In Other Brooklyn News

A Brooklyn artist who dedicated his life to beautifying his borough is on a life support — and has yet to regain consciousness — after being beaten with a bat by a panhandler on the same streets he worked to lift up.

New York City police will stay out of many mental health crisis calls and social workers will respond instead in parts of northern Manhattan starting this spring, an official told lawmakers Monday.

It was less a specific dance sequence and more of a stylistic template: a pliant sway, a kind of two-step dressed up with silky swagger.

A new mass vaccination site planned for Medgar Evers College will officially open next Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-use building at 28 Christopher Avenue in Brownsville , Brooklyn.

Nearly one year after the COVID-19 pandemic hit New York, parts of the Big Apple look more like ghost towns, lined with shuttered storefronts, empty office buildings and businesses teetering on the edge of closure.

Tributes continue to pour in for reggae pioneer U-Roy, who died on Wednesday in Kingston, Jamaica.

Scott M. Stringer, the city comptroller, formally declared his candidacy for mayor on Tuesday after months of anticipation.

Manhattan and Staten Island neighborhoods are leading New York City in COVID-19 vaccinations, while the parts of the city hit hardest by the coronavirus — the South Bronx, south and central Queens and central Brooklyn — lag far behind, ac

A yellow note fluttered down like a leaf when I opened the door to my apartment one day last fall. Handwritten, it read in part: "Hello — My package was stolen on 10/1/2020. I came home to find the empty box (item removed) in the trash.