With white tin ceilings, original woodwork, bay windows, and a $699,000 price tag, the two-bedroom apartment at 719 Carroll St. in Brooklyn would have been snatched up in a New York minute a couple of years ago.

The city’s ultra-Orthodox Jews took the Pennsylvania Amish on a walking tour of their world Tuesday, saying their communities are naturally drawn to each other with a commitment to simpler lifestyles.

It’s two-headed cow vs. the lizard man as dueling freak shows are set to battle it out on Brooklyn’s famed Coney Island Boardwalk. A West Coast sideshow act wants to set up shop just two blocks away from Coney Island’s reigning oddball act famous for its

Ringed by massive red brick walls, the Convent of Mercy rose during the Civil War. Two decades later, the Brooklyn Bridge opened. And more than four decades passed before the Empire State Building appeared on the Manhattan skyline seen from the windows of

A reputed mob assassin is on trial in Brooklyn on charges he killed five people in gangland violence going back decades.

In rapper Biggie Smalls’ old Brooklyn neighborhood, the building that once housed a coin laundry is now a plastic surgeon’s office. A block away, a wine bar sells “artisanal” cheeses and meats.

A federal judge in Brooklyn has rejected a Liberian woman’s religious reasons for smuggling endangered monkey meat into the country.

Authorities in New York City say a bus matron eager to get to an appointment knowingly stranded a disabled man on a bus where he spent an icy night alone in Brooklyn.

A man accused of shooting and killing a police officer during a Brooklyn traffic stop has been convicted of murder, attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

One of three men accused of killing a police officer and wounding his partner during a traffic stop in Brooklyn has been acquitted of aggravated murder and attempted murder.