New York City Mayor Eric Adams joined elected officials, anti-violence activists and neighbors on Monday for a vigil at the Brooklyn lounge where three people were shot and killed. Police said shots rang out around 3:30 a.

A fatal Crown Heights shooting prompted New York City mayoral candidates to clash over crime policies as city grapples with recent surge in gun violence incidents.

The New York City mayor's race candidates honed in on fighting crime and prostitution after the mass shooting took quality of life issues front and center.

He always brought candy to my kids,” stray bullet victim Amadou Diallo’s sister said. “They loved him like he was their own father.”

The Brooklyn hookah lounge where three people were killed and nine others wounded early Sunday was right at the scene of another shooting less than a year ago. Cops were called to gunfire on the street outside the Taste of the City Lounge on Franklin Avenue near Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights at 4:07 a.

Three people are dead and nine are injured after multiple shooters opened fire in a New York City lounge, the New York City Police Department says.