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Affordable Housing Tenants in Carroll Gardens Fight to Stay in Their Homes

Affordable Housing Tenants in Carroll Gardens Fight to Stay in Their Homes

Tenants called for the passage of the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act and Community Opportunity to Purchase Act so they could buy the building.
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A Sandwich Showdown at Brooklyn's Lefferts Historic House on Nov. 3

A Sandwich Showdown at Brooklyn's Lefferts Historic House on Nov. 3

Get ready for some sandwiches, story-telling and more!
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Good Day, Brooklyn!

Good Day, Brooklyn!

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Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Stabbing Stranger on Subway

Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Stabbing Stranger on Subway

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for a violent incident in which he pulled a kitchen knife on a subway train and stabbed a stranger in the back.
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Woman Discovered Strangled in Apartment During Wellness Check in East NY

Woman Discovered Strangled in Apartment During Wellness Check in East NY

Police say a woman was found dead with a wire wrapped around her neck Wednesday evening inside an East New York apartment.
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Two Men Injured in Halloween Shooting Near Brooklyn’s Cypress Hills

Two Men Injured in Halloween Shooting Near Brooklyn’s Cypress Hills

Halloween got off to a grim start in Brooklyn when two men were injured in a brazen daylight shooting, authorities confirmed.
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Public Schools to Begin Winter Break Early Thanks to Brooklyn 7th Grader

Public Schools to Begin Winter Break Early Thanks to Brooklyn 7th Grader

Three cheers for Isaac Regnier, at student at I.S. 96 in Bensonhurst, who started a petition and a letter-writing campaign.
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Red Hook's BWAC Gallery Opens Fall Exhibitions With Watercolors, Photography, Ceramic Art

Red Hook's BWAC Gallery Opens Fall Exhibitions With Watercolors, Photography, Ceramic Art

One exhibit showcases works from artists who applied to the Brooklyn Museum's 200th Anniversary show but were turned away.
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Good Day, Brooklyn!

Good Day, Brooklyn!

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Shootings, Sex Crimes Higher in Brooklyn in October, While Other Felonies Declined

Shootings, Sex Crimes Higher in Brooklyn in October, While Other Felonies Declined

Violent crime continued to trend downward in Brooklyn in October after two promising months, according to the latest NYPD statistics, but gun violence and rape continued to present major issues in the borough.
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