Jun. 13, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell Eight people were displaced by a two-alarm fire at an East New York home on Thursday evening. Firefighters arrived on the scene on Chestnut Street near Pitkin Avenue just before 5:30 p.m. on June 12, according to the FDNY, as heavy flames and smoke engulfed…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A series of upcoming blood drives in Brooklyn could be a lifeline for New York’s dangerously low blood supply, as the New York Blood Center on Monday declared a blood emergency following a sharp drop in local donations. With less than a one-to-two-day supply of critical blood…
Dec. 23, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell Two separate residential fires left 24 people displaced in East Flatbush over the weekend. On Friday, Dec. 20, shortly before 8 p.m., a two-alarm fire broke out at a single-family home on the 800 block of New York Avenue, near Linden Boulevard. When firefighters arrived…
Jan. 17, 2024 By Adam Daly
Volunteers from the American Red Cross teamed up with the city’s Fire Department on Monday to install 134 free smoke alarms in the homes of Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy residents as part of the charity’s fire awareness campaign.