Brooklyn NY

While enforcement is "happening," the optics of city employees bypassing the very tolls and parking mandates they enforce on everyone else are, well, terrible.

The two dogs are accused of mauling a French bulldog inside of the apartment building earlier this month.

Edwin Ramos was hours away from freedom. Ramos, 38, was set to plead guilty to an attempted burglary charge at a hearing in Brooklyn court Friday morning. The judge was then expected to release him from Rikers Island into some type of program, according to a source familiar with his case. He died a few hours […] ...

On November 18, 2025, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that Wesley Walker, 19, of Fort Greene, was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison. Walker was convicted of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the shooting death of 15-year-old Unique Smith in Downtown Brooklyn. The...

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. Zohran Mamdani campaigned on ending mayoral control of New York City’s public school system — by far his most significant education promise . As debate intensifies over whether the...

The assault happened around 5:30 p.m. on Friday along Third Avenue and East 163rd Street in the Morrisania section.

Baba A. Toure, 55, was taken into custody after a months-long investigation that began when a Lyndhurst resident reported identity theft and credit card fraud, Lyndhurst Police Chief Richard Jarvis said. The victim told Officer Michael D’Alessandro that they received their Costco credit card on July 31, and later...

Holy smokes! New York City was the site of what could have been the world’s biggest cigarette break Friday, with more than 1,500 smokers assembling outside Washington Square Park to get their nicotine fix. Park Slope native and social media sensation Bob Terry, a 75-year-old actor with a 60-year habit, organized the...

A woman who ran a Bronx daycare where a 1-year-old died of fentanyl poisoning was convicted Friday, along with her husband, of second-degree murder.

The NYPD confirmed its involvement in an FBI investigation that included surveillance of a private Signal chat of volunteer courtwatchers monitoring ICE activity inside New York City’s immigration courthouses. An NYPD spokesperson told THE CITY on Friday that surveillance of the Signal chat was part of a “broader...