Police & Fire
> Brooklyn: 3801 Nautilus Ave. (Seagate) @FDNY [https://twitter.com/FDNY] operating at a 2nd Alarm Fire in A Synagogue pic.twitter.com/KYKqv3V8qf [https://t.co/KYKqv3V8qf] — NYRRT (@NYRRT) April 13, 2017 [https://twitter.com/NYRRT/status/852390297015332865] A blaze interrupted overnight worshippers celebrating Passover at a synagogue in
Announcements
(Photo via Dan Donovan’s office)Next week, the 11th Congressional District will get two separate town hall meetings to discuss legislative issues and ask questions about how federal policy will play out in their neighborhoods. But one will be held without the district’s congressman. On Wednesday, April 19
Business
Boro President Eric Adams with reporter Emily Smith at the Kensington Stables. (Photo via BPEricAdams/twitter)City officials are leading the charge to save the historic Kensington Stables from condo developers bidding since the building went up for sale in February [/historic-kensington-stables-sold-bankruptcy-auction-week/]. The stable was pulled from a bankruptcy auction
Central Brooklyn
Lott Street near Albemarle Road. (Screenshot via Google Maps)Last night, a 20-year-old man was shot and killed in the doorway of his Flatbush home. Tyler Alphonso answered his door on Lott Street by Albemarle Road and was shot in the chest, cops say. Police arrived on the scene just
Nonsponsored
(Photo via Wikipedia)At the end of April, the second busiest train station in Bay Ridge is slated to close for six months for major MTA station renovations [/three-r-line-stops-will-close-for-half-year-in-total-makeover/]. But in the meantime, neighbors have unanswered concerns about how the MTA will step up bus service during that construction. In
Central Brooklyn
Qathra backyard on a sunny afternoon. (Photo by Carly Miller)It’s just too gorgeous out to do anything indoors today. To kick off summer weather 2017 (especially before the summer heat waves start), we’ve compiled a list of the definitive places in our neighborhood (and immediately outside its
![Robbery Spree By Police Impersonator In Southern Brooklyn [Updated]](/content/images/size/w600/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-11-at-12.26.46-PM.png)
Police & Fire
Robbery locations from April 6 to April 11. (Map pins by BKLYNER)[Update 4/12: Arcelay Camilo of Bensonhurst has been arrested and charged with robbery and criminal impersonation, said cops.] Help cops find 36-year-old Arcelay Camilo, suspected of impersonating a police officer and then robbing five stories in Bensonhurst
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny’s Office, 2015)On Friday, a former Coney Island pol was indicted for involvement in a scheme pumping $6.3 million in narcotics onto the black market, officials said. Alec Brook-Krasny, formerly representing Coney Island, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Brighton Beach, was charged, along with
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(Photo via metalsharkboats/instagram)Set sail for summer, Brooklyn! The South Brooklyn route of the citywide ferry [http://www.ferry.nyc/](now the NYC Ferry) connecting Bay Ridge, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Red Hook, and Brooklyn Bridge Park to Wall Street, is set to launch on June 1, officials say.
Big Story
(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)“Stop Dumping On Us” shouted local pols, civic leaders, and advocates this morning near the site of a 27,000-gallon diesel oil spill into the Gravesend Bay last week [/breaking-oil-spill-dumps-27000-gallons-toward-gravesend-bay/] — shaming environmental protection agencies for failing to notify them about the spill. “The Gravesend Bay
![[Updated: FOUND] Midwood Teen Missing From Fort Hamilton High School](/content/images/size/w600/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-07-at-8.19.08-AM.png)
Central Brooklyn
Photo via NYPD[Update from NYPD at 3:45pm: Anderson Ortiz has been found and is safe] Help cops find a 15-year-old boy from Midwood missing since Monday. Anderson Ortiz, 15, was last seen at Fort Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge, on April 3 at 8am, said cops. Ortiz
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via NYPD)Yesterday, cops found a surprising bounty in a Flatbush apartment: a loaded handgun, crack cocaine, and a foot-long South American lizard. Emergency service units and field intelligence officers busted into an apartment on East 21st Street near Woodruff Avenue, with a search warrant, just before 6:30am