In Other Brooklyn News

Click here to view original web page at newyork.cbslocal.com COVID-19 vaccinations have hit a wall in the state.

Last month, the New York State Legislature approved an emergency bill to ban evictions for at least two months — preventing thousands of New Yorkers from being booted during the winter amid a raging pandemic.

Detectives in Brooklyn are investigation a pair of separate shootings late Friday night and early Saturday morning that left one man dead and another victim clinging to life. The fatal shooting happened in Fort Greene at 12:25 a.m. on Jan.

Community Education Council (CEC) that represents Ocean Hill, Brownsville, and bits of East New York, has not had a quorum to conduct business since early October, when half of its members resigned in protest over how the CEC was run.

A man arrested in the death of a 78-year-old woman who was found strangled with a telephone cord inside her Brooklyn apartment building is actually a serial killer, police said, charged in three murders in the same complex.

Rita Joseph is a local teacher running to represent her neighborhood — Flatbush / District 40 — in the City Council in this year's election, which will be decided in the June Democratic primary.

This past summer, on any remotely pleasant Saturday night, Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood was a full-on block party. The street was shut down to vehicular traffic.

Middle schools in a diverse corner of Brooklyn will implement admissions changes this year in hopes of creating more integrated classrooms.

Many people, including this writer, go on walks or hikes for recreation.

In an exclusive reveal, new renderings from ODA offer a first look at The Collective 's forthcoming New York City flagship in North Brooklyn.