In Other Brooklyn News

The NYPD is under the gun Wednesday as the Brooklyn district attorney opened a probe into allegations of excessive force in the arrest of people accused of not social distancing .

Cops in Brooklyn have reportedly arrested 40 people for breaking social distancing rules during lockdown—35 were black, four were hispanic, and just one was white.

New York City's subway system went silent in the early morning hours of Wednesday, as part of a plan for the normally round-the-clock system to shut down for train cleaning.

New York City's running tally of reported nursing home deaths leapt 47% to 2,785 as of Sunday, as state officials released a fuller but still incomplete picture of the damage inflicted by coronavirus.

In Israel, where the total death toll as of Tuesday was 238 and the number of new daily infections below 50, the country has significantly eased its lockdown .

Police confiscated two illegal guns in Brooklyn over the weekend — one of which they took from a "known gang member," the NYPD said Tuesday.

When Raul Silva saw the need for nurses in New York, he dropped everything to serve in the epicenter of U.S. coronavirus cases.

Amina Piprawala and her boyfriend are expecting their first child, a baby boy, on June 2. She said she didn't expect to have a baby shower this weekend because of the coronavirus pandemic.

One woman in Brooklyn was hit over the head with an umbrella. A man waiting for the subway was spat on , as a stranger threatened to shoot him.

Workers move bodies to a refrigerated truck from the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, April 29, 2020.