In Other Brooklyn News

The shooting death of a beloved Brooklyn man sent shockwaves through his community Monday as gun violence continues to soar in New York City. Wesley Green, 32, was killed in a hail of gunfire around 7 p.m. Sunday on the corner of E. 16th St.

A group of insurgent candidates for district leader — an unpaid position that serves as the governing body of Brooklyn's Democratic party apparatus — have soared to victory as absentee ballots trickled in this week.

Davell Samuel Earl Gardner Jr. would be celebrating his second birthday in September. He'd be grasping his bright red Elmo doll, golden brown Teddy bear with crimson bow and probably watching Teletubbies on TV and playing with his mom.

Kosciuszko Pool in Bed-Stuy has opened its doors a week ahead of its originally-scheduled reopening in August.

Brooklynites in the zip codes covering Crown Heights and Prospect Heights called the city to complain about neighborhood businesses violating the city's coronavirus reopening rules nearly 300 times since the city entered "phase three" of its economic

Katya Libin was 3 years old when her family immigrated to the U.S. from Russia. Her family settled in Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York in the late 1980s.

The other night a watermelon was brought to my table in the backyard of Olmsted , in Brooklyn. The first thing I noticed was its unusually compact size, slightly smaller than my teenage son's head.

New York City now has the capacity to complete 50,000 coronavirus tests a day, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday. "This is the number we've been wanting to get to for quite a while," he said. "We'll now have that capacity.

The victory of an activist over a long-serving state politician might signal that there's more support, even in a devout Brooklyn district, for secular education in religious schools than suspected.

There's more evidence that tipped minimum wages — the practice by which restaurant workers can be paid less than state or federal minimum wages as a result of also receiving tips — can lead to greater racial and gender pay disparity, a ne