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Overall, crime is up in East New York and in Brooklyn as a whole

A 12-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head while he was sitting in a parked minivan with two other people in Brooklyn on Thursday night, police sources said.

Little more than a month ago, Yana Miroshnychenko, a thirty-four-year-old Ukrainian, said goodbye to her husband and walked across the Romanian border with her five-year-old son in tow.

Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday announced that the city has filed a lawsuit against Moshe Piller , a building owner who has amassed more than 1,900 violations across 15 buildings he owns throughout Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan.

Disturbing video shows the moment an East New York man was shot in the head in a point-blank killing in Queens, according to police. Peter Panthier, 26, was walking with someone on Grassmere Terrace in Far Rockaway around 8 p.m.

The new location will operate out of the to-go window at Farewell, a popular Bushwick bar.

Family-owned Cafe Moca had only just reopened after suffering staffing shortages when its espresso machine was stolen. But the Hernandez family never gave up hope.

A new bike club on its way to East Brooklyn is looking for riders ready to hit the road this summer.

A Brooklyn man who got a light sentence for dragging and crippling an NYPD detective will be sentenced to five years behind bars for a separate car chase.

The residents of 120 East 19th St. in Flatbush, Brooklyn say that they get trapped in their malfunctioning elevator so often that the fire department knows them on a first name basis.