In Other Brooklyn News

Franklin Park — the beloved Crown Heights bar that was a steady favorite among neighborhood residents — closed Sunday night after 12 and a half years in the neighborhood.

Carlotta Williams, 68, looked across Bushwick Avenue where green construction boards surround the Charles Lindemann House, a historic mansion with a gaping hole in its roof.

An East New York man has been charged with sex trafficking of a child, promoting prostitution and rape for the alleged sex trafficking of a 15-year-old girl, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

She was the glue connecting three generations of her family, forever quick with a kind word or a helping hand.

Police aggressively arrested a group of protesters during an anti-eviction protest in Downtown Brooklyn on Friday — including an 80-year-old tenant activist, who cops cuffed and tossed into a windowless van as she was attempting to comply with

Even before COVID-19, Montague Street, the central shopping district in Brooklyn Heights, suffered from a high rate of commercial vacancies and turnover.

The ascendant Democratic Socialists of America is looking to make inroads in the City Council as two-thirds of the chamber's members exit next year because of term limits.

Of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who left the city in the early months of the pandemic, there are a few that Lori Levine van Arsdale won't miss. "One I told directly, if we never meet again, it would be all right," Ms.

The COVID testing process in the city has technically never been more accessible — there are hundreds of free city testing sites across the five boroughs, along with urgent-care facilities.

Nikol Burgos Sevilla works as a server in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood. She says that, since going back to work, she makes approximately two-thirds what she did before the pandemic.