In Other Brooklyn News

An apartment building on Bedford Avenue was evacuated Monday morning after part of it collapsed, officials said. Part of the facade of the four-story building at 1238 Bedford Ave. fell just after 11 a.m., an FDNY spokesperson said.

Jumaane Williams, the New York City public advocate, could feel the pain in his aging, 44-year-old knee on the hard concrete of Times Square.

Most people spent the spring trying to stay as far away from strangers as possible.

One organization in Bed-Stuy is helping Puerto Rico after Isaias hit the island. "We don't know what to expect. So I don't only really worry about my family, but I'm worried about everyone in Puerto Rico," says Sonia Velasquez.

Con Edison is asking more than 96,000 customers in Southern Brooklyn to conserve power. The power company is working to complete some repairs in the area. Con Ed reduced voltage by 8% while the repair work is underway.

A popular local bar is being accused of violating labor laws by paying a bartender only in tips for nearly all of the five years she worked there, according to a new lawsuit.

A Brooklyn City Council member's decision to oppose an expansion of Industry City that promised 20,000 new jobs and up to $100 million in tax revenue sent shockwaves through the business community amid the economic pandemic plunge.

A Brooklyn man will spend 10 years in prison for violently attacking a Black woman while hurling racist and sexist slurs in 2018, prosecutors announced this week.

Multiple manhole fires set a parked car ablaze and cut power for three apartment buildings in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. Residents were awakened by blasts from the fires on Washington Avenue north of Myrtle Avenue just before 2:15 a.m.

New York City is launching the #GetCountedNYC Census Week of Action to mobilize all households to respond to the census, which has just a 54% self-response rate as of July 27.