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Japan's #1 second-hand bookstore has found itself a new home inside Industry City's Japan Village

A man was shot in the head and killed inside a Brooklyn apartment Sunday night, police said on Monday. A 911 caller alerted police to the shooting, which happened inside an apartment building on Blake Avenue in East New York around 11:30 p.m.

The vermin appear through the darkness each evening: Dozens of unwanted intruders running up and down the stairs, through the hallways — and even crawling through the windows.

On a recent afternoon, a sales associate at Street Lawyer Services, a marijuana dispensary on the Lower East Side, scrolled through the shop’s inventory on a screen as Oliver, a return customer, looked on.

A Brooklyn community, united in grief, is coming together to call for an end to gun violence after 12-year-old Kade Lewin was shot and killed while sitting in a car. The community held a rally and vigil on Friday night to honor the boy.

As we look for ways to keep our commercial corridors vibrant, it's important there is a focus on employee ownership initiatives

At a Bed-Stuy school where about one-third of students live in a shelter, staff help kids by washing their laundry, walking them to school and even getting a school comfort dog. Now the school needs help with a new dryer.

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.