More affluent zip codes covering Crown Heights showed fewer COVID-19 deaths and lower death rates than poorer areas, according to new data.
Former Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr., who is serving a 14-year sentence, hopes to move from federal prison to home confinement.
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The borough's garden is one of 10 across the country featured on the U.S. Postal Service's new "American Gardens" stamp series.
"I’m sure it happened in the last pandemic," said John Quadrozzi Jr., who runs the stables, with a laugh.
"That's too much, man" says an onlooker in the video — a sentiment shared by Mayor Bill de Blasio after the video went viral.
Tyquan Howard, 16, a suspect in an infamous crowd attack and shoe theft, was shot and killed Tuesday, according to a report.
Parks citywide, including Prospect Park, are falling $37 million short for maintenance and programs ahead of summer, a new study found.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams used a megaphone to spread a safety message amid reports of harsh NYPD social distancing enforcement.
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Nickalus Thompson, 21, known as Nick Blixky, was found fatally wounded on a Prospect Lefferts Garden street, authorities said.
NYPD officers handed out 22 social distancing summons in a precinct covering north Crown Heights, according to long-awaited police data.
When Mayor Bill de Blasio said he might entry into parks to prevent overcrowding, some asked if that meant his Prospect Park trips.
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Police found Oshea Barnes, 25, late Tuesday with a fatal gunshot wound to his chest, authorities said.
See a list of reported coronavirus deaths at Brooklyn nursing homes, topped by Phoenix Rehabilitation & Nursing Center.
"Death care" workers and city officials virtually meet after the discovery of at least 50 bodies found stacked at Brooklyn funeral home.
Expect some parking closures as city workers install green stormwater basins all over Crown Heights this week.
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The state's health commissioner suspended the license of a Brooklyn funeral home where police found 50 rotting bodies stored in trucks.
Thirty-six SUNY Downstate College of Medicine students will receive their diplomas early in a virtual commencement on Friday.
"Absolutely unacceptable," said Mayor Bill de Blasio after police found decomposing bodies stored outside a Brooklyn funeral home.
Unemployment and payroll protection proved hot topics over a wide-ranging business virtual town hall hosted by Central Brooklyn lawmakers.
A Flatlands funeral home appears to be connected to a report of bodies stowed in vehicles parked along Utica Avenue, police said.
Atlantic Boat Club got slapped with a liquor license suspension after serving patrons three times during shutdown, authorities said.
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"We are outraged," wrote state Sen. Zellnor Myrie over reports of PPE shortfalls and testing woes at University Hospital of Brooklyn.
A surveillance photograph showed the unmasked suspect leaving a Crown Heights subway station, cell phone in hand.
"This is the epitome of non-essential travel," a heckler yelled at Mayor Bill de Blasio during Hizzoner's 10-mile one-way trip to Brooklyn.
Three Central Brooklyn hospital leaders updated their communities on coronavirus cases in a call hosted by state lawmakers.
"We have no choice but to stay open for all of our patients," said a pharmacy owner who has seen payments from drug middlemen dry up.
Don't leave nursing homes "stranded" as deaths from virus increase, said BP Eric Adams, who delivered PPE to a Crown Heights facility.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced free coronavirus testing as part of a larger plan to address the outbreak in public housing.
Police found a 46-year-old man with a stab wound in his chest Tuesday evening in Weeksville, NYPD said.
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A witness to a Wednesday evening shooting along Prospect Place heard the victim yell, "I got shot."
The suspect got in an argument with an employee at a Prospect Heights store, punched him and ran off with two phones, authorities said.
Updated New York City coronavirus death counts added nearly 700 Brooklynites who likely died from the virus without being tested.
“We don’t have the luxury of time in responding to this,” said Public Advocate calling for probe into nursing home conditions and deaths.
The state-opened facilities in Flatbush and Brownsville aim to serve mostly-minority communities vulnerable to the outbreak.