In Other Brooklyn News

Mayor Bill de Blasio is one step closer to realizing his goal of adding tens of thousands of units of affordable housing in New York City, after a key panel passed the city's plan to rezone a swath of industrial properties surrounding the Gowanus Can

A Brooklyn man was indicted on murder charges after allegedly causing the death of his girlfriend's 4-year-old son through repeated abuse, prosecutors said.

Last week, Andrea Castellano sent her two kids to school for the first time in 18 months, along with a letter expressing her support for a remote option.

The death of a month-old Brooklyn boy six months ago is now a murder investigation, police said Wednesday. Daquan Vaughn-Sanchez died at SUNY Downstate Medical Center on March 10.

Summer's ice cream trucks could be fading to fall's vaccine vans. New York Gov. Hochul said Tuesday that 120 new popup coronavirus vaccination sites will crop up across New York State, part of a "VaxtoSchool" campaign targeting school-aged youth.

Plans for two Atlantic Avenue apartment towers that started the city's review process on Monday will likely be the latest fuel in an ongoing debate about the future of North Crown Heights.

Police are searching for a Bed-Stuy man who they say strangled a woman in the Bronx earlier this week, according to the NYPD.

Governor Kathy Hochul is visiting a school in Flatbush, Brooklyn this morning as she continues to push her "Vax to School" campaign.

New York City Housing tenants in Crown Heights were more likely to get coronavirus throughout the pandemic than the rest of the neighborhood, new data reveals.

An out-of-control driver injured two construction workers at a Clinton Hill job site roughly one block from where another reckless driver killed a 3-month-old baby in a crime that shocked the city and led to a week of recriminations against the de Bl