In Other Brooklyn News

In March of last year, Dolly Meckler, like so many others, decided to try her hand at sourdough. "And then I read a recipe," she told me the other day, "and I saw this thing called starter, and I was, like, 'Hell no.

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Samantha DiStefano closes her Mama Fox restaurant and bar for Sunday dinner and all of Monday because she can't hire enough workers to cover those shifts.

Police in Brooklyn launched an investigation Thursday after a man was struck by a van while crossing the street and left for dead, according to the NYPD.

For the past 25 years, New Yorkers feared a return to the "bad old days" even though the stats told a different story. Crime continued to go down. Every mayor since then declared the city safer than before.

Prospect Heights' Open Street on Vanderbilt Avenue is about to get supercharged, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

For the second time this election cycle, Gothamist/WNYC reporters fanned out across the city to talk to voters.

An NYPD officer was shot three times after approaching a gun wielding man minutes after a nearby fatal shooting and crash in Brooklyn last night.

Outside City Hall on a recent afternoon, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams stood in a pinstripe suit and tie beside Abner Louima, who'd been badly beaten and sexually assaulted by NYPD officers in 1997.

Three teenagers are hospitalized, one in critical condition, after the stolen car they were in struck a police cruiser and slammed into two vehicles, including a box truck. It happened at around 2:30 a.m.

Home prices in the United States have risen dramatically in large swaths of the country, but the same can't be said for all rentals.