Brownsville

Police said someone opened fire inside a Brownsville building, with a bullet striking the shoulder of a 12-year-old boy. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A 12-year-old boy was shot while in the entrance of a building in Brooklyn, according to police sources.

A 9-year-old girl lost her life in a Brooklyn house fire early Friday — a tragedy that has the neighborhood reeling. Firefighters responding to a 5:30 a.m. call about the blaze at the three-story building on Howard Avenue in Brownsville found the injured child on the top floor, which appeared to sustain the worst damage. She was taken to a…

A Brooklyn community is mourning the death of a 9-year-old girl killed in a house fire Friday morning. Gaby Acevedo reports.

The NYPD and the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said that 32 alleged members of two rival gangs, accused in 19 shootings, were arrested following a two-year investigation.

NYPD busted alleged members of two rival gangs that have terrorized Brooklyn neighborhoods. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

One of the victims died. Pei-Sze Cheng reports from the scene in Brownsville.

Two men in their 40s were shot at a Brooklyn restaurant early Thursday and one later died, law enforcement sources say. The Brownsville gunfire erupted at the intersection of Strauss Street and Lott Avenue around 8:30 a.m., according to the sources. They said the victims were shot inside or in front of Miguel’s, a West Indian restaurant that has...

Law enforcement converged on the scene in Brownsville Thursday morning.

A 70-year-old employee at a Brooklyn laundromat was beaten with a hammer as he tried to stop a suspect from stealing from the business, according to police.

A violent man is in the wind after attacking a city parks employee from behind and repeatedly striking her with a metal folding chair, officials said Saturday. The reportedly unprovoked attacked occurred outside the Betsy Head Pool in Brooklyn around 8 a.m. Saturday, according to police and NYC Parks officials. The 38-year-old woman had been operating a leaf blower to…

A new wave of violence rattles neighborhoods as communities across the tri-state try to stop the violence. Anjali Hemphill and Checkey Beckford report.

A 9-year-old girl was grazed in the head after a shooter fired a BB gun as the young child sat on a bench with her grandmother — just down the block from where two of the victim’s family members were killed by gunfire.

Anjali Hemphill live from Brooklyn, where a 9-year-old girl was shot by a playground.

A Brooklyn man was indicted for sexually assaulting a woman twice in May, as well as raping a 13-year-old girl in 2021, according to the district attorney.

A police officer was caught in the crossfire when gunfire erupted in Brooklyn today. Adam Harding reports.

The officer was traveling in a patrol car when two groups of people got into an argument and one person pulled out a gun and started firing. The officer was struck in the left arm. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

New 4 New York’s Myles Miller with the breaking news.

An NYPD officer was shot in the arm in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon, with the suspect still on the run, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

Surveillance cameras captured the moment a suspect calmly snuck up behind a 16-year-old girl walking into a Brooklyn deli and then — for no apparent reason — stabbing her in the back before calmly walking away.