In Other Brooklyn News

A Brooklyn man died Saturday as he tried to douse a fire in the bedroom of his NYCHA apartment in Gravesend, authorities said. ... Click here to view original web page at www.nydailynews.

Thousands of people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday as part of an anti-hate rally amid a spate of hate crimes against the Jewish community.

Shashana Davida's Crown Heights home has an open door every Friday night — all guests are welcome for dinner.

As we approach 2020, disaster looms over public safety in New York.

Watch out Starbucks, there's a coffee shop preparing for an expansion! According to the Jarkata Post , Indonesian coffee chain Kopi Kenangan has received funding from Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Serena Williams . ...

Every month in New York, there are a bewildering number of new dishes to eat, drinks to imbibe, and food-themed events to attend. Often, the hardest part is just figuring out what's really worth your limited time.

A for-hire vehicle driver and his passenger are recovering after being struck by bullets in Brooklyn. Police say the shots were fired as the passenger left a party early Monday morning on Jefferson Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section. ...

The stabbing in Monsey during a Hanukkah celebration on Saturday night was the most recent anti-Semitic attack in the New York City area, something that has become all too common over the last few weeks.

A missing Brooklyn senior was last seen on New Year's Day more than six miles from her home, police said. Mary Bumpher, 81, was last seen at 1655 42nd St. in Borough Park around noon on Jan. 1, police said. She lives on Throop Avenue in Bed-Stuy.

Stonewall House, named for the 1969 Stonewall Inn Uprising in 1969 which many consider the kickoff to the modern American gay civil rights movement, is at 112 St.