Local officials and Bensonhurst residents came together in a rally on Friday to call on New York City Parks to increase patrols at Seth Low Playground. It comes months after a 22-year-old was stabbed ...

Reaching Out Community Services says it is struggling to keep its community food pantry services going after relocating to 18th Avenue. The executive director says the nonprofit lacked resources all ...

BENSONHURT, Brooklyn (PIX11) — Community members are pushing back on a plan to build a homeless shelter in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. New York City Councilwoman Susan Zhuang says an elderly woman suffered ...

BENSONHURST, Brooklyn (PIX11) — New York City Department of Environmental Protection crews are responding to a water main break in Bensonhurst Wednesday evening. The water main has been shut off, and ...

“I’d rather have someone stab me in the heart,” a Bensonhurst patriarch bellows when he learns his daughter has fallen for a black man in Spike Lee’s 1991 Jungle Fever. In the late ’80s and early ’90s ...

NEW YORK — Brooklyn's Columbus Day Parade marched its way through Bensonhurst on Saturday. The annual event has been a tradition for more than 40 years. Italian flags were waved proudly, both from ...

A 55-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for burglarizing three homes and four businesses in southern Brooklyn, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. John ...