In Other Brooklyn News

Jamal Thom parked outside a recreation center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, N.Y., at 9 p.m. last Tuesday, and slept in his car. Before the coronavirus crippled New York City, he was picking up rides on Uber and Lyft.

At least 75 congregations of different faiths and denominations throughout New York City have been left leaderless over the past two months, with several rabbis, priests and ministers dying as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, The New Yor

Flatbush Hatzoloh Volunteers Responded To 6,500 COVID-19 Calls United For Protection together with Flatbush Hatzoloh will be sponsoring a full day of unity through music.

New Yorkers are temporarily donating their empty homes to out-of-town health care workers who need accommodation during the coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking with an artist friend the other day, she mentioned that the stores in her neighborhood were well-stocked with food—meat, fish, fruits and vegetables, a veritable cornucopia of plenty.

The NYPD is under the gun Wednesday as the Brooklyn district attorney opened a probe into allegations of excessive force in the arrest of people accused of not social distancing .

Cops in Brooklyn have reportedly arrested 40 people for breaking social distancing rules during lockdown—35 were black, four were hispanic, and just one was white.

New York City's subway system went silent in the early morning hours of Wednesday, as part of a plan for the normally round-the-clock system to shut down for train cleaning.

New York City's running tally of reported nursing home deaths leapt 47% to 2,785 as of Sunday, as state officials released a fuller but still incomplete picture of the damage inflicted by coronavirus.

In Israel, where the total death toll as of Tuesday was 238 and the number of new daily infections below 50, the country has significantly eased its lockdown .