In Other Brooklyn News

More than 900 city classrooms repeatedly tested positive for lead paint over the past five years — amounting to what one expert calls a "ticking time bomb" that's waiting to poison kids.

Flatbush residents are determined to derail a project that the developer says is a school but which they believe will be a medical facility located smack in the middle of a residential area.

The city shut down a Brooklyn car service that hired an unlicensed cabbie accused of raping a 12-year-old passenger.

Last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Department of Transportation (DOT), and Lyft announced a momentous five-year expansion of the City's successful Citi Bike program to double the size of the service area and increase the system fleet to 40,000 bike

A 32-year-old man was shot to death in front of his apartment in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon — the killer apparently not caring who saw it or what cameras may have recorded his getaway, according to police.

The Big East on Wednesday joined the growing list of conferences not playing sports in the fall. Affected sports include men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, volleyball and field hockey.

Graffiti is returning to New York City, and Mayor Bill De Blasio (D) refuses to fund the clean-up. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, graffiti covered the city, and street crime was rampant.

Brooklyn's Democratic representatives are expressing excitement over California Senator Kamala Harris' historic vice-presidential nomination, which makes her both the first Black and first Indian-American woman to be picked for the position.

A vigil was held Tuesday for a grandfather struck and killed by a stray bullet while playing handball in Brooklyn. Dozens of family and friends lit candles and left heartfelt messages at Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights .

Since the beginning of the year, rates of reported car thefts in New York City have climbed by 60 percent—the biggest increase of any of the seven major felonies tracked by the NYPD, according to their weekly numbers.