In Other Brooklyn News

A smooth-talking, sharp-dressed con artist scammed two Brooklyn women out of thousands of dollars, police said. He talked one woman into giving him $3,300 with a tale about church donations, authorities said.

Few places in New York City cater to the needs children with disabilities may have while ice skating — but on Friday the rink at Prospect Park will be one of them.

A coalition of North Brooklyn residents and environmental groups are fighting to stop National Grid's plan to extend a natural gas pipeline through Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Click here to view original web page at gothamist.

Erick Díaz-Cruz was supposed to return to his native Mexico last Wednesday.

Commuters have taken more than 2.3 million discounted Long Island Rail Road trips between Southeast Queens and Brooklyn since the MTA began offering cut-rate rides from select stops in June 2018, figures obtained by THE CITY show.

Special teams of public housing staffers — trained at a "rat academy" — are fanning out across the city in an effort to get an accurate count of NYCHA's pest population, including rats, mice and roaches.

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 10 units in a four-story building at 2178 Bergen Street in Ocean Hill. Of the affordable apartments, there are five one-bedroom apartments and five two-bedroom apartments.

"Most of the antisemitic incidents in New York have not been perpetrated by jihadists or far-right extremists, but by young African-American men," the Times reports, citing the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt.

Wherever you choose to stay in New York, the best NYC hotel location is always near a subway station. If not, your weary feet will be killing you every evening.

Exterior work is nearing completion at 200 Kent Avenue , a six-story mixed-use building in Williamsburg , Brooklyn . The 83-foot-tall, 125,000-square-foot development is designed by ME Architect P.C.