The police have not made any arrests yet.
The employee was indicted on hate crime charges.
The fire's cause is under investigation.
The defendant pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, the Brooklyn District Attorney said.
Police have apprehended three of the suspects involved in the brutal mugging of a pedestrian on a Brooklyn street, officials said.
Police said that a man was brutally punched by four crooks in Brooklyn on Saturday, with the group making off with his cellphone.
Vetus Roberts, 70, died in the May 24 house fire that was intentionally set by Jennifer Rochard, police said.
Brandon Dubois, of Queens, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, police said.
Lamont Russell, 30, was fatally shot on May 18, police said.
A 26-year-old had a pistol pointed at him last month as a group of crooks demanded his cellphone, police said.
Authorities are investigating a body found inside a burning vehicle on Marginal St. near Bushwick Ave. on Monday night.
A 23-year-old Bed-Stuy man was sentenced to 20 years behind bars after he shot at a cop, whose bullet-proof vest caught the bullet.
A woman was crossing the street at a crosswalk when a vehicle slammed into her, according to the NYPD.
A serial stabber on a nine-day spree was likely responsible for a Brooklyn J train stabbing on Wednesday, police said.
Across Brooklyn, shootings declined by 25 percent in 2023 as compared to the year before, according to year-end data.
A Hart Street building caught fire early on Wednesday morning, according to the fire department.
A Brooklyn landlord put a dead cat in front of his tenant's apartment before setting fire to the building, prosecutors contend.
A man performed a lewd act in front of a 15-year-old girl on a Brooklyn M train, police said.
A 20-year-old was charged with manslaughter and reckless driving related to a 2022 crash that killed a Bed-Stuy man, police said.
An argument turned violent in a Bed-Stuy shop Thursday night, leaving one man in critical condition, police said.
A tree fell on a Bed-Stuy residence Monday morning, completely destroying a bedroom wall and bathroom, according to the FDNY and a report.
An education department employee exposed himself to a 16-year-old girl in a Brooklyn special needs school, according to police and a report.
The suspected shooter was charged weeks after a shooting on Thanksgiving that killed a beloved Brooklyn woman.
A 20-year-old accused of shooting two people on a Brooklyn-bound C train was arrested Tuesday, police said.
"This can be the difference between life and death," said Uniformed Firefighters Association president Andrew Ansbro.
A man was found with multiple gunshot wounds in an SUV in Bed-Stuy Tuesday night, police said.
A Bed-Stuy restaurant caught fire Tuesday morning, but no people were injured, according to authorities.
A 4-year-old died weeks after a teenage driver crashed into a pillar in Brooklyn, police said.
A 14-year-old was missing days after she was last seen leaving her Ocean Hill home, police said.
A 17-year-old and an adult were shot on a Bed-Stuy-bound C train Tuesday evening, police said.
A man was shot by a stranger between Bed-Stuy and Bushwick Sunday, and police hadn't made any arrests days later.
A fight on a B12 bus in Brooklyn landed a 60-year-old man in the hospital, police said.
A man was fatally shot at a Bed-Stuy residence Friday, and on Sunday police arrested a man who lives at the same address.
A 79-year-old woman was found days after being last seen at her Bed-Stuy home, police said Monday.
A 28-year-old accused of punching and choking a woman in a Bed-Stuy subway station was arrested Tuesday, police said.
A 20-year-old accused of slamming into a pedestrian and cyclist in Brooklyn was speeding and had been drinking, police said.
Two back-to-back hit-and-run drivers struck a 79-year-old woman crossing the street in Bed-Stuy Thursday evening.
Every major crime has decreased in Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct this year as compared to the same period in 2022.
The arrest comes months after a 29-year-old was found dead at Brooklyn's Vernon Houses.
A woman was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian after she fatally struck a 7-year-old riding a scooter in Fort Greene, police say.