Brooklyn

Police are searching for the driver who struck and killed a man on New Year’s Eve in Brooklyn before leaving the scene. The hit-and-run crash happened at 5:46 p.m. Tuesday at Linden Blvd. and Nostrand Ave in Flatbush, according to the FDNY. The 64-year-old victim was hit by a white sedan that drove away after the crash, according to...

Authorities have released the identity of the sleeping woman burned to death inside a New York City subway train by a man who allegedly lit her on fire and stayed to watch the aftermath, officials said Tuesday. The woman identified in the F train attack at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station earlier this month was named Debrina Kawam. She was 57…

The man accused of killing a woman on the F train by setting her on fire while she slept has been charged with murder and arson. Sebastian Zapeta, a Guatemalan citizen who authorities say entered the U.S. illegally, faces first- and second-degree murder charges in connection with the heinous crime. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

Sebastian Zapeta is accused by prosecutors of lighting the woman on fire on a stopped F train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station Sunday morning, then fanning the flames with a shirt.

The NYPD is looking for the masked attacker who allegedly stabbed a Brooklyn shelter worker to death Thursday night. The stabbing occurred just after 6 p.m. at the shelter on East New York Avenue in Brownsville, according to police. When officers arrived, they found a 36-year-old male victim in the lobby of the shelter with stab wounds to his neck…

The NYPD is looking for the suspect who stabbed a Brooklyn shelter worker to death.

A vigil was held Thursday for the woman set on fire on a Brooklyn subway last weekend, a public memorial for the still nameless victim in a case that rocked the nation due to its cruelty. Community leaders planned to hold a late-afternoon prayer vigil at the Stillwell Avenue station in Coney Island, where the woman was sleeping on an…

New York City police arrested and charged a man suspected to have set a woman on fire in the subway early Sunday and then watched from a bench as she became engulfed in flames and died.

Police have arrested the man accused of burning a woman to death on an F train in Brooklyn, and ICE officials said the suspect had come to the U.S. illegally. NBC New York’s Brittany Miller reports.

New York City police arrested and charged a man suspected to have set a woman on fire in the subway early Sunday and then watched from a bench as she became engulfed in flames and died.

Police officials said a person of interest was arrested hours after allegedly using a lighter to set a woman on fire in Coney Island. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports. 

Police officials said a man considered a person of interest in Sunday’s deadly train fire was in custody hours after allegedly starting the blaze that killed a sleeping woman. The woman was discovered around 7:30 a.m. on an F train in Coney Island at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station. Police believe the woman had been sleeping aboard the...

An afternoon shooting in Brooklyn sent two people to the hospital and shut down a subway stop as police investigated the daytime violence. Police said two men were shot shortly before 3:30 p.m. in Gravesend at the Avenue U stop off East 15th Street. A 21-year-old man was shot in the leg and an 18-year-old was grazed in the stomach,…

Police were looking for two suspects believed to be behind a double shooting at a Brooklyn subway platform. 

Police say gunfire erupted outside of the bus, with one bullet piercing the front window and striking a passenger on board. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports. 

Intense new video shows the electrical substation explosion that knocked out subway service for multiple lines in Brooklyn Wednesday night, trapping thousands of riders underground for hours.

A new look at the electrical substation explosion that knocked out subway service in Brooklyn on Wednesday night that trapped thousands of riders. News 4 New York’s Andrew Siff reports. 

A raging fire at a posh Brooklyn hotel sent plumes of smoke and bright flames into the nighttime air early Wednesday. Authorities responding to a call about the blaze at the Moxy Brooklyn Williamsburg on Bedford Avenue encountered fire on the first floor of the 12-story building around 2 a.m. The hotel’s outdoor dining space apparently caught fire. The...

No injuries were reported. News 4’s Julio “Gaby” Acevedo repotrs.

A baby survived a high-speed police chase on Thursday in New York City that ended with a passenger in the car shot to death by officers and the driver wounded. Police only discovered there was an infant inside after they had stopped the car and fired multiple rounds, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said during an afternoon news conference. “At…