In Other Brooklyn News

In 2018, the big question on the minds of state political observers was whether or not the Democrats would flip the state Senate. They did , with an impressive majority to boot.

A Brooklyn motorist whipped out a gun in a fit of road rage over a fender bender and opened fire - fatally striking a 58-year-old bystander with a stray slug, police said Wednesday.

A group of Brooklyn parents and activists are pushing the city to provide funding to repair the turf of a Williamsburg park, saying its deteriorated condition is getting dangerous.

The grandson of an elderly woman cruelly shoved off a Brooklyn subway platform by an enraged smoker says he now wishes he didn't yell at the assailant for lighting up.

Eight years after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the five boroughs, the City Planning Commission has introduced a new rezoning plan designed to shore up coastal communities, with particular emphasis on low-lying parts of Queens.

Nonessential businesses remain shut down in red zones, and one soup kitchen in Brooklyn says it is feeling the impact from this. MASBIA Soup Kitchen of Flatbush has several locations, including one on Coney Island Avenue and one in Borough Park.

The air still became crisper, and the leaves still changed from green to gold. But many college towns looked a lot different this fall, their campuses quiet as universities adopted online instruction to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Brooklyn city officials either took to the streets or public forums last week to help frustrated parents and students voice their utter dismay with the school system's COVID-19 response, blasting city leadership, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department o

Cops on Tuesday released a surveillance photo of the suspect they say shoved a 73-year-old woman onto the tracks at a Brooklyn subway station during a wild fight over his smoking inside the station.

Brooklyn educators are demanding that the city continue funding a program that provides struggling students with paid internships and counselors, arguing cutting the program will be disastrous for the thousands of students who rely on it for income a