In Other Brooklyn News

During the pandemic businesses have struggled to stay afloat—imagine how difficult it would be to open a neighborhood business in the midst of the pandemic.

Here are the current applications open for the affordable housing lottery in Brooklyn. While most are not much less expensive than market-rate housing, there are a few worth applying to. To apply please click here .

In a move stretching beyond his administration, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced yesterday that this will be the last year of the Gifted and Talented (G & T) program, in which four-year-olds take verbal and n

The NYPD says it will expand a small but widely-praised Brooklyn policing experiment that swapped cops for community support on a two-block stretch in Brownsville.

The Department of Buildings say the owner of a Bed-Stuy brownstone has been issued a violation for illegal construction after a fire displaced three families and injured a firefighter on Monday.

The Trump-supporting son of a Brooklyn judge who dressed like a caveman to storm the U.S. Capitol last week was arrested in New York on Tuesday, authorities said — and his big mouth did him in.

New Yorkers that live and work in shelters, as well as storefront facing grocery store workers, can get the COVID-19 vaccine, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday, as more members of the state vaccination group 1B become eligible for the shot.

The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) presented a 2020 "Made in NY" Award to Jeffrey Wright, the Tony-, Emmy-, AFI- and Golden-Globe-winning actor, philanthropist, and proud resident of Brooklyn, whose organization, Brooklyn For Life!

A high-ranking NYPD official accused of secretly posting racist comments on a law enforcement message board has retired from the Police Department.

There were two homicides on Sunday in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, a sad sign that the struggles with gun violence that plagued the neighborhood last year are spilling over into 2021.