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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.

Brooklyn Org and United Way of New York City launch a multi-year energy equity initiative with National Grid Foundation to address affordability and workforce access in Brooklyn and Queens.

The state is awarding $1 million for Weeksville to preserve Black heritage and expand community programs.

Raised in Crown Heights, Dr. McKinney Steward was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in New York.

Community Board 1 recommends approval of Monitor Point, a three-tower waterfront development in Greenpoint, with conditions on affordability, transit and parks.