In Other Brooklyn News

With more people riding on New York City subways, the city is showing great signs of recovery. However, it comes amid a rise in violent crimes in the transit system.

Fully vaccinated New Yorkers can ditch their masks in most circumstances starting Wednesday as the Empire State adopts guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

President Biden's carefully worded statement on Monday supporting a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians came amid growing pressure within his own party for the United States to take a more skeptical stance toward one of its closest allies.

The family of a Brooklyn business owner is looking for answers after a hit-and-run driver killed the hardworking patriarch as he walked to work last week.

Hundreds of thousands of New York City residents live in so-called food deserts. They're low-income areas — usually Black and Hispanic neighborhoods — without large supermarkets and lacking many options for healthy, affordable food.

A City Council member named Barron has held the seat serving East New York for two decades and is in pursuit of another four years, despite New York's term limits law.

For over a year, Lilah Mejia has spent her days cooped up in her living room, supervising her five school-age children's remote learning on a jumble of iPads and laptops.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the top-ranking Democrat in the city's delegation to the House of Representatives, threw his weight behind fellow political progressive Maya Wiley in her mayoral bid for Sunday.

Two men were shot dead on the streets of Brooklyn and Queens between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning as the NYPD continues to battle a gun violence surge across the city.

An off-duty EMT driving her two sons on an errand in Brooklyn survived a barrage of bullets on Tuesday that ripped through her car — narrowly missing her children and piercing the driver's side headrest.