In Other Brooklyn News

One organization in Bed-Stuy is helping Puerto Rico after Isaias hit the island. "We don't know what to expect. So I don't only really worry about my family, but I'm worried about everyone in Puerto Rico," says Sonia Velasquez.

Con Edison is asking more than 96,000 customers in Southern Brooklyn to conserve power. The power company is working to complete some repairs in the area. Con Ed reduced voltage by 8% while the repair work is underway.

A popular local bar is being accused of violating labor laws by paying a bartender only in tips for nearly all of the five years she worked there, according to a new lawsuit.

A Brooklyn City Council member's decision to oppose an expansion of Industry City that promised 20,000 new jobs and up to $100 million in tax revenue sent shockwaves through the business community amid the economic pandemic plunge.

A Brooklyn man will spend 10 years in prison for violently attacking a Black woman while hurling racist and sexist slurs in 2018, prosecutors announced this week.

Multiple manhole fires set a parked car ablaze and cut power for three apartment buildings in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. Residents were awakened by blasts from the fires on Washington Avenue north of Myrtle Avenue just before 2:15 a.m.

New York City is launching the #GetCountedNYC Census Week of Action to mobilize all households to respond to the census, which has just a 54% self-response rate as of July 27.

A 47-year-old man was charged in Brooklyn Federal Court on Tuesday with robbing a Chase Bank on Flatbush Avenue on Tuesday, July 21, less than a quarter mile from Grand Army Plaza, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.

Around the country, alcohol sales are going up. The New York Post reported a 55% increase at the end of March, citing increases in both liquor and wine and beer sales.

It's one thing to announce plans to build a recreation center in East Flatbush, it's another thing to actually put a shovel into the ground and get it built.