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Governor Kathy Hochul also allocated another $40 million in new funding for various state food aid programs, bringing the total to $106 million.

Thanks to a $13.2 million investment from Brooklyn-based state assemblymembers, 18 library branches will get new roofs, HVAC systems and other building upgrades.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music presents "I Guess It Was My Destiny to Live So Long," a poetry series curated by Hanif Abdurraqib celebrating June Jordan’s legacy through readings, film and performance from Nov. 18–21.

Officers responded to 4819 18th Ave. just after 6:30pm on Wednesday.

Police say a man pulled a gun on two street vendors in the Flatbush area, threatened them and stole some cash.

Overdose deaths declined sharply in 2024, but communities of color and low-income neighborhoods continue to face the highest rates of loss.

Iquan Warlick of Fort Greene, along with others, were sentenced to prison for killing a college student and a young woman, and wounding several others in separate shootings in East New York and Bedford-Stuyvesant in 2020.

The Brooklyn Peace Center presents its Annual Jazz Night: Peace on Earth on Dec. 13, featuring Michelle Coltrane in a celebration of peace, culture and community.