Crown Heights

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.

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…

Adams had multiple electronics seized Monday evening by the FBI, a campaign lawyer and the first-time mayor confirmed.

The FBI has seized Mayor Eric Adams’s cellphones as the investigation into his chief campaign fundraiser continues. News 4’s Melissa Russo reports.

Mayor Adams is fielding more questions about the FBI raid at one of his top campaign fundraisers. News 4’s Melissa Russo reports.

The FBI searched a house in Brooklyn belonging to a chief fundraiser for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to sources familiar with the matter, in what appears to be a campaign finance-related investigation.

New York Mayor Eric Adams reacted Thursday night to news that the FBI searched the home of his chief fundraiser.

The FBI descended on a home in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn on Thursday as part of a campaign finance investigation involving Brianna Suggs, Mayor Eric Adams’ key fundraiser.

The FBI is searching a house in Brooklyn, according to an FBI spokesperson, in what appears to be a campaign finance-related investigation.

The FBI searched a house in Brooklyn belonging to a chief fundraiser for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to sources familiar with the matter, in what appears to be a campaign finance-related investigation.

Rana Novini reporting on the brutal attack against an MTA bus driver.

Investigators said the driver announced the bus was going out of service and all passengers needed to get off. That’s when he saw the suspect stay on the bus, and when the driver went up to ask if he needed help, the suspect punched him several times and poured a bottle of lighter fluid on him. NBC New York