In Other Brooklyn News

Pastor Clinton Brown is no stranger to good watermelon. The self-proclaimed "country boy" started helping his family grow black-seeded watermelon and a host of other crops on their Mississippi family farm when he was just 4 years old.

Hermena Moffatt Cox is a hairdresser who has run her own salon on the corner of Parkside Avenue and Flatbush Avenue for the last 18 years. It's a few blocks from the apartment where she raised her four children.

The COVID-19 pandemic exploded in the New York City over four months ago and, so far, it has claimed 18,979 lives and infected 225,713 people.

To those at Hot 97, the beloved and influential hip-hop radio station in New York, the man known as Paddy Duke was an upbeat and positive presence, working largely behind the scenes but earning frequent on-air shout-outs for more than 25 years.

In 1899, Dean Alvord purchased a 50-acre tract of Brooklyn farmland to develop a new neighborhood, Prospect Park South. He envisioned this community as "rus in urbe," the country in the city.

A cement truck plunged into a sinkhole on Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn Monday afternoon, according to the authorities. The 80,000 pound truck sank into the Flatbush Avenue-bound bus lane near Bond Street just after 1 pm on Aug.

"Rare find," real estate ads often say. But here's something that truly is: data on home sale prices per square foot for an entire borough.

As we approach the six-month mark of the pandemic, the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan are emptying out as young professionals — some newly unemployed, others working remotely — break their leases to move home or to second homes, tr

An organization created during the coronavirus pandemic held a backpack and school supply giveaway in Brooklyn Sunday. It's not where Nicole Whitner and her family would normally go for school supplies.

A young man shot dead on his way to a memorial for another gun violence victim had just welcomed a baby boy two weeks before his untimely death, devastated family members said Friday.