:30 p.m.

An FDNY EMT was attacked by a patient in a Brooklyn hospital, leaving him with a broken nose and stitches around his eye, the Daily News has learned.

A construction worker has died after falling from the roof of a historic bank under demolition. The worker fell at the former Flatbush Avenue home of Flatbush Savings Bank just before 8:30 a.m. Thursday.

When the city rezoned the north Brooklyn waterfront under then-Mayor Bloomberg in 2005, officials promised a sprawling riverside green space almost the size of Fort Greene Park as a sweetener for the impending residential development boom along the f

Scott Stringer's mayoral campaign seemed all but over less than a month ago. In a matter of days, after a former campaign volunteer leveled sexual assault allegations against him , most of his high-profile supporters abandoned Stringer.

With five weeks remaining until the June 22 primary elections, the stage is set for the competitive race to become Brooklyn's next borough president.

For nearly a decade, New York City has struggled to help homeless people find apartments of their own, as rents hovered in the stratosphere and the number of people stuck in shelters surged past 60,000.

From the pop appeal of Coney Island to the high-key glamour of the Hamptons, New York City beaches offer a different kind of seaside experience.