Brooklyn teacher under fire for social media comments: 'Let Gaza burn'
Robert Rossicone, a teacher at P.S. 104 in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, is under fire for allegedly writing “Let Gaza burn" and “there are no innocents" on his personal Instagram page.
Fort Hamilton renames Robert E. Lee street for Black war hero
A street inside New York City's only U.S. Army base now bears the name of a Black Medal of Honor recipient rather than Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Con Edison asks residents in parts of NYC to conserve power
More than 95,000 Con Edison customers in parts of Brooklyn are asked to conserve power as an issue with the power grid is impacting several neighborhoods.
Protests over ICE arrest
An Ecuadorean restaurant worker making a delivery to an Army garrison in Brooklyn wound up being detained June 1 after a routine background check at the gate revealed there was a warrant for his arrest for immigration law violations, officials said.
NYC church removes Robert E. Lee plaque
For more than 100 years, a plaque stood outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, marking a tree planted by Robert E. Lee in the 1840s when he was stationed at the U.S. Army's Fort Hamilton before joining the Confederacy and becoming a general in the Confederate Army.