In Other Brooklyn News

As a child in Barbados, Joy Thomas took an early interest in food. "I was cooking mud as a little baby, making pies," she said. Once grown and living in the United States, her passion persisted.

Democratic nominee for New York's 25th State Senate on the power of perseverance, peaceful protests, and forthcoming bills on the agenda. "I'm the first queer person of color to ever serve in the New York State Senate.

Residents in Brooklyn held a rally in front of the 88th police precinct Sunday after they said they had encounters with uniformed officers wearing NYPD gear who identified themselves as immigration agents.

Two towers are quickly rising next to each other within spitting distance of the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights.

Brooklyn's immigrant communities are on high alert after a group of plainclothes law enforcement officers, who local watchdogs believe are tied to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, attempted to raid two apartments in Fort Greene and

The suburbs have had their moment. New Yorkers who left at the peak of the pandemic are starting to come back, lured by a range of discounts and a sense, albeit tenuous, that the city is on the mend.

Mayor Bill de Blasio called for immediate consequences Thursday in the "unacceptable" assault of a reporter who was covering a second night of protests in Borough Park about new coronavirus restrictions.

The delay of the hotly contested tax lien sale to November 3 is not enough for an advocacy group in East New York that has started circulating a petition to abolish it all together.

Mass confusion persisted late Wednesday over which city schools would have to close because they are within coronavirus cluster zones designed by state health officials.

Half his face is covered by a mask. And yet, Spike Lee still gets recognized on a walk in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.