In Other Brooklyn News

A father of three knifed to death outside his Brooklyn apartment building was remembered Tuesday as a neighborhood do-gooder who was about to move to Texas to be closer to family.

Borough President Eric Adams gave the thumbs down to a proposed 18-story residential building on the site of a drive-thru McDonalds at Atlantic and Vanderbilt avenues, citing the project's height and density.

The sun finally rose for 200,000 "Summer Rising" kids Tuesday — and was a mixed blessing of excitement, jitters and relief for their families, teachers and camp leaders after a chaotic rollout of the city's class-recreation blend.

Maya Wiley, a former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio and a former commentator on MSNBC, is in third place by a small margin after the early rounds of ranked-choice voting tabulation.

Despite his biblical name — or maybe because of it — one woman had suspected there was something not quite right about the homeless man who confessed to killing her Brooklyn neighbor.

A mail carrier is recovering after suffering several broken bones in his face. Police said he was assaulted by at least two men on dirt bikes and they remain at large, CBS2's Natalie Duddridge reported Wednesday.

This Fourth of July, Iyabo Boyd did two things that she said would have been unthinkable a year ago. She went to a barbecue in a stranger's yard, and she met new people. Reading on a blanket in Franz Sigel Park in the South Bronx on Monday, Ms.

After a year lost to the coronavirus, New York City's most well-known Fourth of July traditions were back Sunday.

Two men were critically hurt in a pair of shootings in Brooklyn and the Bronx about an hour apart Sunday night. In Brooklyn, a 40-year-old man was shot in the arm and torso at about 9 p.m. on Central Ave. near Cornelia St.

Fans hungry for the return of the annual hot dog-eating contest on Coney Island relished their chance to cheer on contestants back in Brooklyn for the 105th annual competition on Sunday.