In Other Brooklyn News

When Julia Charles was pushed out of her Far Rockaway home after Hurricane Sandy, she and her family decided to plant their roots in East Flatbush.

A wedding on Monday in Brooklyn could have brought up to 10,000 guests together near a New York coronavirus hot spot, state officials said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed legislation officially making Juneteenth, a day commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States, a New York state holiday.

On Saturday, Fany Gerson soft-opened Fan-Fan Doughnuts, her new doughnut shop in the same Bedford-Stuyvesant space that originally housed her first doughnut shop, Dough .

Federal authorities in New York have traditionally touted big organized crime and drug-trafficking cases, using powerful racketeering laws to arrest kingpins and dismantle criminal enterprises that drive violence.

For decades, 70-year-olds in search of age-focused housing in New York were often out of luck. A lack of supply sent them to the suburbs.

One of the more unexpected side effects of the pandemic has been a surge in cycling, fueled by people avoiding trains and buses and seeking a way to stay in shape. That triggered an extreme shortage of bicycles. Then came the thieves.

"Grand Army" — the new Netflix series, which premieres Friday — is the name of a fictional high school near, you guessed it, Grand Army Plaza in Prospect Heights.

The federal government is ramping up efforts to prosecute gun crimes in New York City. It's an effort to help curb an alarming number of shootings in recent months, especially in Brooklyn, CBS2's Andrea Grymes reported Wednesday.

Two more ballfields have finished a long-needed update in Prospect Park. The Prospect Park Alliance announced Tuesday that Long Meadow Ball Fields "4" and "5" have reopened following a $1.25-million renovation.