Latest in Flatlands

BP Reynoso gives Brooklyn Chamber $20K to fund Southeast Brooklyn small biz 

May 6 | Jaime DeJesus

Borough President Antonio Reynoso on Friday showed support for the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and small businesses in Southeast Brooklyn by presenting the organization with a $20,000 check in funding earmarked for the neighborhood. The money will support the Chamber of Commerce’s Neighborhood Economic Development Division (NED) program. NED supports commercial revitalization activities in commercial […]

New MTA unit formed to help dozens of families left behind by COVID-19 deaths

August 4 | Jose Martinez, THE CITY

This story was originally published on June 25 by THE CITY. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning. When Joseph Fletcher died in April from COVID-19, he left behind a wife, three children and countless questions for them about where to turn next. Fletcher, a 60-year-old […]

Murder-suicide in Flatlands leaves two dead and one injured

November 11 | Noah Goldberg

A violent weekend that began with a public shootout in Crown Heights on Friday night ended in a tragedy in a Flatlands apartment on Sunday, when a man killed his ex-girlfriend, shot another man and then killed himself, police said Sunday. Police responded to a call of shots fired on Sunday afternoon in an apartment […]