In Other Brooklyn News

Tributes have poured in from across the borough following the death of civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis on July 17. Lewis, who was born on Feb. 21, 1940, succumbed to Stage 4 pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.

Brooklynites looking for a laugh can now find twice-weekly standup comedy shows on the rooftop of The Tiny Cupboard in Bushwick! "Rooftop Stand-Up Comedy Brooklyn: Six Feet Apart Edition" brings socially-distant fun for comedy lovers and cooped-up co

Unlike many other Black Lives Matter rallies that happened across New York City this weekend, a rally on Sunday took place inside the NYCHA Kingsborough Houses Development in Crown Heights to highlight long-standing NYCHA health and safety issues tha

Black and brown communities in Brooklyn face an inordinate concentration of food deserts, where people lack access to healthy, affordable grocery stores and other nutritious options.

In the late 1990s, Arshay Cooper, now of Brooklyn, lived in Chicago, where he starred on America's first all-Black public high school rowing team.

The shooting death of a beloved Brooklyn man sent shockwaves through his community Monday as gun violence continues to soar in New York City. Wesley Green, 32, was killed in a hail of gunfire around 7 p.m. Sunday on the corner of E. 16th St.

A group of insurgent candidates for district leader — an unpaid position that serves as the governing body of Brooklyn's Democratic party apparatus — have soared to victory as absentee ballots trickled in this week.

Davell Samuel Earl Gardner Jr. would be celebrating his second birthday in September. He'd be grasping his bright red Elmo doll, golden brown Teddy bear with crimson bow and probably watching Teletubbies on TV and playing with his mom.

Kosciuszko Pool in Bed-Stuy has opened its doors a week ahead of its originally-scheduled reopening in August.

Brooklynites in the zip codes covering Crown Heights and Prospect Heights called the city to complain about neighborhood businesses violating the city's coronavirus reopening rules nearly 300 times since the city entered "phase three" of its economic