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New York City Department of Health is investigating multiple dog deaths possibly linked to a rat-transmitted illness, and a popular Brooklyn park has been closed as officials investigate. At least four pets have experienced symptoms close to leptospirosis, a bacterial disease spread through urine, especially from rodents and farm animals. Leptospirosis can be a life-threatening disease in canines. For humans,…

In a brazen move captured on surveillance video, a suspect allegedly groped a young woman walking alone on a Brooklyn street and then beat her to the ground when she tried to fight back

The NYPD is looking for a groping suspect who punched a woman who tried to fight back. Jessica Cunnington reports.

The firetruck was responding to multiple calls of a fire, when it collided with the side of the blue minivan, the side and front of which sustained heavy damage.

The crash occurred around 3 p.m. in Williamsburg, leaving 10 people hurt as the firetruck was en route to an emergency. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

Three people were shot and the suspect is dead following a Brooklyn home invasion Thursday afternoon, police sources said. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Police officials said that the suspect is dead in the Thursday afternoon home invasion in Williamsburg, and that a male victim is critically injured. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Three people were shot and the suspect is dead following a Brooklyn home invasion Thursday afternoon, police sources told NBC New York.

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.

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…

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.

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.