Crown Heights

A 21-year-old is facing a litany of charges, including murder, for the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy who was walking home from a basketball game at Barclays Center on Feb. 29, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Jared (Jah Woo) McCauley, of Brooklyn, was arraigned Wednesday on a 13-count indictment in which he is charged with second-degree murder,…

A man was killed after getting clipped by the side of a box truck, then hit again by an SUV driver while crossing a street in Brooklyn, according to police.

Thirteen members of the Hasidic Jewish community have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from their alleged role in a dispute over an illegal tunnel built beneath a historic Brooklyn synagogue. Prosecutors say the defendants committed reckless endangerment and criminal mischief by damaging the synagogue and interfering with police who had arrived. The tunnel was built in secret to expand...

An 11-year-old was among three people shot as deadly gunfire erupted in separate Brooklyn communities late Monday, authorities say. An apartment hallway on Howard Avenue in Brownsville turned into a harrowing scene after the boy was shot in the arm just after 11 p.m., when neighbors reported hearing a loud bang as a group of unsupervised kids were hanging out….

Gabby Acevedo reports on deadly gun violence in Brooklyn.

A 29-year-old man has been arrested on murder, assault and other charges in the death of a toddler who police sources say was found face down in a Brooklyn bathtub over the weekend. Kevin James was taken into custody Monday evening in the case of 3-year-old Denim Brown, who was found unresponsive in the tub on New York Avenue in…

Authorities are investigating what they describe to be the “suspicious” death of a toddler in Brooklyn, who police sources said was found dead in a bathtub. According to the NYPD, officers responding to a New York Avenue home in East Flatbush shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday found the 3-year-old boy unconscious and unresponsive face down in the tub. He had…

A 13-year-old boy walking home from a basketball game at Barclays Center was shot dead in Brooklyn Thursday night, authorities say. The boy was struck four times near the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights shortly before 11 p.m. on his way home from a Nets game. He lived about two blocks from the scene. The NYPD identified the...

A 13-year-old boy was shot and killed near the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Gaby Acevedo reports.

More than a dozen people were injured after a wrong-way driver in Brooklyn rammed into another car and then smashed into an MTA bus with riders on board, according to police and fire officials.

A $10,000 reward is being offered in the case of a Brooklyn deli worker gunned down in broad daylight after an apparent argument, authorities say. Nazim Berry, 37, was pronounced dead at a hospital after the 4:15 p.m. shooting on Franklin Avenue near Lincoln Place in Crown Heights. He had been shot once in the head. The victim’s mother, Danette…

Jessica Cunnington reports.

A 60-foot tunnel found in Crown Heights has been shut down and sealed off. News 4’s Andrew Siff reports. 

New York building officials have issued emergency work orders to stabilize a historic synagogue and its neighboring structures after an illicit underground tunnel was discovered at the sanctuary earlier this week. An investigation by the city’s Department of Buildings uncovered a tunnel that was 60-foot-long, 8-foot-wide and 5-foot-high located underneath the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights, an...

A historic Brooklyn synagogue that serves as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement was trashed this week during an unusual community dispute that began with the discovery of a secret underground tunnel and ended in a brawl between worshippers and police. The conflict erupted in the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights, a deeply revered…

Twelve people were arrested. 

The early morning fire brings the city’s battery-related deaths to 17. News 4’s Rana Novini reports.

A ferocious early morning fire that tore through a Brooklyn brownstone and killed three family members was sparked by a lithium-ion battery, fire marshals determined. FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said the fire claimed “three generations of one family who are an integral part” of the Crown Heights community. The fire tore through the brownstone on Albany Avenue, fully engulfing all…

The cause of the fire still remains under investigation. News 4’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Three people died and a dozen were injured early Sunday morning following a fire at a 3-story residential building in Brooklyn, FDNY officials said. Responding crews found the Crown Heights building on Albany Avenue fully engulfed upon arrival around 5 a.m., FDNY Chief of Operations John Esposito said. All three floors of the residence had “heavy fire,” he said. Once…