CITYWIDE – A NEW DRUG that the DEA has warned is more dangerous than deadly fentanyl is responsible for an increasing share of fatal overdoses across the city, reports the Daily News. Xylazine ...

CORONA – A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL was killed and another teen girl was critically injured while subway-surfing at 111th Street in Corona on Sunday night, reports Gothamist, marking the sixth death ...

CITYWIDE — TRAFFIC CRASHES KILLED 193 people and seriously injured another 2,338 more during the first nine months of 2024, according to a new analysis from Transportation Alternatives and ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1923, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “With great simplicity and in the immediate presence of no more than 400 people who had known and loved him, the birthplace of Theodore ...

Federal agencies converged on Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) on Monday, conducting a coordinated raid aimed at addressing persistent security issues and dangerous conditions ...

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Ignore the misinformation and vote “Yes” on Proposition One to pass New York’s Equal Rights Amendment, a host of Brooklyn officials and advocates urged from the steps ...

FORT GREENE — POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING the death of a teenage boy at a housing project in Fort Greene, Brooklyn late Saturday night, Oct. 26. According to the NYPD, officers received a 911 call ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The annual Brooklyn Heights Halloween Parade brought hundreds of youngsters dressed as cartoon characters, cereal boxes, fairies and walking pizza slices to the Promenade on ...

BENSONHURST – EX-ASSEMBLYMEMBER PETER Abbate is using campaign funds to attack former colleagues ahead of next week’s election, reports the New York Post, sending vitriolic flyers to southern ...

GRAVESEND — A TWO-ALARM FIRE BROKE OUT Saturday evening in Gravesend at 2720 86th Street, a five-story building housing a daycare, as well as apartments and offices, reports News 12. The blaze ...

CITYWIDE – NEW YORKERS SET a new record for day-one early voting this weekend, reports Gothamist, with more than 140,000 people across the five boroughs turning out to vote in person on Saturday ...

BED-STUY – UNCOMMON SCHOOLS, THE Brooklyn Public Library and Assemblymember Stefani L. Zinerman are hosting a “Book-O-Ween” kids’ book giveaway event at Restoration Plaza in Bed-Stuy on ...