In Other Brooklyn News

Click here to view original web page at talkingpointsmemo.com A refrigerated truck outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. (Courtesy of Marc Kozlow) This story was first published at ProPublica .

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The hospitality industry let out a sigh of relief this week after a $2 trillion coronavirus aid package made its way through the legislative ranks. But the road to recovery for restaurants already hit by the outbreak appears grim.

As of now, the House of Representatives will not be returning to the city until at least April 20. The District's Mayor, Muriel Bowser, announced stricter rules for residents at a press conference Monday. Click here to view original web page at wgme.

We regret to inform you of the Petira of Hagaon HaRav Yisroel Yechezkel Plutchok ZATZAL, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Derech Chaim in Boro Park. Rav Plutchok was in critical condition from COVID-19 and was Niftar on Thursday afternoon.

For five years, twin sisters in Brooklyn have visited their 105-year-old mother every night in her nursing home, bringing dinner and feeding her, overseeing her medications.

Down on their luck hospitality workers are getting the VIP treatment in Brooklyn, thanks to a pair of generous restaurateurs who are serving up gourmet meals and handing out free groceries and other essentials amid the Big Apple's coronavirus crisis.

More restaurants are closing everyday as it becomes increasingly difficult to survive on the mandated COVID-19 delivery and takeout-only model — many of these restaurants may never be able to return even after this crisis passes — and tho

Two companies took four days to convert space in Brooklyn Navy Yard into a factory making face shields protecting against the new coronavirus.

The dense and frantic city of New York is by far the largest epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States and cases are rapidly increasing in the borough of Brooklyn , which with almost 2.