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The Working Families Party endorsed Borough President Antonio Reynoso to replace Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, who in November announced that she was not going to seek re-election.

The Center for Black Literature has a host of programming in the coming weeks, leading up to its annual premiere event, the 18th National Black Writers Conference, taking place between March 25 through March 28, at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.

"Printing Black America," on display at the Central Library through May 31, is an exhibit that portrays Black life in the 21st century based on the data visualizations created by W.E.B. Du Bois.

About.com ranked the Grammy Award-winning artist #3 on its list of the "Top 50 MCs of Our Time."

FDNY responded to an overnight fire at a building on Church Avenue in Brooklyn.

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.