Brooklyn

New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul said, “New York’s gun safety laws apply to everyone.”

One of O'Shae Sibley's friends, who witnessed the attack and tried to save him, said “they murdered him because he’s gay, because he stood up for his friends.”

The march over the Brooklyn Bridge was part of a global solidarity movement that has flourished in the city with the most Israelis outside of Israel.

The guilty plea comes more than five years after Daskal was first arrested and charged with sex crimes related to the alleged abuse of a girl.

Ari Halberstam, 16, was murdered on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994 by Rashid Baz, who also fired upon 14 other Jewish teens in a van.

Conservative journalist Elad Eliahu, 29, was reportedly on a first date last month in Brooklyn when a bartender allegedly told him to leave while calling him a "Zionist fascist."

Among those on the 51-member council who did not support the measure was Shahana Hanif, a representative of the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park and Park Slope. 

Some of the biggest night club venues in Brooklyn can hold thousands of people. Silo, by contrast, holds only 500, which carries a more intimate feel.

Lapidus Stern is well known in Israel and internationally for her colorful and imaginative oil paintings. Many of them are on permanent exhibition, others in private collections.

62-year-old Weng Sor of Las Vegas has been accused of deliberately plowing into pedestrians and bike riders in multiple locations in Monday's rampage through two Brooklyn neighborhoods.