Williamsburg

Police in Brooklyn were searching Sunday for the driver of a car that struck and killed a sanitation worker. The incident occurred Saturday morning in Williamsburg. According to police, a 2005 Honda Odyssey struck 52-year-old Angel Aguilar-Duran at about 8 a.m. approximately a block east of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Aguilar-Duran was taken to Bellevue Hospital with head and body injuries…

Police in Brooklyn were searching Sunday for the driver of a car that struck and killed a sanitation worker. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A 47-year-old man has died six days after he was shot in the face when he answered the door at his Brooklyn apartment. Jeroid Tindal was shot March 8 at his apartment in the Independence Towers complex in Williamsburg, police said. He was pronounced dead Sunday at Woodhull Hospital. Police have made no arrests. The Daily News reports that Tindal was...

At least five people were wounded in a shootout at a “pop-up party” in Brooklyn overnight, each suffering injuries to their lower extremities, police said Saturday morning. Gunfire broke out around 4 a.m. at a Williamsburg garage on Flushing Avenue that was converted into a makeshift event space, police said. Responding officers found a 23-year-old woman with a gunshot wound…

In addition to slow sales and strict indoor dining restrictions, NYC restaurants have a lot on their plates — and some are now battling with food delivery apps eating into their profits, or even posting their menus without permission

NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

An hours-long search through a garbage heap was worth it for a group of Brooklyn residents who were finally able to locate a cherished religious item that was accidentally thrown in the trash

A Brooklyn synagogue should be investigated over reports that it hosted a secret wedding with thousands of unmasked guests earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “If that happened, it was a blatant disregard of the law,” Cuomo said during a briefing in New York City. “It’s illegal. It was also disrespectful of the people of...

NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Elected officials and community leaders want guests invited to a 10,000 person wedding in Brooklyn to stay home. Adam Harding reports.

Health officials in New York delivered a ban days before a scheduled wedding after receiving reports that “upwards of 10,000 individuals” were scheduled to attend the ceremony in Brooklyn, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. At his briefing Saturday, the governor explained that state officials received word of a the wedding after the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning against attending…

New York’s health commissioner issued an order barring the mass gathering at a Hasidic synagogue, which would violate the 50 person gathering limit. Myles Miller reports.

Some movie theaters in New York state can reopen starting Oct. 23, Gov. Cuomo announced Saturday. Adam Harding reports.

Many customers at The Graham are often late night workers from the restaurant industry or even MTA workers looking for food after midnight — all whom would be out of luck for late night grub under the governor’s restrictions on hours of operations

NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Divers in Montauk recovered the body of the managing partner of Huckleberry Bar in Williamsburg, after he drowned while trying to get an oar that fell from a rowboat he was in with three others

There is a fight for access to a playground in Brooklyn. The city welded the gate shut of a Williamsburg park to keep children out during the pandemic, but the community says it’s not fair. John Chandler reports.

Police say locks at a Williamsburg playground has been broken more than 25 times after playgrounds were shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

New York City police say two people have been arrested for allegedly tearing face masks off Jewish people in Brooklyn. The NYPD arrested the perpetrators some time after the Sunday night attack near Bedford Avenue and Ross Street in Williamsburg, Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed. Videos posted to social media late Sunday by Williamsburg News and The Belaaz, an NYC-based…