In Other Brooklyn News

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday appointed Nancy Pascal, an organizer, social worker and Fort Greene resident, as director of the Office of Faith and Community Partnerships.

A construction backhoe that backed over a hardworking Brooklyn nurse, killing her Friday, belonged to a Con Edison subcontractor, officials said Monday.

Beneath a noisy 3 train stop in Brooklyn, kale, bitter melon, and okra grow on a half acre of land. This is East New York Farms, an urban garden in a predominantly Black neighborhood, overseen by 25-year-old Iyeshima Harris.

An 83-year-old woman on her way home from grocery shopping fought off a robber in a Brooklyn subway station who made off with only a loaf of her bread, police said.

Juan Escobar was 12 and skinny when he first went to a Y.M.C.A. summer camp . He weighed only 65 pounds, often didn't get enough to eat and had chronic asthma.

Around the country, COVID has hit communities of color hardest, both inflicting new devastation and highlighting bitter, longstanding truths about the public health system.

It's hard to say what Bushwick will look like in October, but it appears that its future will involve the Bushwick Film Festival returning for a 14th round.

As the pandemic stretches into its second year, the need for mental health services has only heightened. On the streets of New York City, those who treat patients in need of life-saving care are presented with several challenges. Dr.

Six of New York's most left-wing legislators called this week for the impeachment of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. On Tuesday, State Sens.

An influential founder of a Brooklyn safety patrol sexually abused a teenage girl for several months in his home, at a summer house in upstate New York and at a hotel in Chicago, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.