In Other Brooklyn News

Bar owners are calling on the state and city to allow them to offer indoor dining. Celene Rosado is just one of many local restaurant owners calling on the governor and the mayor to start allowing indoor dining in the city.

Jabari Brisport, the Democratic Party nominee for State Senate District 25 covering Fort Greene, Boerum Hill, Red Hook, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Sunset Park, Gowanus, and Park Slope, said this week that he supports a moratorium on public charter schools s

Brooklyn activists, local clergy and elected officials took a stance against gun violence in Flatbush Sunday.

The city should launch an independent investigation of a possible work stoppage by NYPD officers, say a pair of pols from Brooklyn and the Bronx. "Violence, especially gun violence, is heading in the wrong direction.

The family of Brooklyn father and rising rap artist Deshawn Reid are calling for justice two weeks after his unsolved shooting. His mother Hermena Cox told News 12 that Reid was shot in the chest in front of his home on Ocean Avenue.

Jovan Sanchez might've supported defunding the police had his brother not been gunned down on the Fourth of July. "Jamal was a good man. I still wake up every day and I cannot believe that someone killed my brother," said Jovan Sanchez, 38.

A 21-year-old man from Flatbush who is accused of stabbing a police officer in the neck, taking his gun and using it on his partner and other responding officers was indicted on Wednesday for attempted aggravated murder and other charges.

Nearly two-thirds of Crown Heights' 37 public schools have some sort of ventilation problems, a potential roadblock in sending kids back for classes amid the coronavirus pandemic, a new report shows.

Employees and owners of the city's COVID-19 shuttered saloons and eateries gathered Thursday for a Brooklyn protest where they demanded the reopening of indoor dining and the return of their jobs across the five boroughs.

It was a busy Friday night in the spring of 2018 at Friends and Lovers, a Crown Heights bar in Brooklyn that caters to a clientele that is largely Black, people of color, and LGBTQ, and the back patio was packed with people dancing when the police st