Brooklyn

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…

The woman who snuck on a flight from JFK to Paris appeared in Brooklyn federal court today. News 4 New York’s Charles Watson reports. 

NYPD ESU officers speak with NBC New York’s Marc Santia after a heroic rescue on the Brooklyn Bridge. 

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.