In Other Brooklyn News

Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and Ted Lieu of California called for the FBI to investigate whether crimes were committed by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy or members of the board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service.

Composer Ted Hearne is known for tackling big social themes through his music. His modern classical works have put a spotlight on issues of race and justice, inequality, natural disasters and other social issues.

For more than 150 years, The Brooklyn Academy of Music has welcomed a wide variety of audiences to enjoy their arts and entertainment. Katy Clark, President of BAM, hails from South Wales, in the United Kingdom and is now making her mark in Brooklyn.

The Democratic lawmaker plans to file paperwork Monday to enter the race to replace Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, joining a growing field of candidates that already includes a pair of term-limited city councilmen.

On a hot summer day, who doesn't like a popsicle? But did you know the original popsicle sprang from the mind of a ten-year-old boy named Frank Epperson? Back in 1905, on an unusually cold San Francisco night, "He had some kind of soda mix in a glass

More than 900 city classrooms repeatedly tested positive for lead paint over the past five years — amounting to what one expert calls a "ticking time bomb" that's waiting to poison kids.

Flatbush residents are determined to derail a project that the developer says is a school but which they believe will be a medical facility located smack in the middle of a residential area.

The city shut down a Brooklyn car service that hired an unlicensed cabbie accused of raping a 12-year-old passenger.

Last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Department of Transportation (DOT), and Lyft announced a momentous five-year expansion of the City's successful Citi Bike program to double the size of the service area and increase the system fleet to 40,000 bike

A 32-year-old man was shot to death in front of his apartment in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon — the killer apparently not caring who saw it or what cameras may have recorded his getaway, according to police.