In Other Brooklyn News

Sitting on the ledge of a playground in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, Gregg Vance had just overheard two adult basketball players say they weren't plugged into the mayoral race. "You don't know who's running?" he said in disbelief.

All five leading candidates for mayor agreed on Thursday night that New York City should consider renaming sites named for slaveholders .

Every couple of years or so somewhere on Earth, the wanderings of our planet, the sun and the moon cause them to line up like billiard balls on a velvet space table. Seeing worlds disappear behind each other in an eclipse can make you cry or scream.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled Wednesday that a 12-year-old boy who died after his family said he was punched and bullied actually passed away from natural causes.

Eric Adams, who is considered the leading candidate for mayor of New York City, came under intense fire on Wednesday from Democratic rivals who questioned whether he lived in New Jersey or the city and cast doubt on his honesty. Mr.

Cat up a tree? No problem. But a Brooklyn firehouse is under fire for finding a lost dog and returning it to the wrong owner. After spending a long, sleepless night last month searching for his beloved Mini Australian Shepherd, Dwight St.

On many weekdays this time of the year, the Aqua Azul , a 120-foot, four-level private yacht, would be wafting down the Hudson River, past the Statue of Liberty, as United Nations ambassadors marking the arrival or departure of a fellow delegate gorg

Some of New York City's most inventive Shakespeare productions are happening far from Broadway — in a fifth-grade classroom in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

A 22-year-old man died after he was accidentally shot by his friend while they were playing with a gun inside the victim's Brooklyn home — and cops are searching for the pal, sources said Sunday.

Transcript "The M.T.A. wants more cops, we have seen subway crime go way up, and we also have seen ridership not anywhere near where it should be, to where we need it to be to get jobs and workers back in this city.