Ana Lucia is a reporter and covers the Latinx community in Brooklyn.
Arts & Culture
The cover of “SalviYorkers” displays a photo of Geronima Campos, a Salvadoran woman who lived in New York. Courtesy of Carmen Molina-Tamacas.They’ve filled jobs in media [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7L0LhEd0GI] and construction [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/business/economy/salvadoran-immigrant-workers.html] , here in
Bensonhurst
BENSONHURST — At 10:00 a.m. yesterday, a woman parked her 2002 Toyota RAV4 outside a commercial strip in Bensonhurst. She entered a store near 2211 86th Street, leaving her 11-year-old son in the back seat with the car still running. Photo of car from surveillance footage. Courtesy of DCPI.
Central Brooklyn
Barbershop on Church Avenue. Liena Zagare/BklynerUPDATE – 2/20/2020 – This stabbing has been reclassified as murder, NYPD informs. FLATBUSH — Someone stabbed 19-year-old Mamadou Bah of Beverly Road in Flatbush last night. On Tuesday, February 18 at 8:00 p.m. police received a 911 call from an employee of
brownsville
Andre Clarke. Courtesy of DCPI.BROWNSVILLE — On Sunday morning, cops arrested 45-year-old Andre Clarke of Staten Island and charged him with brutally raping an 11-year-old girl in Brownsville. Clarke was found at a hotel in Queens after calling himself in. Clarke is accused of raping the 11-year-old daughter of the
brownsville
Suspects were caught on video near the site of the crime. Courtesy of DCPI. BROWNSVILLE — Police are looking for two men who raped and assaulted a 34-year-old woman on Saturday, February 1, 2020, around 9:45 p.m. near Williams Avenue and East New York Avenue in Brooklyn. The suspects
brownsville
Three people went missing in Brooklyn over the holiday weekend. Cops are asking anyone who has seen these people to come forward with any information that may help bring them home. BROWNSVILLE — A 13-year-old girl went missing on Valentine’s Day last week. Unique Beyah of Amboy Street in Brownsville
homicide
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Almost a decade after a Bed-Stuy homicide, police released a photo of a suspect. On September 19, 2011, around 9:45 p.m., police responded to a 911 call about a man shot in front of 977 Greene Avenue in Brooklyn. That man was 22-year-old Jamal Singleton. He was
Arts & Culture
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Workshop participants at Mixteca’s mural. Courtesy of Mixteca.SUNSET PARK — Veronica Rosales was born and raised in Sunset Park. She first heard of Mixteca [http://www.mixteca.org/] when she was about 10 years old and her mom signed Rosales and her sister up
canarsie
1690 Ralph Avenue. Via Google Maps.UPDATE: As of 03/04/2020, police have identified the victim as 22-year-old Dontae Mckenzie of Queens. FLATLANDS/CANARSIE — Yesterday evening, a young man was found with a gunshot wound to his chest in front of the Glenwood NYCHA housing complex. Yesterday, February 11,
Arts & Culture
Whether you’ve lived in Brooklyn your whole life or are a transplant, we all have an obligation to learn about our borough’s Black history. Brooklyn on its own would be the largest Black city in America — over 800,000 African Americans live in the borough, the last Census
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE — A 13-year-old boy was robbed in his apartment building in Brownsville last Friday. On Friday, January 24, around 4:30 p.m., an unidentified man entered the Howard Houses NYCHA complex at 1548 East New York Avenue and followed the victim, a 13-year-old resident of the complex, into an