Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School plans to make 500 free condoms available at its prom next month. Read more

Packer Collegiate Institute had been suspended after deficiencies were found in testing at the school this month, but retraining of proctors will allow testing to resume in June. Read more

The police are trying to track down the driver who fatally struck a 33-year-old man who was crossing 72nd Street in Bay Ridge on Monday night. Read more

The blog Gravesend Gazette posted a drawing that Maurice Sendak did for the cover of his junior high school yearbook in 1943, probably at the age of 14. Read more

Metropolitan Diary: One woman’s rant on the parkway that plagues her. Read more

A judge in Brooklyn writes on the Op-Ed page about his willingness to break state law by using marijuana to alleviate the side affects of his treatment for cancer. Read more

The suspect handed his phone to a bank worker, who was told by the person at the other end that the suspect had a gun, the police said. Read more

Here are the submissions illustrating the Manhole Cover Mystery, and a new assignment. Read more

What we’re reading in The Times and elsewhere, including articles about a stabbing in a Brooklyn library and a parody video starring Gov. Chris Christie and Mayor Cory A. Booker. … Read more

The store in Flatbush, Brooklyn, an Art Deco structure with a distinctive 10-story corner tower, is now designated as a landmark. Read more

Some of the city’s star chefs will be displaying their culinary skills as part of the Great GoogaMooga this weekend in Brooklyn. Read more

A print by Maurice Sendak, perhaps his first published illustration, accompanies a classmate’s essay in their high school yearbook. Read more

The last time Barbra Streisand sang solo in Brooklyn she was 7 years old, and a student at a yeshiva. Read more

The borough’s native songbird is coming back for her first performances in the borough in many decades. Read more