Policy & Government

Mamadou Mouctar Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, was settling in as a student at Brooklyn Frontiers High School when he was detained by federal immigration officials in August.

A wide swath of Brooklyn, from Downtown Brooklyn to Gerritsen Beach, will have additional 3-K seats in the 2026-2027 school year.

A new City Council bill would modernize the Third Party Transfer program to focus on the "worst-of-the-worst landlords," Gothamist reported.

Police officers responded to a 911 call at about 2:05pm and found a 30-year-old female shot in front of 445 Albee Square, according to the police.

Khyle Williams allegedly would meet his customers in a car in Flatbush to make his sales, typically selling guns for $800 - $1,100, a joint investigation by the New York Attorney General's Office, Police Department and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found.

Sorffly Davius, who had worked out of the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant since 2014, died on Friday as a result of a medical episode while deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Epic Fury.

A new report from State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli examines post-COVID shifts in New York’s prison population, highlighting the growing share of incarcerated people age 50 and older.

Buildings with one to nine residential units will be required to place trash in the official bins beginning in June 2026.

The city is looking into whether it can offer full- and extended-day options for the 2-K seats that will be available to eastern Brooklyn families.

Vacant NYCHA apartments rose to 6,740 in May 2025 from approximately 2,840 in January 2022. Some of the vacant apartments, without adequate security measures, create opportunities for illegal occupancy by unauthorized individuals, some of whom use the apartments as a base for illegal activities, city investigators found.