In Other Brooklyn News

The progressive Working Families Party is wading into Brooklyn's judicial races, endorsing a left-leaning public defender in Central Brooklyn.

Not long ago, Robert Cornegy, a member of the New York City Council, was dubbed the tallest politician in the world. As borough president, he said, he can make the world look up to Brooklyn.

The weather is warmer, the pandemic restrictions are looser and New York City's mayoral hopefuls have wasted no time closing their Zoom screens and hitting the streets to reach voters in person for the home stretch of the race.

Rising East Flatbush rapper Supa Gates has passed away nearly seven weeks after he was shot in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. He was 25.

For over a year, a Brooklyn woman complained to building management that her home's ceiling had been leaking, she said. Her complaints were ignored, she said. Now, it's an emergency situation impacting the health and safety of her family, she said.

Eleven people were shot and wounded over a roughly six-hour span across most of the city's five boroughs Monday. The violence unfolded in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and on Staten island, starting on 145th St. and Jamaica Ave. just before 4:45 p.m.

Memorial Day is not Veterans Day. Today, we honor those who gave what Abraham Lincoln called "the last full measure of devotion," their very lives, in defense of their nation.

A food delivery worker on a motorized scooter fell off his ride and was fatally struck by a car in Brooklyn Sunday night, police said. The 38-year-old man was going east on Atlantic Ave. at about 7:30 p.m.

An FDNY EMT was attacked by a patient in a Brooklyn hospital, leaving him with a broken nose and stitches around his eye, the Daily News has learned.

A construction worker has died after falling from the roof of a historic bank under demolition. The worker fell at the former Flatbush Avenue home of Flatbush Savings Bank just before 8:30 a.m. Thursday.