In Other Brooklyn News

New York City is reducing the amount of time students and staff must quarantine due to possible exposure to the coronavirus, education department officials said Monday.

A pro-Trump mob's unprecedented breach of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday sent New York City's congressional delegation scrambling for safety. One by one, the city's senators and representatives tweeted out they were safe in hiding.

Two round-the-clock vaccination sites will open in New York City this weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday.

Laurie Cumbo's record in the 36th district was front and center during a Jan. 5 forum of the candidates hoping to replace her, with one candidate taking heat for her time working in Cumbo's office.

Personal need often drives the establishment of small, specialized food companies. Corey Hammond, who works in e-commerce and consulting, moved to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, four years ago and missed having a convenient butcher.

The cop who sodomized Abner Louima with a jagged wooden handle in 1997 wants out of federal prison early because of COVID-19.

The former tenants of a Dean Street building are looking to be included in the city's lawsuit against their former landlords, saying the property owners mounted an illegal eviction and harassment campaign against them over the summer.

Hospitals across the state must admit any woman in pre-term labor regardless of their insurance or ability to pay, according to a new law proposed by a Brooklyn legislator.

Permits have been filed for a six-story mixed-use building at 382 Remsen Avenue in East Flatbush , Brooklyn.

An upstate man is the first New Yorker to fall ill with a new, potentially highly-contagious strain of coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.