In Other Brooklyn News

Jovan Sanchez might've supported defunding the police had his brother not been gunned down on the Fourth of July. "Jamal was a good man. I still wake up every day and I cannot believe that someone killed my brother," said Jovan Sanchez, 38.

A 21-year-old man from Flatbush who is accused of stabbing a police officer in the neck, taking his gun and using it on his partner and other responding officers was indicted on Wednesday for attempted aggravated murder and other charges.

Nearly two-thirds of Crown Heights' 37 public schools have some sort of ventilation problems, a potential roadblock in sending kids back for classes amid the coronavirus pandemic, a new report shows.

Employees and owners of the city's COVID-19 shuttered saloons and eateries gathered Thursday for a Brooklyn protest where they demanded the reopening of indoor dining and the return of their jobs across the five boroughs.

It was a busy Friday night in the spring of 2018 at Friends and Lovers, a Crown Heights bar in Brooklyn that caters to a clientele that is largely Black, people of color, and LGBTQ, and the back patio was packed with people dancing when the police st

Responsible leaders in Orthodox communities throughout the New York area and beyond are urging increased caution as new cases of COVID-19 are being reported in their midst.

"If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31, subheading of The Freedman's Torchlight In the early 1800s in New York, political enfranchisement for freed Black people was directly determined by whether or not they owned land.

The Rev. Roxanne Birchfield, 36, a minister of the Evangelical Church Alliance and the founder and owner of Married By Rev.

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.