In Other Brooklyn News

Klal Yisroel has lost one of its most experienced Rebbeim. Rabbi Baruch Pollack was niftar Motzei Shabbos HaGadol at the age of 92 in Yerushalayim. Rabbi Pollack had been a 1st grade Rebbe for over 60 years.

For the first time in its history, the New York City Board of Elections is convening virtual hearings this week to determine state and local candidates for the June primary.

In the largest slum in Kenya's capital, people desperate to eat set off a stampede during a recent giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving scores injured and two people dead.

Amy Schiappa's days of styling hair and running two popular salons with 26 employees have been turned on their head by the coronavirus crisis.

More than two dozen people at a juvenile detention center in Brooklyn have tested positive for the coronavirus — just two weeks after medical staff there told colleagues they could not wear protective masks on the job, sources said.

Jeanne Gang is sitting in the new home of FDNY Rescue Company 2 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, talking with a bunch of its members.

A public health facility in East New York is now offering COVID-19 testing to elderly and those with pre-existing conditions in an effort to stem the spread of the pandemic, which has disproportionately affected communities of color, Mayor bill de Bl

The NYPD says that roughly 60 people turned a barbershop in Brooklyn into a nightclub for a late-night party, violating the city's social gathering guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic. Click here to view original web page at www.fox5ny.

Judge and former NYC Councilman Noach Dear passed away today after a battle with the coronavirus. He was 67 years old.

Lying in a hospital bed last month, Madhvi Aya understood what was happening to her. She had been a doctor in India, then trained to become a physician assistant after she immigrated to the United States.