In Other Brooklyn News

The highly anticipated conversion of the Leverich Towers Hotel into a high-end assisted living facility for seniors in Brooklyn Heights is complete, with residents beginning to move into the revamped historic building.

The number of students physically going into the school building has dropped since the start of the school year. Today parents and elected officials are expected to speak out about what they're calling safety concerns at a school in Bushwick.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has your newest quarantine-read. The BP and mayoral hopeful has written a new book detailing his journey from a diabetes diagnosis to a healthy, plant-based lifestyle.

New York is at a critical point. Even as city and state coronavirus positivity rates declined over the summer, officials have been wary of what the fall may bring.

The city's paramedics say a rise in the number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients they are treating is bringing back disturbing memories of the height of the pandemic in New York last spring.

A few weeks into remote learning in June, Alexis Clark decided she was going to send her second-graders a gift.

On the same night that NYPD officers stood by while protesters attacked civilians and a journalist during a Borough Park protest against COVID-19 restrictions, the police department arrested four Black Lives Matter activists in Bedford-Stuyvesant for

Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn went ahead with some indoor and outdoor holiday celebrations in their synagogues Saturday evening, in defiance of restrictions limiting all religious gatherings to 10 or fewer people, in neighborhoods where the rates of coron

More than six months since the pandemic began, the MTA has begun setting up mobile trailers outside some train terminals for workers to use during breaks, in an attempt to provide more social distancing for employees.

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.