Largely focusing on Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Sunset Park, the Brooklyn Spectator provides local news coverage of business, politics, education, community events, clubs and organizations, arts, culture, sports, religion, and entertainment. Early issues contain wedding announcements, with photos of brides, as well as engagement announcements. A section devoted to birth announcements also appears as does a death notices section. A "High School Notes" section provides news from area schools while "Service Notes" covers news of local residents serving in the military. Many issues contain photos of car accidents and accident scenes, often with images of critically injured or even dead drivers and passengers. In later issues birth notices and wedding announcements appear with less frequency, in a general "Social Notes" section. Advertisements and photographs appear throughout.