In Other Brooklyn News

Brooklyn business owners and staff prepared for the worst ahead of the Mayoral executive order to shut down or reduce operations of most establishments in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to intensify and cities across the country hunker down, New Yorkers have been tasked with the uncharacteristic, yet morally responsible practice of social distancing.

The sudden and prolonged shutdown of New York City's museums and its iconic Broadway theaters. Restaurants and bars also closed except for take out and delivery. Hotels struggling to stay open in the face of a wave of canceled reservations.

Police have released video of a thief caught on camera stealing a woman's wallet at a gas station in Brooklyn. The incident took place on Saturday, Feb. 15, in front of a gas station on Bedford Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Food stores are running low at Bed-Stuy's The Campaign Against Hunger as coronavirus fears have increased demand at the pantry. Normally, the pantry serves about 300 households a day, said founder Melony Samuels.

People walk past a convenience store where the latest cover of a magazine is stuck on a pillar outside of it today in New York. The Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo is one of the richest in New York.

A rally was held Thursday in support of a young man who was seen in cell video being savagely beaten by officers of the New York Police Department despite his hands being up priorto the attack.

ICE agents stormed a Brooklyn restaurant and released a cloud of caustic pepper spray to nab an undocumented immigrant worker, unsettling video of the bust shows. The agents barged into La Cabana, a Spanish eatery on Flatbush Ave.

A bitterly controversial proposal to expand Brooklyn's Industry City got a boost on Monday when Borough President Eric Adams conditionally approved most of the plan's major elements and left open the door to approving the rest. ..

New York City would soon introduce "more restrictions" to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in an interview on CNN on Thursday morning.