In Other Brooklyn News

City Council candidates in both Brooklyn and Manhattan have joined forces to shoot down two programs the city is pursuing to expedite much-needed repairs and pump more money into the cash-strapped New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

Crystal Hudson is a candidate for the City Council's 35th District. Last week marked the three year anniversary of the City Council's severely flawed decision to approve the Bedford Union Armory (BUA) development project.

A winter wonderland has opened in Bed-Stuy, complete with coronavirus safety precautions.

Even as a pandemic eviction moratorium shields many New Yorkers, the city's housing agency has ejected scores of tenants from basement apartments and other unauthorized dwellings, records show.

A suspect charged with trying to rape a 14-year-old girl in a shocking caught-on-video attack in Brooklyn has been ordered held on $50,000 bail, officials said Sunday.

A serious crash was caught on camera overnight in Brooklyn. It happened around 12:30 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Bedford and Dekalb avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant . Police said a Dodge Charger drove through a red light, striking a livery cab.

As a Brooklyn, New York native and nurse, Phara Souffrant Forrest, who was recently elected to represent the 57th district in the New York State Assembly, knows the needs of her community.

New York has 20 of the 100 priciest ZIP codes in the nation, but for the first time the city doesn't have a single one in the Top 10.

Brooklyn bookseller Kalima DeSuze wants to be clear — she's not anti-Amazon as much as she's pro-keeping independent retailers alive amid a nasty pandemic that's shut down much of the world's economy.

A heartbroken Brooklyn couple alleges a city-run hospital wrongfully cremated and then lost the remains of their stillborn son — and now they're suing for $10 million. Tiffany Griffith, 38, was at her Bed-Stuy home on Nov.