Policy & Government

The City Council awarded Flatbush Cats $500,000 to launch a new program expanding affordable spay and neuter services to reduce the city's cat overpopulation.

An old, city-owned property at 390 Kent Ave. in Williamsburg will be redeveloped into 900 apartments.

Brooklyn residents are invited to share input on the city’s plan to redevelop the New Utrecht Library in Bensonhurst, adding affordable housing above and next to the branch.

The 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes, e-scooters and pedal-assist commercial bicycles that starts on Oct. 24 will match the same speed limit that currently applies to stand-up e-scooters.

After multiple delays, the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Task Force on Monday gave its approval on the project that will transform the Columbia Street Waterfront District.

A pro-charter school rally organized by Success Academy drew thousands to Brooklyn on Thursday, with supporters urging the state to keep promoting charter schools. But some employees said they felt pressured to attend.

Once built, the 72-story tower at 395 Flatbush Ext. would be the borough's second-tallest building.

Education policy attorney Michael Rebell, together with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP and the Youth Advocacy and Policy Lab at Harvard Law School, said they are suing the state on behalf of the approximately 100,000 Hasidic and Haredi students who are being denied access to meaningful educational opportunities in their nonpublic schools known as yeshivas. 

A five-alarm fire ripped through a 150-year-old warehouse complex on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook on Wednesday.

The Red Hook Coastal Resiliency project will include the construction of floodwalls, deployable floodgates, the raising of some streets, and upgrades to local sewers to address flooding.