In Other Brooklyn News

Sen. Charles Schumer says the COVID relief bill also includes billions of dollars in funding for the MTA . "For subway and bus riders, you know the MTA was running into real trouble. I promised/ I tried to get $4 billion for them.

MTA officials on Monday announced plans to dedicate a Brooklyn subway station to honor Garrett Goble, a motorman who lost his life in March while saving straphangers from a train fire sparked by a crazed arsonist.

Pati Rodriguez grew up in Bushwick, a historically industrial, predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York . She has worked as a community organizer for years, and at 38, she knows the neighborhood inside and out.

A long-awaited project to make the subway station at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Gardens accessible has finished, the MTA announced.

Residents in a Brooklyn building say they have no heat. A group of tenants gathered outside their building on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights on Friday morning.

Feeling under the weather one day, Shelly Marshall found herself with a particular craving: Soursop ice cream. Soursop, a fruit she grew up eating in her native Trinidad and Tobago, draws comparisons to guava, strawberry, and pineapple.

Like many New Yorkers , Monica Rahman found solace in the delicate balance of caring for a houseplant as the world went into quarantine earlier this year.

Christmas approaches this year as the city heads for yet another lockdown, and the holiday season could not be more different from the years past — even Dyker Lights are not shining as bright, in an attempt to keep the virus from spreading.

For months, the COVID-19 pandemic left Brooklyn resident Felix Guzman out of work and unable to keep up with his rent. When he finally secured a job, the pay still wasn't enough to catch up on the arrears that mounted over seven months.

The Brooklyn Democratic Party's first ever virtual full membership meeting went off the rails Wednesday, with party bigs miscounting votes and members pushing them for more transparency during a wild 13-hour Zoom call .