In Other Brooklyn News

Less than two years ago, State Senator Julia Salazar was considered the insurgent candidate. A 27-year-old Democratic Socialist, she challenged Brooklyn's Democratic establishment and won.

Just over two weeks after the NYPD violently suppressed peaceful protests around New York City, police early Monday morning responded to reports of illegal fireworks in a Brooklyn neighborhood with dozens of officers in riot gear — who blocked

Rep. Yvette Clarke stood behind the podium at the Salem Missionary Baptist Church in the heart of Flatbush, Brooklyn. It was Martin Luther King Jr.

Parks and playgrounds in New York City are the new battlegrounds between Mayor Bill de Blasio and frustrated frum Jewish residents in Williamsburg and Crown Heights.

Brooklyn Tea has been open-ish, as the owners like to say, throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Now, the Crown Heights couple is taking steps to accommodate customers with health regulations in place.

Permits have been filed for a eight-story residential building at 952 Bedford Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant , Brooklyn.

Meadow Partners and Slate Property Group have officially sold 1 Flatbush Avenue's residential component to Goldman Sachs, Commercial Observer has learned. USAA Real Estate provided $57 million in acquisition financing in the deal.

In New York's 25 th State Senate district, Democratic Socialist Jabari Brisport is running to be the first out LGBTQ person of color in the New York State Legislature. "Representation really matters," he told LGBTQ Nation.

Volunteers painted a "Black Lives Matter" mural on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street this past weekend — and the block will become a pedestrian plaza during the summer months, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.

Brooklyn's Juneteenth celebrations this year will be marked with special significance as a growing lists of protests are being planned in support of Black Lives Matter.