In Other Brooklyn News

Dozens of Bushwick tenants are unionizing against their shared landlord — claiming the property owner has targeted Black and brown tenants for eviction, up-charged rent-stabilized apartments, and left the buildings in squalor.

Half of the shootings that have rattled New York City this summer happened in Brooklyn or have a strong link to the borough, the NYPD's top cop said Tuesday.

Forty-nine people were shot over the course of 72 hours in NYC between Thursday and Saturday, compared to eight shooting victims over the same time period last year, according to preliminary NYPD statistics sent to Gothamist Sunday morning.

For over 100 years, the Police Athletic League has been operating PAL Playstreets to provide supervised and fun-filled places for children to play safely.

Brooklyn principal Paula Lettiere is tired of feeling like she can't follow through on promises to the families who send their children to her school.

Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and Ted Lieu of California called for the FBI to investigate whether crimes were committed by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy or members of the board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service.

Composer Ted Hearne is known for tackling big social themes through his music. His modern classical works have put a spotlight on issues of race and justice, inequality, natural disasters and other social issues.

For more than 150 years, The Brooklyn Academy of Music has welcomed a wide variety of audiences to enjoy their arts and entertainment. Katy Clark, President of BAM, hails from South Wales, in the United Kingdom and is now making her mark in Brooklyn.

The Democratic lawmaker plans to file paperwork Monday to enter the race to replace Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, joining a growing field of candidates that already includes a pair of term-limited city councilmen.

On a hot summer day, who doesn't like a popsicle? But did you know the original popsicle sprang from the mind of a ten-year-old boy named Frank Epperson? Back in 1905, on an unusually cold San Francisco night, "He had some kind of soda mix in a glass