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The festival is adding animation and podcasting as new competitive categories.

From decadent doughnuts to Parisian pastries, here are Brooklyn’s best sweet spots you can’t miss!

NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident.

A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot in a Sheepshead Bay NYCHA complex, police said. New York City Police Department officers found him with a chest wound; he later died at a hospital.

More than 100 Brooklyn nonprofit organizations that are prohibited by federal and state laws from participating in campaigns and other election activities have made donations or lent support to candidates or political committees tied to officials, according to an investigation by the Times Union.

Yitzchok Sklar, 33, and Miriam Elkayam, 27, both of whom were living in a family shelter in East Flatbush, were indicted with reckless manslaughter and other crimes in connection with the death of their four-year-old son Aron Sklar, who was exposed to fentanyl.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously signed off on the revised plans for the adaptive reuse of the Central United Methodist Church in Fort Greene, a 1930s neo-Gothic church at 144 St. Felix Street after months of back and forth with the project’s design team.

McCraw's extensive experience in the arts and longstanding connection to BAM positions her to help define the organization’s evolution at a pivotal moment for cultural institutions nationwide, according to board directors.

The inaugural festival invites grades 4–8 to join a free day of music, learning and a mass choir performance in Brooklyn.