The Brooklyn Park mayor’s early vision for a vacant swath of land at the city’s northwest corner includes biotech businesses, retail and denser housing for potentially thousands of new employees.

Improbably, Brooklyn Bridge Park exists. That’s not an outcome I would have bet on a couple of decades ago when the waterfront below Brooklyn Heights was a DMZ of flat, hard wharves that spoiled ...

near the center of the Brooklyn park. Fire engines posted near Nethermead meadow. Firefighters worked to determine the fire’s cause while looking out for possible rekindlings, with drones ...