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"I'm going to kill you," the man told the MTA employee at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens subway stop, according to police.
It was one of two shootings on Wednesday in the neighborhood, according to police.
Angel Eaddy was sentenced Wednesday for the 2019 shooting, which hit two innocent bystanders on a crowded Crown Heights street, the DA said.
An extra concert in the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music's stoop series will be part of New York City's homecoming week.
The neighborhood gained 4,000 new residents in the last decade, a 7 percent increase in its population, new census data shows.
The white population more than doubled in both east and west Bed-Stuy between 2010 and 2020, according to new census data.
The 32-year-old man was left with broken facial bones after he was punched at the subway station, police said.
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Police released body camera footage this week from a May shootout between a suspect and three officers.
The neighborhood lost nearly 19,000 Black residents and gained about 15,000 white residents from 2010 and 2020, new census data shows.
Health officials said they are prepared to give NYers third doses, which the federal government is expected to advise as early as September.
Looking at data for Park Slope's two ZIP codes, more than 7,000 neighbors have come down with the virus since the start of the pandemic.
Police released photos Tuesday morning of the two gunmen and the getaway car used in a shooting at the Eleanor Roosevelt Houses on Monday.
A dozen or so apartments on Fulton Street are available on the affordable housing lottery, but only for those making at least $60,00 a year.
A sound installation headed to Brooklyn's backyard will "step inside the perspective of a tree" with a 10-hour opera about its life cycle.
The bus driver was left with a shattered pelvis, broken ribs and other injuries after the road rage incident, officials said.
The new rules requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining, entertainment and fitness were originally set to launch Monday.
The man was knocked off his scooter by a car and then run over on Fulton Street, police said.
Police are searching for three gunmen they say opened fire near Marcy and Lexington avenues on Saturday.
Officers bashed Maniyja Love in the head with a flashlight before letting her go without any charges, according to her attorney.
