In Other Brooklyn News

Even with one person dropping out last week, the City Council District 40 race to replace Councilmember Mathieu Eugene (D-Flatbush, Ditmas Park, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, Midwood, South Crown Heights) is cramped tight.

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 89 units in a 6-story building at 645 Gates Avenue, between Throop Avenue and Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bed Stuy. The building is called The Astra.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday set reopening dates for amusement parks, indoor family recreation centers and summer camps — the latest venues to get a nod as movie theaters in the city remain shuttered.

After nearly a year of the pandemic decimating New York City's restaurant industry, forcing thousands of businesses to close permanently and costing tens of thousands of people their jobs, this month brought a glimmer of optimism.

Last year saw a record number of bias attacks against Asians in New York City, police statistics show — accounting for 10% of all hate crime incidents investigated by the NYPD in 2020.

As New York's working-class neighborhoods shrink, so does the space for keeping pigeons. On a cold, rainy evening in December, a terrified pigeon crash-landed onto a table in the outdoor seating area of a retro-themed bar in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn.

A new vaccination site opens Wednesday at Teachers Preparatory High School in Brownsville, Brooklyn. It is for residents of the immediate neighborhood, and here's why.

A woman riding a Brooklyn subway train became the victim of shocking sex abuse when a stranger ejaculated onto her jacket, cops said Tuesday. The 31-year-old straphanger was on a No. 2 train when she was approached by the sicko just after 4:30 p.m.

New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Amazon of "repeatedly and persistently" failing to provide adequate protection to its warehouse workers in the state, suing the e-commerce giant Tuesday.

From rags to riches. After several months without any of the candidates for Brooklyn Borough President receiving any public matching funds, the top four candidates of 12 running to succeed term-limited Borough President Eric Adams today, Feb.