In Other Brooklyn News

An iconic Dekalb Avenue diner could be the latest restaurant casualty to the coronavirus crisis.

Mr. Samuel Dunston, Sr., the president of National Allotment Insurance and the former chair and co-founder of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's Minority and Women Business Enterprise Committee, has died after a short period of illness.

Dimitrios Fragiskatos, forced to shut down his comic-book store in Brooklyn for almost three months, will remember 2020 as the year he launched an online shop, and regulars from his fantasy game tournaments helped it flourish.

In his 1985 essay "Here Be Dragons," James Baldwin wrote: "At bottom, what I had learned was that the male desire for a male roams everywhere, avid, desperate, unimaginably lonely.

Though signs warned of danger — "Cancer and lung disease hazard" — asbestos-laced anti-vibration cloth in a vent fan system was no threat to 1,000 workers at the MTA's East New York bus depot, an MTA Inspector General report found.

Anyone used to passing by the Court Street Trader Joe's, where these days an interminable line of customers often stretches around the block, may notice someone missing from the small flock of vendors near its entrance.

A man roaming Brooklyn with a machete who attacked a woman and her dog was fatally shot after an encounter with police on Tuesday, according to NYPD officials.

A network of urgent care clinics based in Brooklyn will likely be charged with multiple crimes after an investigation into how it handled a batch of the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

"It was great to be able to have a human connection this Chanukah even though it was socially distanced," says Rachel Friedman, a law student at Brooklyn Law.

The last time I set foot inside a restaurant was Wednesday, March 11.