Brooklyn

A little girl is safe and a brief carjacking ride through Brooklyn on Saturday. Police said the 8-year-old girl had been left unattended inside the backseat of a vehicle when a man stole the car and took it for a brief joyride in Brownsville. The NYPD said she had been left alone in a Dodge Durango on Rockaway Parkway near…

Four newborn kittens were recovering after being tossed out in the trash. They were found double-bagged in a Sunset Park garbage can. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

They may be just a few weeks old, but four kittens already have quite a life story. The young felines are recovering after they were rescued from inside a bag thrown in the trash in Brooklyn.

New York’s attorney general announced an investigation Friday into the death of a woman who was struck and killed by an unmarked police vehicle in Brooklyn.

A battle is breaking out among clergy inside the diocese of Brooklyn. An investigation has been underway into alleged misuse of church funds by a monsignor, and now recordings of private conversations involving a deacon using a racial slur are coming to light. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A Brooklyn church deacon who was asked to help supervise a parish under financial scrutiny was himself relieved of his duties after recordings surfaced of private conversations that allegedly include him using racist language.

News 4’s Melissa Russo with the latest. 

A Brooklyn monsignor whose church had been subpoenaed amid the Eric Adams corruption investigation has been relieved of many of his duties after allegedly mishandling $2 million in church funds and using a church credit card for personal expenses, the Diocese said in a statement Monday. Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, was stripped “of any pastoral…

Authorities have made an arrest in the case of a father and daughter who were found dead with their throats slit inside a Brooklyn home over the weekend, police said Monday. The 91-year-old man and 66-year-old woman were discovered on the kitchen floor of the two-story family home in Cypress Hills on Sunday afternoon, according to police. The family had…

The body of a man was found on a Coney Island beach after washing ashore, according to police.

Police identified the father and daughter found dead with their throats slashed inside their home in Cypress Hills. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A father and daughter were found dead with their throats slit inside a Brooklyn home over the weekend, law enforcement sources say. The 91-year-old man and 66-year-old woman were discovered on the kitchen floor of the two-story family home in Cypress Hills on Sunday afternoon, according to police. The family had lived in the home for more than 30 years….

A man was arrested on Saturday accused of grabbing a young child and trying to abduct him from his father while the family walked down a Brooklyn street.

Police said a 28-year-old Crown Heights man was arrested this weekend for trying to kidnap a 6-year-old boy from his dad while the family walked down a sidewalk.

The FDNY said it took crews three hours to get the brush fire under control. News 4’s Greg Cergol reports. 

A 2-acre brush fire broke out in Prospect Park on Friday night amid a lengthy drought and windy conditions that have led to red flag warnings for nearly the entire tri-state area.

A Brooklyn man is facing a litany of charges for allegedly staging a car crash as part of an insurance fraud scheme by cutting off another driver on the Belt Parkway, forcing the driver to stop and then reversing into the victim’s car — an incident that was caught on the victim’s dash cam and soon became a viral...

A New York man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for a scheme that involved killing and dismembering a woman after fraudulently taking out a life insurance policy in her name to collect the benefits, federal prosecutors said.

After the city cemented over its beloved goldfish puddle one week ago, Bed-Stuy neighbors dug up a new pond. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

A makeshift aquarium built beneath a leaky New York City fire hydrant has been revived. Industrious Brooklynites have taken waterproof liner, bath tiles and concrete blocks and fashioned a new pond in a tree bed next to the now repaired hydrant. Dozens of people passed by Friday to see the roughly 40 goldfish darting around their new environs, which included...