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A Brooklyn man has been convicted on hate-crime charges for a brutal 2018 attack on a Jewish man walking home from his synagogue. A jury found James Vincent, 40, guilty of strangulation as a hate crime and assault as a hate crime, among other charges. He faces up to 15 years in prison at his December sentencing. On April 21,…

What happens when some city workers, like those in the Department of Sanitation, refuse to get the shot? Several neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Staten Island are seeing that potential issue play out in an ugly — and smelly — way on their sidewalks

The trooper is accused of deliberately running a driver off the road, killing the driver’s 11-year-old daughter — who was in the car — in the process. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

Several neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Staten Island are seeing trash pile up ahead of the city’s vaccine mandate deadline, amid rumors of a Sanitation Department slowdown. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A New York State Police trooper is facing second-degree murder charges for allegedly ramming a family during a Dec. 2020 pursuit, flipping their car and killing an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl. Attorney General Letitia James announced the indictment of trooper Christopher Baldner by an Ulster County grand jury on Wednesday. Baldner also faces manslaughter and multiple reckless endangerment charges. The union…

New York City’s hate crime task force has launched an investigation after two men allegedly threatened a 17-year-old young man with a knife while making anti-gay and antisemitic statements. Police say the teen was at a gas station on Avenue U in Brooklyn on Wednesday, Oct. 20, when two men in a burgundy Ford van approached him. One of the…

The Brooklyn Diocese has fired a Catholic music school teacher in Queens after he married a man

Most of the 51 seats for New York City Council were effectively decided in the summer primary, but a few were not. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff looks at one tight contest in Bay Ridge.

Police are looking for a man who allegedly went up to a 52-year-old subway rider in a Brooklyn station Friday and demanded his property, then shoved him off the platform onto the trackbed when he refused, authorities say. The straphanger was standing on the platform in the Bushwick Avenue/Aberdeen Street L line station around 4:15 a.m. Saturday when the...

Police in New York City are trying to track down a gunman who shot a woman outside a baby shower Saturday night. Authorities say the shooting occurred just before midnight at an event hall on Atlantic Avenue in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn. The 25-year-old victim was shot four times and is expected to recover, police say. They also…

Police in Brooklyn want help tracking down two men wanted in connection to an anti-Semitic assault that took place near the end of August. The NYPD said the men attacked a 31-year-old victim back on Aug. 28 around 2:30 a.m. in front of Set Lounge on McDonald Avenue. According to the police report, the suspects walked up to the man…

Police say a driver fled from a Brooklyn crime scene overnight after hitting a 63-year-old man and leaving him for dead. Officers responded to a 911 report of a pedestrian struck by a car at Atlantic Avenue and Nostrand Avenue around 3 a.m. Saturday. EMS also arrived the intersection and transported the victim to Interfaith Hospital, but it was too…

Two Brooklyn men were indicted for attempted murder as a hate crime in last month’s gruesome anti-gay attack on two victims who were left with multiple stab wounds and collapsed lungs, the borough’s district attorney announced Friday. Two men waiting for food at a Bushwick bodega on Sept. 4 were brutally attacked and hospitalized following a series of homophobic...

Four men were shot in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood in an area heavily populated by corner stores, pharmacies and other businesses, authorities say. All of the men, three of whom were shot in the leg and one of whom was wounded in his hand, were taken to hospitals after the shooting around 10:30 a.m. on Glenwood Avenue. They are expected...

According to police, four men were shot in the legs and hands on Thursday morning in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

If you are looking for something different this Halloween, how about a trolley tour discovering the haunted, hidden past of New York City? Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours is hosted on a revamped Victorian trolley that explores over 400 years of mayhem in Brooklyn, ranging from unmarked graves to infamous murders. “Madam Morbid’s Trolley Tours is a trolley tour in...

If you’re looking for something different this Halloween, how about a trolley tour discovering the haunted, hidden past of New York City? Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours explore over 400 years of spooky mayhem in Brooklyn. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino reports.

Two attorneys arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles during George Floyd protests in New York City in May 2020 each pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday to a single count of making an incendiary device.

The dead person found wrapped in a black bag on a Brooklyn sidewalk over the weekend has been identified as a 49-year-old from the same borough, the NYPD said early Wednesday, and his death has been ruled a homicide. No cause of death has been released for Christopher Adams, who was discovered by cops responding to a 911 call Saturday…

The NYPD has released surveillance footage of two men who allegedly stole $1.2 million in jewelry from a 67-year-old man’s vehicle trunk in broad daylight in Brooklyn last week in their effort to apprehend the individuals responsible. The man was sitting in his car on 47th Street around 12:30 p.m. Friday when police say the suspects approached him and demanded…