In Other Brooklyn News

In March, amNewYork Metro launched an official coronavirus page on its website with a story about Mayor Bill de Blasio encouraging New Yorkers to take additional precautions just days after the first confirmed COVID-19 case was detected in Manhattan.

A man was shot dead and a woman was wounded by a gunshot to her face in separate incidents Saturday in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood, police said. Around 5 p.m., a woman was shot in the face inside 1192 Ocean Ave. in Flatbush, said cops.

Few elected officials seem more eager than Mayor Bill de Blasio to put, as he phrased it, this "God-forsaken" year behind him. But 2020 was not without its lessons for this mayor and for those seeking to succeed him. On Wednesday, Mr.

State health officials are investigating whether an Orange County-based health care facility violated guidelines for the distribution of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine , by sending it to network facilities in New York City that then allegedly administere

As many in the global community, including the Caribbean community in New York, express fear, reluctance or hesitance about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, some Caribbean-born physicians are urging community members to take the vaccine when it becomes a

As we find ourselves in the giving season of this tumultuous year, many Brooklynites may be looking around their community and want to help those in need.

NEW YORK, NY — A few weeks before Christmas, Leslie Jirsa posted a question on her Bed-Stuy neighborhood Facebook group — did anybody know a family in need she could help this holiday? Responses quickly flooded in, but instead of suggesti

Brooklyn Democratic Party reformers walked out of Wednesday's continued full membership Zoom meeting after a party-hired parliamentarian tossed out a slate of progressive reforms passed at last week's infamous 13-hour gathering .

A man wanted in the shooting of a FedEx driver in Brooklyn earlier this month is under arrest. The delivery service driver was shot in the back at the Van Dyke Houses on Dumont Avenue and Powell Street in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn on Dec.

A high-end market will open its first Brooklyn location near the Barclays Center next year, developers announced.