Brooklyn students at P.S. 8 in Brooklyn Heights in the 1960s. Photo by Marion S. Trikosko via Library of Congress Charles Isaacs, a former teacher and author of “Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville A ...

Forty years ago — on May 9, 1968 — the local school board in Brooklyn’s black ghetto of Ocean Hill-Brownsville sent telegrams to 19 unionized educators, informing them that their employment ...

where a 31-year-old man was shot in the chest and later died.File photo by Lloyd Mitchell Reports of murder have skyrocketed this year in Brooklyn’s 73rd Precinct, which encompasses Brownsville and ...

Anderson has a very intimate knowledge of problems and violence in Brownsville and Ocean Hill, Brooklyn because of time growing up in the areas “Very few people actually lived on the block ...

In Brooklyn’s 41st City Council District, which includes parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Ocean Hill, two candidates are opposing incumbent Darlene Mealy, who is running for a third ...

“The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn,” a book edited by historians Kenneth Jackson and John Manbeck, identifies the neighborhood you’re now walking through as the Ocean Hill section of Brownsville.

Rev. Edward Mason has seen many changes in Brooklyn during his 37 years in the ministry there — most recently parishioners forced to move due to rising home prices. As pastor of a pair of ...

Police were called to the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Houses at about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday. The officers found a 24-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the chest and a 27-year-old man with a what ...

Amid blocks of empty storefronts in Ocean Hill and Brownsville is a little piece of country living - the Phoenix Community Garden. News 12's Katelynn Ulrich shows us a little strip in the ...

In the fatal shooting, a 21-year-old man was killed and two others wounded in Brownsville ... There was another shooting in the Ocean Hill section of Brooklyn that left three wounded, 1010 ...

The food pantry will be located at P.S. 12 and M.S. 484 in the Ocean Hill Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn – an area where 32% of residents face food insecurity according to NYC Food Policy ...