In Other Brooklyn News

Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Photo by Susan De Vries As the city quietly raises townhouse taxes across Brooklyn, a mayoral commission today released a report proposing to raise raise property taxes even more for all types of residences.

Cops need the public's help in finding a thief who grabbed a phone out of a Brooklyn commuter's hands, then assaulted him after the victim tried to get the device back. Police said the trouble began at 11:15 a.m. on Jan.

Adem Bunkeddeko came within 2,000 votes of unseating longtime Brooklyn Rep. Yvette Clarke two years ago, on the same day Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousted powerful Rep. Joe Crowley in Queens and The Bronx.

Two people were shot last night in Brooklyn, and police say they were not the intended targets. Two men allegedly got into an argument around 8:45 p.m. inside a deli on Pitkin Avenue in East New York . ...

Sitting between a row of low-rise buildings on Crown Heights's Pacific Street, this historic Italianate house with a wraparound porch, which has just hit the market, does surely make a lasting impression.

A Brooklyn woman suspected of physically and verbally assaulting three Jewish women last month and was released twice without bail, after which she attacked another woman, is now facing federal hate crimes charges.

A Brooklyn bakery hopes to convince the nation's Republican senators that allowing witnesses at Trump's impeachment trial would just be icing on the cake.

Brooklyn Assemblymember Diana C. Richardson says that her bill ensuring pregnant women and new mothers are provided with information about issues and complications that could lead to maternal mortality has been signed into law.

Firefighters found Litman's body after responding to a fire at his four-story brownstone on Adelphi St. near Dekalb Ave. in Fort Greene. He had suffered puncture wounds to his neck and chest before the fire, authorities said.

Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders voted to hold fewer meetings and restrict member-driven resolutions on Jan. 20 — two changes that reformers claim will reduce the body's transparency.