Brooklyn News

Weather The warm weather continues for the New York City area this week, with temperatures in the mid 40s expected throughout the week.

February 12, 2012: Maxwell Lemuel Roach is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history.

A Bronx teenager was stabbed to death in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Saturday night in a fight after a game of parking lot football, police said.

A 21-year-old ex-con was shot dead and another man injured when gunfire erupted last night on a Brooklyn street, police said.

Today is the final day for dozens of churches around the city to hold services inside public school buildings, as the Bloomberg administration plans to start enforcing a court decision banning churches from using schools for religious worship.

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Risa Binder's debut album, "Paper Hearts," is hitting store shelves on Feb.

A smoky fire in a six-story Brooklyn building yesterday critically injured one person and trapped several others in an elevator well known to the city for its history of building-code violations.

State Sen. Andrew Lanza answers a question last year regarding school safety as the Assembly representatives Michael Cusick, Nicole Malliotakis and Matthew Titone.

A man was arrested on Long Island for allegedly touching the feet of a teenage girl and asking another to MYFOXNY.COM - Parents, community leaders, and local politicians held a meeting in Brooklyn to learn how to recognize the warning signs of sexual abuse.

For many New Yorkers a crowded subway car would be the last place to look for romance.

An usher waits to greet parishioners at the rededication service for the newly renovated sanctuary at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Clinton Hill.

Two men have pleaded guilty in what prosecutors say was a scheme to defraud Wal-Mart and T-Mobile stores from Maine to Florida.

A specter is haunting America - the specter of violence that challenges the notion of civil discourse and threatens our democracy.

It took only a moment for Andre Carrasco to get out of his car and jump to his death from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge last month.

More than 20 years after the Rev. Al Sharpton nearly died after being stabbed during a march in Brooklyn, N.Y., he said he's now a more careful, thoughtful person still ingrained with the passion for protest.

Seth Kushner, a Sheepshead Bay native and now famous photographer , recently wrote a piece onA Welcome to Trip City A about his love for comic books - and his early adventures going to several stores in the area where he got his fix.

Stockholm's Niki & the Dove , who released The Drummer EP and "The Fox" single last year and made BBC's 'Sound of 2012' list , recently announced a short US tour which will take place this March and hit NYC on March 10 at Knitting Factory .

The jail, which fills a city block and has been shuttered for the past decade, reopened this week in a newly upscale neighborhood following a legal fight over its proposed expansion.

The NYPD police officer shot in the face at point-blank range in Brooklyn last month is heading home from the hospital Friday.

Teachers in Clinton Hill are furious that the city will close their Gates Avenue middle school and replace it with a brand new middle school - claiming the Department of Education allowed them to fail instead of answering their pleas for help.