Cypress Hills, a neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, may ultimately get its name from plant life — but the reference comes from a far more morbid source.

NEW YORK - Police are looking for a suspect after an attempted kidnapping in Brooklyn. It happened Sunday afternoon near Pitkin Avenue and Ashford Street in the Cypress Hills section.

Another double shooting rocked Brooklyn on Sunday night as two people, including a teenager, were shot in a Cypress Hills park.

NYC police are investigating a woman's horrifying discovery. She found her friends dead with their necks slashed in their Brooklyn home.

On Cypress Hills streets outside the Highland Park area, there’s old-fashioned architectural eye candy at every turn. Arlington Avenue is an especially rewarding place to walk.

IN August, Debra Kayman bought her first home, a two-family on Ashford Street in Cypress Hills, in the East New York section of Brooklyn. She came to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago in ...

The Brooklyn Public Library is planning on taking its reading rooms outdoors during the next few weeks. Officials said the system would allow patrons to read books or other materials or use the ...

A Cypress Hills landlord has been indicted on charges of attempted murder and arson after he allegedly set fire to an apartment building with tenants inside.

CYPRESS HILLS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Nine people, including seven firefighters, were injured in a fast-moving six-alarm fire that ripped through a row of homes in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn Sunday night.

Three men were shot, one fatally, in a Brooklyn apartment, police said Monday. Shots rang out inside an eight-story building on Atlantic Ave. near Miller Ave. in Cypress Hills about 10:50 p.m ...