Torrential rain battered Brooklyn on Thursday, flooding streets, submerging cars and leaving at least one person dead as parts of the borough saw nearly three inches of rainfall in just three hours. The city remained under a wind advisory until noon Friday,

Torrential rain battered Brooklyn, flooding streets on Thursday, submerging cars, and leaving at least one person dead.

“The rain blows in and brings all of these leaves to cover over catch basins and, all of the sudden, you’ve got a flooding situation,” said Aggarwala. “In some of those catch basins there was a foot of wet leaves they had to scrape out in order to get the water to go down the drain.”

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — For the third year in a row, another Brooklyn neighborhood has been named one of the world’s coolest neighborhoods, according to Time Out. This year, Red Hook, the waterfront neighborhood renowned for its eclectic mix of ...

A Republican running for Council in the heavily conservative and orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn has sent out mailers tying Democratic incumbent Simcha Felder to socialist mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani.