In northern Brooklyn some advocacy groups reported numerous complaints about broken machines and the absence of emergency paper ballots.

While the difficulties in northern Brooklyn did not attract much attention because there were no tight races, they left some experts concerned about the next election.

Its goal is to permanently eradicate drug sales in northern Brooklyn, which account for about 20 percent of the city's homicides and shootings.

The new buildings would also help relieve the housing shortage in northern Brooklyn, Jewish leaders said.

There are two things that residents of northern Brooklyn will fight for only slightly less hard than, for example, their lives.

It was a small victory in an ambitious police sweep across northern Brooklyn that began a month ago.

The steerer's bravado is matched by the omnipresence of drugs all over northern Brooklyn.

Last October, the police confirmed that they were investigating a string of murders in northern Brooklyn.

The fire blackened the sky above northern Brooklyn with thick smoke shot through at its base with bright flames a block deep.

The two hospitals serve a diverse, largely low-income swath of northern Brooklyn.