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One door closes, another opens. A pie shop closed in early June, just weeks before a Gertie owners prepared to open another Brooklyn spot.
A man shoved a 27-year-old to the ground and tried to take off her underwear in Prospect Park before running away, police said.
An organization formed to aid the Underground Railroad will keep its historic Brooklyn mansion and get started on overdue repairs.
Advocates are determined not to let Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street's brownstones fall through the cracks like 441 Willoughby did.
A beloved Brooklyn ice cream spot reopened Wednesday — and owners are determined to make their recipes and business model better than ever.
Brooklyn locals on Tuesday mourned teenager Amiere Hayes, a day after the teenager was fatally shot near his Bed-Stuy home.
Two Brooklyn artists, one from Crown Heights, designed bright Skittles wrappers to celebrate Pride Month.
An innocent, 16-year-old bystander was hit in a Prospect Heights shooting in May, police said.
A man was shot Wednesday morning on Gates Avenue in Brooklyn, police said.
Dozens of Brooklyn electeds and tenants told the Rent Guidelines Board their proposed increases would create homelessness.
E-bike and scooter riders got the green-light to enter Prospect Park Tuesday, a move advocates called a win for accessibility.
A 14- and 26-year-old were shot in Prospect Heights Sunday, police said.
A man was stabbed after a verbal fight broke out between two subway-riders in Brooklyn Sunday, police said.
A 16-year-old was shot in the head Monday evening in Brooklyn, and his shooters remained at large a day later.
Though simple at first glance, Brooklynite Ken Granderson hopes Black history facts posted on LinkNYC kiosks will inspire young New Yorkers.
This week, city inspectors found roaches in Bed-Stuy, mice in Greenwich Village, defective doors in Murray Hill, and more.
The 36-year-old punched a woman on a Williamsburg-bound J train before he was stabbed, the New York Post reported.
A long stretch of Eastern Parkway will be one of NYC's Summer Streets this August, shutting down the Brooklyn road to cars.
A Prospect Heights staple closed last week after 14 years serving Italian classics and classic Brooklyn charm.
Advocates have a message for the NYPD months after two officers shot a 78-year-old in Bed-Stuy: we won't forget.
