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New York Restoration Project will hold four Brooklyn tree giveaways with local partners

The NYPD is launching a new citywide initiative in response to the increased number of shootings and thefts as well as the rise in quality-of-life offenses that contribute to crime.

A man tried to kidnap a 13-year-old in broad daylight on the streets of East New York earlier this week, according to police. The teenage girl was pushing a laundry cart down Pitkin Avenue near Ashford Street around 2:20 p.m.

Shocking video captures the moment a crew of baby-faced attackers beat a 14-year-old boy in a Brooklyn train station earlier this month.

New York will launch a citywide program to provide mothers with free access to doulas, Mayor Adams said Wednesday, deploying a relatively small infantry of childbirth experts in high-need areas before expanding across the five boroughs.

Former Brooklyn-based City Councilmember and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo has been named Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs by Mayor Eric Adams.

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approached the one-month mark, professors at Brooklyn College came together Monday for a panel discussion on the historical and political context of the war, which has now resulted in thousands of deaths.

Democrat Brian Cunningham has been elected to Brooklyn’s 43 rd Assembly District in a special election to replace former Assemblymember Diana Richardson, winning out over Working Families Party Candidate Jelanie DeShong. Cunningham received 62.

Meagan King, Nicholas Begun and Amar Smalls will be performing as part of the iconic Alvin Ailey’s Ailey II dance company

A 14-year-old boy was attacked by a group of unknown individuals in a Brooklyn subway station last week -- a violent act that left him swollen and bruised in the middle of the afternoon, authorities say.