In Other Brooklyn News

Hattie Carthan was a rare breed — as rare as the huge Magnolia grandiflora flourishing and blooming near her home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, way north of its natural habitat. And Carthan — a transplant herself from Portsmouth, Va.

The massive snowstorm that pelted New York City wasn't enough to tamp down surging gun violence, with six people shot, including a woman struck by a stray bullet that came through her apartment wall, police said Tuesday.

On early Monday morning, police confirmed that an intruder stole six ceremonial crowns from an Orthodox synagogue in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn. As reported by the NY Post, police have video footage showing that at about 1 a.m.

After a chaotic pandemic year, Brooklynites are worried about stability, money, employment, and housing.

The online debate between candidates for the Democratic nomination for borough president sponsored by the Kings County Democratic Committee on Sunday night revealed some very real differences on some of the issues as well as near-unanimity on others.

Back in 1993 when I was rabbi at Oxford and appointed Cory Booker to be our student president of the Oxford University L'Chaim Society — at the time the second-largest student group in Oxford's history — Cory and I understood the importan

The 34th Council District covers the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and crosses the Queens border into Ridgewood.

The grieving fiancee of a medical worker killed in a crash on a Brooklyn parkway is desperately searching for the couple's beloved dog — who is believed to have run off in the aftermath of the wreck.

Worried about the survival of their local restaurants, the Prospect Heights & Brooklyn Neighbors Facebook Group decided to take matters into their own hands.

From logomania to Timberlands, the women who originated these styles on NYC streets deserve to go down in fashion history. Here, they set the record straight. Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team.