In Other Brooklyn News

SHELTER SKELTER — First known coronavirus death reported in city's homeless shelter system, by POLITICO's Janaki Chadha: A person in New York City's sprawling homeless shelter system has died from the coronavirus, as the number of positive case

A Downtown Brooklyn development site has fallen into default on its mortgage, raising questions whether the property's specialty lender will suffer losses on the loan at a moment when the economic crisis touched off by the coronavirus has threatened

If someone is out of work thanks to the coronavirus crisis and can't pay the rent or mortgage, what can they do? The situation is changing rapidly so what works today may not apply tomorrow.

On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where, like most New Yorkers, residents are largely staying home as the city reels from the coronavirus pandemic, construction workers building a luxury condominium tower are being forced to continue working in co

A Bedford-Stuyvesant man has been charged with second-degree murder after a fatal building fire left one man dead last week, according to officials.

When New York City schools shuttered March 16 due to the coronavirus, mom-of-two Juliet Raio Silveira was faced with a dilemma: should she continue to have her nanny work for the family as they self-isolate in their one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment? Af

Renderings from S. Wieder Architect offer a first look at a new seven-story mixed-use building in East Flatbush , Brooklyn.

A new vegan Ethiopian restaurant has made its debut in the neighborhood. The new addition to Crown Heights, called Ras Plant Based , is located at 739 Franklin Ave.

Two people were shot, including a woman walking with her son and husband, along a Brooklyn street next to a city housing complex on Sunday afternoon, police officials said.

The organization Equality for Flatbush is looking to "flatten the curve" by creating a fund to help people in need amid the coronavirus pandemic.