Brooklyn

A judge says testimony by Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend about her sexual experiences with consenting adults can remain secret when a transcript is released next week.

A retired Connecticut State Police trooper and current deputy chief of the East Brooklyn Fire Department has died of COVID-19. Patrick Dragon, 50, died Saturday night at Hartford Hospital. Dragon, born and raised in Brooklyn, Conn., was a state trooper for 20 years. He was among the first to respond to the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in…

A 28-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested in the brutal September beating of a 79-year-old man who died more than a month after the attack, officials say. James Woods was cuffed on an assault charge Wednesday in the beating of Angel Diaz, who was attacked outside his own apartment on Hoyt Street Sept. 13. Video surveillance showed Diaz trying to…

A Brooklyn man was arrested Monday on charges of defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of almost $2 million. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged Leon Miles, 51, of using the money to purchase a 2020 Bentley Continental for $250,000 and a 2020 Cadillac Escalade for $100,000. The PPP is part of the CARES Act passed by Congress in March…

Food insecurity is a global problem that has only become more urgent during the pandemic. In an apartment building for low-income seniors in Brooklyn, one solution to the problem of finding affordable fresh produce can be found in the basement. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories shows us how hydroponics can help reduce hunger in cities.

A young boy from Brooklyn, Connecticut will be going on an all expenses paid trip to several theme parks in Florida, thanks to national nonprofit Baking Memories 4 Kids. “It is going to be just a breath of fresh air for our family,” said Allison Silver, whose son won the trip. Samuel Silver, 5, was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or…

At sixteen years old, the Brooklyn teenager became the youngest owner of a Black beauty supply store in the country, and her initial tweet about her store, Paris Beauty Supplyz, has gained nearly 140 thousand likes – and co-signs from big celebrities like Bella Hadid and Janet Jackson.

Brooklyn teen Paris McKenzie grew tired of going into beauty supply stores and either being treated like she wasn’t welcome or greeted by workers who had no knowledge of Black hair care. So, she opened up her own inclusive beauty supply store at the age of just 16 years old, drawing praise from big celebrities like Bella Hadid and Janet...

A Brooklyn woman wanted to help conserve some of the endangered plants of the world and beautify her own home at the same time. So she started growing plants in her apartment… and now has 1,100 of them. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories takes us inside an extreme green home.

Forrest beat a seven-year incumbent to represent New York’s 57th district.

A Brooklyn synagogue should be investigated over reports that it hosted a secret wedding with thousands of unmasked guests earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “If that happened, it was a blatant disregard of the law,” Cuomo said during a briefing in New York City. “It’s illegal. It was also disrespectful of the people of...

Brooklyn public schools will transition to remote learning for at least a week following Thanksgiving break, school officials said Monday. The town of Brooklyn has had 31 new COVID-19 cases over the past 14 days and the school district itself had four new cases in the past week, according to school officials. School officials said that if COVID-19 cases increase…

Health care systems across the state are preparing to treat a growing number of COVID-19 infections.

Hundreds of bodies are still stored in freezer trucks at a disaster morgue set up during New York City’s coronavirus surge in the spring, according to the city’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner.

Flames come shooting out from the weapon and high into the air, and later onto the ground, as the man jumps around on top of the bus that had about two dozen riders inside at the time.

Social video shows people in New York cheering, dancing and celebrating after the 2020 presidential election was projected for Joe Biden.

Several weeks after a brutal beating of a 79-year-old man on a New York City street, the victim has died, police said Wednesday. The NYPD says a man approached Angel Diaz who was outside his apartment on Hoyt Street on Sept. 13. Video surveillance of the incident shows Diaz trying to fend off the man with his cane but the…

Deputy sheriffs in New York City busted an illegal party in the early morning hours of Halloween with nearly 400 people inside a Brooklyn warehouse. Nine people are facing misdemeanor charges and health violations after allegedly disregarding the city and state’s emergency orders meant to limit gatherings and stop the spread of the coronavirus. Sheriffs said at least 387 people…

New York state is teetering on the edge of meeting its own standards for the tri-state quarantine list, reporting 9.99 new cases per 100,000 people over a seven-day rolling period as of Thursday. The threshold is 10, which the neighboring states of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey have already topped. The latter likely saw that metric climb even higher…

Nearly eight months to the day it announced its first coronavirus case in New York City, the Empire State has topped a half-million confirmed COVID cases, the fourth-highest total in the nation behind Texas, California and Florida. Gov. Andrew Cuomo added 2,031 new cases to the tally Wednesday, the highest single-day number in months, bringing New York’s total number of…