Brooklyn

Busta Rhymes is facing charges after punching a man in the face in Brooklyn, according to police.

New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in Brooklyn, as it shrinks the emergency shelter system built up in response to a surge from the southern border that has been steadily receding in recent months. The last of the roughly 2,000 people living on a windswept tarmac at Floyd Bennett...

A Brooklyn man is facing murder and other charges after allegedly stabbing his wife to death during a jealous rage and attacking the couple’s 15-year-old son with a knife when the teen tried to help his mom, the local district attorney said. Gordon Lewis, 45, of Canarsie, Brooklyn was arraigned on an indictment in which he is charged with second-degree…

Sixteen people, including six firefighters and at least two children, were injured in an early morning fire at a Brooklyn apartment building, the FDNY said. The fire started just after 6 a.m. in a seven-story building at 65 Bay 19th Street in the Bath Beach area, according to fire officials. Three people, including an adult and two children, were found…

Four men accused of damaging a Brooklyn synagogue during a melee that followed the discovery of a secret tunnel at the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Hasidic Judaism are set to stand trial after turning down a plea deal offered by prosecutors. The men face felony criminal mischief charges for their alleged role in a brawl last January that damaged parts...

The NYPD said they are looking for an unusual robbery suspect who has struck nearly a dozen times in Brooklyn and Queens — with how he picks his victims and how the robberies go down certainly being atypical.

The NYPD says they are looking for an unusual robbery suspect striking almost a dozen times in Brooklyn and Queens. News 4 New York’s Marc Santia reports. 

Police were searching for a suspected gunman responsible for killing a dollar van driver in broad daylight on a Brooklyn street. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports. 

A dollar van driver was shot and killed around lunchtime Sunday following a dispute with a second driver, law enforcement sources confirmed to NBC New York. The two dollar van drivers were in Brooklyn’s East Flatbush neighborhood just before 1 p.m. when someone opened fire, police said. One of the drivers, a man in his 20s, was struck in...

Days after it stopped accepting migrant families, Mayor Eric Adams took a tour of Floyd Bennett Field, which has been acting as a shelter for many months. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

A man was shot by police Friday night after allegedly pointing a gun at an NYPD sergeant during a foot chase through Brooklyn. Police said the 50-year-old man ran out of a Canarsie convenience store around 9:45 p.m., just after nearby officers on patrol heard a gunshot coming from the area of East 80th Street and Flatlands Avenue. A number…

The man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway told detectives, “Oh, damn, that’s me,” when he saw video of the attack but said he couldn’t remember anything, according to a transcript released Tuesday. The interview was made public shortly after Sebastian Zapeta, 33, entered a plea of not guilty on murder and arson charges...

A man who authorities say fled to Trinidad and Tobago after shooting an 18-year-old in Canarsie in 2021 was extradited to New York City to face charges in his death, the Brooklyn District Attorney announced Monday. Anthony Regis-Ash, 24, formerly of Brooklyn, was arraigned Wednesday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald Leo on an indictment in which he is charged…

Starting late Friday night and lasting until 5 a.m. Monday, service is suspended on the R line in Brooklyn between 36th Street and Bay Ridge-95th Street, the MTA said.

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.