Big Story
MARINE PARK – A five-alarm fire erupted from a sushi restaurant today morning. Thankfully, nobody was seriously hurt. At about 6:15 a.m., the FDNY got an alarm for a fire inside the E Sushi restaurant at 2118 Flatbush Avenue. Assistant Chief Richard Howe said the “challenging” and “stubborn” fire,
Development
RED HOOK – The Gowanus Landmarking Coalition [https://www.gowanuslandmarks.org] sent out a notice over the weekend showing photos of demolition scaffolding going up around the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse building at 595 Smith Street, a 133-year-old structure that was damaged by a suspicious fire last summer. Photo courtesy
Central Brooklyn
RED HOOK – An FDNY firefighter was arrested yesterday for choking his girlfriend. His girlfriend was also arrested — for choking the firefighter. On Sunday, February 17 at about 11:30 a.m., 34-year-old James Samuel, who was off duty, was arrested and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing and unlawful imprisonment.
Announcements
SEAGATE – Two people were injured in a fire that broke out just after midnight on January 23 at 3709 Laurel Ave on the first floor of the two-story house. The fire was extinguished by about 12:44 a.m. According to the FDNY, two people were hurt but they were
East New York
A fire broke out last night on one of the upper floors in East New York’s Boulevard Houses on Linden Boulevard (Photo via PropertyShark)EAST NEW YORK – Just after midnight on Tuesday, December 18, a fire broke out on the 12th floor of a NYCHA high-rise in East New
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – Two young girls were tragically killed during a visit to their grandfather in Bushwick when a fire broke out in the man’s apartment while they slept. The blaze broke out in Vincente Gomez’s apartment on Schaefer Street just before 11:00 pm on Saturday, December 8, officials
Announcements
Photo: Katie MillerBROOKLYN BRIDGE – One person is dead and five are injured after three cars crashed and erupted into flames on the Brooklyn-bound side of the Brooklyn Bridge this morning at 7:15 a.m. Photo: Katie MillerBoth sides of the bridge were forced to shut down the day before
News
CROWN HEIGHTS – An argument in the Utica Avenue subway station Monday morning spilled onto the street as a man assaulted another with a cane and a knife, police said. The incident occurred around 9:20 am on Monday, September 24, when the suspect struck his 23-year old victim with a
News
SUNSET PARK – A 47-year-old construction worker was buried yesterday afternoon when a 20-foot brick retaining wall collapsed on top of him at a construction site located at 714 39th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues in Sunset Park. > #NYPD [https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYPD?src=hash&ref_src=
Coney Island
Police and firefighters responded to the suicide shortly after 9:00 am at the Ocean Parkway Q platform (Photo courtesy of Daniel Gold)CONEY ISLAND – A man was killed after jumping in front of a northbound Q train this morning at the Ocean Parkway Station, police confirmed. Eyewitnesses told NYPD
Central Brooklyn
The four-story apartment at 291 Buffalo Avenue in Crown Heights, where a fatal fire broke out this morning (Photo via PropertyShark [https://www.propertyshark.com/])CROWN HEIGHTS – A fire broke out in a Crown Heights apartment building early this morning, leaving one person dead and hospitalizing three more. The fire
Announcements
Photo: Google MapsSUNSET PARK – A three-alarm fire at 57th Street and 8th Avenue left five firefighters in the hospital on Monday, July 9. At 2:19 pm, the FDNY responded to a fire at 764 57th Street. According to the FDNY, 33 units and 138 firefighters fought the heavy blaze.
News
RED HOOK – The FDNY has described the two-alarm fire that tore through the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse last month “incendiary.” S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse, 595-611 Smith Street (Photo taken June 15, 2018, the morning after the fire, by Nathan Haselby)The June 14 fire at the warehouse located
Bed Stuy
CONEY ISLAND – A New York firefighter was arrested last night at his home in Coney Island, said police. Nelson Merizalde, 43, an off-duty FDNY firefighter was arrested last night around 11:40 pm, said police. Merizalde was charged with assault after allegedly throwing his girlfriend to the floor during an
Central Brooklyn
WILLIAMSBURG – Police have made an arrest in the death of Jose Osorio, 19, who was shot and killed in Williamsburg last December. The shooting that claimed Osorio’s life [/wednesday-crime-blotter-shooting-death-in-williamsburg-hit-and-run-in-madison-and-more/] took place on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, and left another victim shot in the shoulder. Last week, police arrested Donovan
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – The NYPD confirmed that FDNY EMT Andrew Davis, 23, was arrested while on duty on Tuesday, May 22, for assaulting his girlfriend. Davis was cuffed and charged with assault and harassment after hitting the woman near Classon Avenue and Eastern Parkway around 1:15 am, said police. PROSPECT