In Other Brooklyn News

Anything short of a revolution won't satisfy Charles and Inez Barron, the married Brooklynites who hold seats in the State Assembly and City Council, respectively, and the police reforms and city budget passed in the wake of recent widespread Black L

A 53-year-old man playing handball at a Crown Heights park was shot in the head on Sunday during a shootout between two warring groups, authorities said.

On a recent June afternoon, an ambulette crew dropped off 68-year-old Jacquelyne Pierre at her building in Brooklyn's Walt Whitman Houses after she'd finished an exhausting session of dialysis. But there was one problem — or rather, two.

Drivers of for-hire vehicles in the city are being warned about an armed man is targeting them. There have been at least seven robberies, all of them in Brooklyn , CBS2's Dave Carlin reported Sunday. He wears a mask and he has a gun.

Zenzile DaBreo-St. Hilaire, a kindergarten teacher in Brooklyn, has a response to those who attack teachers for being reluctant to return to the classroom amid the pandemic.

As New York slowly reopens, many residents have noticed a disturbing return to normal: The rats are coming back, too.

Shot in Paris prior to the pandemic, the accompanying video features the Brooklyn rap trio in X-ray form — partying, riding in cars and counting money.

The other day, as I spoke to the chef Michelle Williams by phone, she paused to explain a faint beeping. "Oh, sorry, that's a timer," she said cheerfully. "I've got a poundcake in the oven.

City landmarks gurus on Tuesday approved revised designs for a 23-story residential tower with an extension of the Brooklyn Music School at its base at 130 St. Felix St. in Fort Greene. At a virtual hearing on Aug.

Gyms are gone, and we don't know when they're coming back. But that's not stopping Brooklyn residents from finding other ways of staying in shape.