In Other Brooklyn News

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.

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.