In Other Brooklyn News

Jeanne Venus-Aine spends her days working part time as a planned respite crisis counselor. When she's not busy helping people with disabilities, Venus-Aine, 22, looks for full-time employment.

New Yorkers who are 50 and older can now get a COVID-19 vaccine at any city-run vaccination sites without an appointment, city officials announced Saturday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio this week weighed in on the killing of Daunte Wright, a young Black man fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., cop who says she mistook her gun for a taser .

With old financial woes made worse in the pandemic, the Brooklyn Hospital Center is pursuing a shot in the arm — looking to sell and lease portions of its 175-year-old campus to private developers.

A battle rages in Brooklyn's gritty Gowanus neighborhood over a rezoning plan that would add thousands of new residences to what was once a primarily manufacturing and working-class enclave of row houses and warehouses.

At a press conference held at City Hall Park to address the rising toll of gun violence in New York City on Tuesday morning, Iesha Sekou, the founder of the anti-violence group Street Corner Resources in Harlem, told the crowd she had to leave early

Like many New York City charter schools, Brooklyn's Ascend network started off the year fully remote. But just a few months in, it became clear: Remote learning wasn't working for certain students.

In Brooklyn, construction is underway for a 7-mile pipeline meant to reinforce the city's natural gas system.

Council Member Robert Cornegy, Jr. has picked up an endorsement from the city's major transit union in his campaign to become Brooklyn Borough President.

New York's pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is impacting vaccine distribution for some sites. The St. Manuel Baptist Church in Clinton Hill was scheduled to open as a pop-up vaccination site for the Johnson & Johnson dose.