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After Dorothy Day's death in 1980, her biographer William Miller wrote her obituary for America, noting that "the amazing thing about her life was the improbability of it all."

Brooklyn City Council Member Ari Kagan is apparently pulling the old switcheroo on the borough's Democrats.

The Brooklyn Dem declared victory on Wednesday, more than a week after Election Day results showed her in a close race against Republican Vito Labella for a newly drawn Senate district.

Democratic leaders expected to keep at least 40 out of the Senate’s 63 seats in the wake of an election that followed a chaotic redistricting process and saw GOP candidates topple several sitting Dems in both chambers.

Ethan Holder, a teacher's aide at a Brooklyn elementary school, was shot dead last week. Then he saved six other people.

Ethan Holder was walking home along Avenue M toward Utica Avenue in Flatlands just before 3 p.m. when another teen, Javier Oates, shot him in the head, police...

A decade after Superstorm Sandy pummeled New York and New Jersey in one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, the federal government is proposing a $52

The proposal for 12 movable sea barriers across waterways like Jamaica Bay replaces a disputed plan for a single, larger outer-harbor wall.

A decade after Superstorm Sandy pummeled New York and New Jersey in one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, the federal government is proposing a $52 billion plan to build movable barriers and gates across bays, rivers and other waterways in the two states hardest hit by the storm. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing building moveable sea gates that would remain open during calm periods and be closed when major storms approach. The proposed barriers have drawn opposition from prop...

A decade after Superstorm Sandy pummeled New York and New Jersey in one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, the federal government is proposing a $52