Fire officials said the flames were so hot that they bent the metal beams supporting the roof of the one-story brick building in the Flatlands section.

Youths playing inside the muddy, overgrown lot proposed for a shelter site in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn vowed to protect their turf.

Later that month, the 2-year-old girl went to live in the Ahmeds' apartment in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn.

Today, the family lives in Brooklyn, where Chris and Donna grew up, blocks away from each other, in the Flatlands section.

He was buried under steel and brick on Monday after a roof collapsed during a fire in the Flatlands section.

Filming is under way in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn.

A 21-year-old Brooklyn man was shot to death gangland style in a Chinese takeout restaurant in the Flatlands section last night, the police said.

A lot owned by the transportation agency in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn is being considered.

Then the father, after fleeing the former officer's basement apartment in the Flatlands section, suffered a heart attack on a street corner and died, the police said.

Mrs. DiPaolo declined to identify her son's school, but the family lives in the Flatlands section.