In Other Brooklyn News

A 47-year-old man was charged in Brooklyn Federal Court on Tuesday with robbing a Chase Bank on Flatbush Avenue on Tuesday, July 21, less than a quarter mile from Grand Army Plaza, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.

Around the country, alcohol sales are going up. The New York Post reported a 55% increase at the end of March, citing increases in both liquor and wine and beer sales.

It's one thing to announce plans to build a recreation center in East Flatbush, it's another thing to actually put a shovel into the ground and get it built.

Paramedic Steve Kleinberg plans to retire next month after 15 years on the job, even though he hasn't accrued enough time to reach full pension benefits.

New York City police officers, several in plain clothes, swooped into a demonstration against aggressive police tactics on Tuesday and arrested a protester they appeared to have singled out, pulling her into an unmarked minivan before driving off.

Tributes have poured in from across the borough following the death of civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis on July 17. Lewis, who was born on Feb. 21, 1940, succumbed to Stage 4 pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.

Brooklynites looking for a laugh can now find twice-weekly standup comedy shows on the rooftop of The Tiny Cupboard in Bushwick! "Rooftop Stand-Up Comedy Brooklyn: Six Feet Apart Edition" brings socially-distant fun for comedy lovers and cooped-up co

Unlike many other Black Lives Matter rallies that happened across New York City this weekend, a rally on Sunday took place inside the NYCHA Kingsborough Houses Development in Crown Heights to highlight long-standing NYCHA health and safety issues tha

Black and brown communities in Brooklyn face an inordinate concentration of food deserts, where people lack access to healthy, affordable grocery stores and other nutritious options.

In the late 1990s, Arshay Cooper, now of Brooklyn, lived in Chicago, where he starred on America's first all-Black public high school rowing team.