Crown Heights

A Brooklyn woman was gunned down by another woman who got out of a car and shot her in the back of the head, police said.

In the nearly 30 years since tensions between the African American and Jewish communities exploded in riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, Rabbi Eli Cohen and Geoffrey Davis have established a friendship that the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks has not dinted. The African American, Caribbean American and Jewish communities that share Crown Heights are much closer today…

The NYPD has released new surveillance video of suspects wanted for a string of hate-crime assaults reported last week in Brooklyn. Police say a group of men attacked two Hasidic Jewish men in the Crown Heights neighborhood on Dec. 24. Both assaults occurred roughly 30 minutes apart, the NYPD says, when the victims were walking down neighborhood streets. The first…

A Florida man wanted in a campaign finance case involving associates of Rudy Giuliani is in federal custody.

Vaccinations have been made mandatory this summer for campers and staff in several counties north of New York City that annually fill up with kids from the Orthodox Jewish communities that have been hit hardest by measles.

The metal item the man who was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn earlier this week after getting calls about him pointing what looked like a gun at pedestrians was a the head of a blow torch, the NYPD revealed Friday.

The NYPD has released surveillance video and 911 call transcripts in the deadly shooting of a 34-year-old man who pointed a metal pipe at officers responding to several 911 calls in Brooklyn Wednesday.  The man, identified as Saheed Vassell, was shot and killed on a street in Crown Heights Wednesday afternoon by officers who mistook the pipe for a gun….

Police shot and killed a man holding a pipe in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon after callers reported a suspect pointing what appeared to be a gun at people on the street.

Never doubt a New York City rat’s strength and resolve. The city’s rodents are already known to persist in their quest for local food favorites (see: pizza rat, roll rat). But one astonishing rat in Brooklyn was captured on video dragging by its teeth an entire filled trash bag just to get to a personal pizza crust inside.  Leigh...

A Muslim MTA worker was called a terrorist and pushed down the stairs at Grand Central Terminal on Monday, the latest in a string of alleged bias attacks sweeping the region, authorities said.

Their attempt was ambitious, but when 4,000 rabbis took the so-called “Mannequin Challenge,” the result was something less than statuesque.

A rapper charged in a deadly shooting at a New York City concert hall has pleaded not guilty.

A man died and three others were wounded in a shooting at a New York City concert venue where the rapper T.I. was scheduled to perform, police said, as they continued their search for the gunman who opened fire.