In Other Brooklyn News

New York City officials are trying every trick in the book to improve internet access for students living in homeless shelters — except equipping the buildings with working WiFi.

A 73-year-old woman was pushed onto Brooklyn subway tracks by a stranger Monday after her grandson and husband demanded he stop smoking pot on the platform, police said.

Four years ago, the grassroots organization Clean Bushwick Initiative was formed to address the rampant litter problem in Bushwick and its surrounding neighborhoods.

Clinton Hill private school Brooklyn Free School is selling its building on Clinton Avenue and looking for a new home due to financial difficulties amid COVID-19, according to the education facility's executive director.

New Yorkers have increasingly taken to cycling across most East River bridges during the pandemic — but not along the city's most famous span.

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.