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Police say the incident happened around 10:00pm on Monday in front of 645 MacDonough St. The 22-year-old victim was shot in the arm

New York City Public Schools will be open for in-person instruction on Tuesday, Feb. 24, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced.

An East New York man was sentenced to three to nine years in prison after speeding through red lights and causing a 2023 Downtown Brooklyn crash that killed 21-year-old Shanti Joyner and injured three others.

Dr. Josephine English, a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, was the first Black woman to open a private practice in the state of New York. She is said to have delivered about 6,000 babies, many of them in Brooklyn.

A firefighter is covered in soot and ash after operating at a three alarm fire in Brooklyn on Feb. 20, 2026.

A 13-year-old boy was shot multiple times just after 2:30pm on Friday afternoon at the NYCHA Low Houses in Brownsville. The teen was shot in the right thigh, right hand, left hand and has a graze wound to the left knee.

Jay-Z pulled himself up by his bootstraps to eventually become the reigning rapper of New York City.

State regulators seized $1.4M in illegal cannabis and padlocked a Rogers Avenue shop operating next to a Brooklyn childcare center.

Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts and partner schools launched a free swim program teaching Brooklyn scholars water safety, leadership and potential aquatics careers.