Brownsville

A pair of customers at a Brooklyn restaurant were shot while standing in line for food by gunfire that likely was never meant for them, police said. The bullets were fired into a Brownsville seafood restaurant around 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to police. The gunman opened fire in the Pitkin Avenue eatery where customers were waiting in line. From the…

NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

The alleged serial killer who was arrested Thursday in connection with a series of homicides of elderly women in Brooklyn, may be tied to a fourth slaying as well, the victim’s family believes

There are new questions surrounding the chilling arrest of a man accused of killing three women in his own Brownsville building — as it appears he could be linked to a fourth slaying. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Authorities have made an arrest in connection with a series of homicides of elderly women in Brooklyn, including a 78-year-old woman found strangled in her home last week, NYPD officials said Thursday. The suspect, identified as 66-year-old Kevin Gavin, lived in the same Brownsville public housing building as his three alleged victims, whom he may have befriended by running errands…

Authorities have made an arrest in connection with a series of homicides of elderly women in Brooklyn, including a 78-year-old woman found strangled in her home last week, NYPD officials said Thursday. He’s expected in court Friday. Katherine Creag reports.

Authorities have made an arrest in connection with a series of homicides of elderly women in Brooklyn, including a 78-year-old woman found strangled in her home last week, NYPD officials said Thursday. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A man was shot by police near a park in Brooklyn while wielding a machete following a dispute, two senior NYPD officials told NBC New York

A woman and her dog are expected to recover after they were attacked by an 18-year-old man with a machete in Brooklyn Tuesday. That man was shot and killed by police. News 4’s Katherine Creag reports.

A man was shot and killed by police near a park in Brooklyn after he attacked a woman and her dog with a machete, police said. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A 60-year-old woman was shot in Brooklyn on Friday — she’s the fourth person shot by a stray bullet in the last six weeks. Citizen App video shows an ambulance outside the Tilden Houses in Brownsville where the woman had been shot on the street by a bullet police say was intended for someone else. “First it was two gunshots…

Police said the woman reported that she heard gunshots, and then felt a pain in her leg before she was rushed to the hospital. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

At least five people were injured after two cars collided on a Brooklyn street, sending one of them careening onto the sidewalk where pedestrians stood nearby, police said. The crash occurred after 7 p.m. at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street in Brownsville, the FDNY said. After the two cars — a white sedan and a grey…

At least seven people were rushed to the hospital after three separate shootings across Brooklyn on Monday night. Police say there was a large dispute outside a building on Bristol Street in Brownsville before gunfire broke out around 10:40 p.m. Four people, three men and a woman, were struck by bullets. All three of the men are in stable condition…

Police say there was a large dispute outside a building on Bristol Street in Brownsville before gunfire broke out around 10:40 p.m. Four people, three men and a woman, were struck by bullets.

The video surfaced the same day as a Jewish Orthodox school in Bed-Stuy with around 100 children was shut down, and follows a weekend where crowds were seen hanging around and drinking outside bars in Manhattan

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for a crackdown on social distancing. Meanwhile, the NYPD shut down an Orthodox school in Brooklyn after neighbors reported the school was operating in violation of city and state orders. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

A man who allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl inside her Brooklyn home has been arrested, the NYPD said. Andre Clarke, 45, of Staten Island, was taken into custody at a Queens hotel just after 5 a.m. Sunday, police said. Clarke is accused of repeatedly raping the girl, including an incident that took place around 9 a.m. on Saturday in Brownsville,…

A man who allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl inside her Brooklyn home has been arrested, the NYPD said.

The veteran NYPD officer involved in a deadly shooting at a Brooklyn salon last week has woken up from a medically induced coma on Sunday, the department confirmed to News 4.