In Other Brooklyn News

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the top-ranking Democrat in the city's delegation to the House of Representatives, threw his weight behind fellow political progressive Maya Wiley in her mayoral bid for Sunday.

Two men were shot dead on the streets of Brooklyn and Queens between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning as the NYPD continues to battle a gun violence surge across the city.

An off-duty EMT driving her two sons on an errand in Brooklyn survived a barrage of bullets on Tuesday that ripped through her car — narrowly missing her children and piercing the driver's side headrest.

In March of last year, Dolly Meckler, like so many others, decided to try her hand at sourdough. "And then I read a recipe," she told me the other day, "and I saw this thing called starter, and I was, like, 'Hell no.

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Samantha DiStefano closes her Mama Fox restaurant and bar for Sunday dinner and all of Monday because she can't hire enough workers to cover those shifts.

Police in Brooklyn launched an investigation Thursday after a man was struck by a van while crossing the street and left for dead, according to the NYPD.

For the past 25 years, New Yorkers feared a return to the "bad old days" even though the stats told a different story. Crime continued to go down. Every mayor since then declared the city safer than before.

Prospect Heights' Open Street on Vanderbilt Avenue is about to get supercharged, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

For the second time this election cycle, Gothamist/WNYC reporters fanned out across the city to talk to voters.

An NYPD officer was shot three times after approaching a gun wielding man minutes after a nearby fatal shooting and crash in Brooklyn last night.