In Other Brooklyn News

Katya Libin was 3 years old when her family immigrated to the U.S. from Russia. Her family settled in Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York in the late 1980s.

The other night a watermelon was brought to my table in the backyard of Olmsted , in Brooklyn. The first thing I noticed was its unusually compact size, slightly smaller than my teenage son's head.

New York City now has the capacity to complete 50,000 coronavirus tests a day, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday. "This is the number we've been wanting to get to for quite a while," he said. "We'll now have that capacity.

The victory of an activist over a long-serving state politician might signal that there's more support, even in a devout Brooklyn district, for secular education in religious schools than suspected.

There's more evidence that tipped minimum wages — the practice by which restaurant workers can be paid less than state or federal minimum wages as a result of also receiving tips — can lead to greater racial and gender pay disparity, a ne

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city's Taskforce on Racial Inclusion and Equity launched a new mediation program for tenants and landlords struggling with rent-related issues because of the COVID-19 pandemic, his office announced on Tuesda

One man was injured when hundreds of pounds of concrete facade collapsed off of a Brooklyn supermarket on Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said.

In April, as cheers for essential workers were becoming a 7 p.m. staple, St. James Place in Clinton Hill turned into a dance floor.

On April 14, 60-year-old Leonard Carter died of COVID-19 while incarcerated at Queensboro Correctional Facility. He had already been granted parole and, after a quarter century behind bars, was just weeks from his release date.

Growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Kiana Muschett-Owes treasured one spot above all: the family's round dining table.