Bensonhurst

NYPD officer Yvonne Wu was remanded pending a mental capacity examination to see if she understands the charges against her, officials said.

The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation has opened a probe into the death of Jamie Liang, the 24-year-old woman who was allegedly shot and killed by an off-duty NYPD officer who caught her with her ex-girlfriend this week.

Neighbors said Yvonne Wu was shockingly “deadpan, no anxiety” as she talked with police after the deadly shooting.

The off-duty NYPD officer who allegedly shot her ex-girlfriend and killed the ex-‘s new lover when she found them together is a patrol cop who worked midnights and whose annual evaluations exceeded expectations, a senior department official said. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

The off-duty NYPD officer who allegedly shot her ex-girlfriend and killed the ex-‘s new lover when she found them together is a patrol cop who worked midnights and whose annual evaluations exceeded expectations, a senior department official said. Tracie Strahan reports.

The off-duty NYPD officer who allegedly shot her ex-girlfriend and killed the ex-‘s new lover when she found them together is a patrol cop who worked midnights and whose annual evaluations exceeded expectations, a senior department official said.

An off-duty New York City police officer is in custody after authorities allege she shot two women, one of whom she was intimately involved with. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

An off-duty NYPD officer shot her girlfriend and another woman, killing the latter, after she discovered the pair together at a Brooklyn home on Wednesday, police said.

A crucifix vandalized outside of a Brooklyn church and discovered Friday morning is being investigated by the NYPD as a possible hate crime, the Diocese of Brooklyn said. The wooden crucifix displayed at St. Athanasius Roman Catholic Church, located in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, was found face down in the grass next to the school affiliated with the church….

A Jewish group in Bensonhurst organized volunteers to go door-to-door to deliver Passover Seder meals for seniors shut-in for more than a year now. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

A child is dead and a second seriously hurt after they were struck by a hit-and-run driver in a Brooklyn neighborhood Monday morning. The driver later returned and said they didn’t know they hit a child.

A child is dead and a second seriously hurt after they were struck by a hit-and-run driver in a Brooklyn neighborhood Monday morning.

NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Two men were found dead and others had to be evacuated after a carbon monoxide leak was discovered in a Brooklyn building Monday evening, fire officials said.

Nearly 30 people were displaced by a fire that tore through a house in Brooklyn Friday night, authorities said.  The fire broke out on the second floor of a two-story house on 85th Street, near 20th Avenue, in Bensonhurst around 11:30 p.m., the FDNY said.  One firefighter suffered a minor injury as the department worked to put out the...

Dozens of people were displaced after a fire tore through a home in Brooklyn, authorities said. Ken Buffa reports.