Police & Fire
Maurice Walker (Image via NYPD)Cops are searching for a 12-year-old boy who went missing from his Gravesend home on Sunday. Maurice Walker was last seen on February 26 at his home on Avenue X, at 10pm, and was reported missing yesterday, February 28. Walker is described by police as
Central Brooklyn
> “Level 1 mobilization” for bomb threat at Midwood High School. Full evacuation. pic.twitter.com/pvoMLOedhg [https://t.co/pvoMLOedhg] — James (@jamzeaton) February 28, 2017 [https://twitter.com/jamzeaton/status/836613372103778307] Midwood High School was evacuated this morning after someone called in a bomb threat to the school on
News
Cops found body parts inside Moses’ apartment at 185 Erasmus Street. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Brooklyn man, who is a registered sex offender, has been indicted for murdering and hacking up his live-in girlfriend, whose remains were reportedly found scattered between a freezer and a waste station in January
Nonsponsored
104 West End Avenue. (Rendering via Rybak Development)Take a peek inside The Wave [http://www.104wavecondo.com/building/rybak/], a luxury condo development in Manhattan Beach that has sold out every unit in the seven-story building for up to $1.6 million. The building’s 48 units were sold-out
Bensonhurst
122 Bay 26th street between Benson and Bath Avenues. (Photo by Carly Miller / BKLYNER)One of the last living legacies of a demolished beach resort town in southern Brooklyn holds a firm grip on the neighborhood’s history and refuses to let go. The fading, deep-green Victorian towering at 122
Central Brooklyn
Derek Goodings (Photo via Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office)On Friday, 28-year-old Derek Goodings was sentenced to 24 years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision after pleading guilty to fatally shooting a man during Brooklyn’s J’Ouvert celebration in 2014. According to the defendant’s testimony, Goodings fired
Police & Fire
Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for a teenage girl who went missing from her Flatbush home on Saturday. Naomi Barker, 14, was last seen on February 25 at 8:45am near East 29th street and Glenwood Road, according to NYPD. She is described by police as a black female, 5
Bensonhurst
Though we were sad to see Rocco’s Calamari’s [/dyker-heights-roccos-calamari-latest-long-time-business-close-shop-bensonhurst/] go last August, maybe it’s not the small business death knell that many neighbors feared. A few weeks ago, the home of former neighborhood Italian stalwart was replaced by the latest in a litany of all you can
Announcements
City Council Member Mark Treyger (L), Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, and DMV Exec. Dep Terri Egan(Photo via Kathy Hochul / twitter [https://twitter.com/nysdmv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw])The Coney Island DMV, which has been shuttered for major renovations [/major-renovations-and-temporary-closure-announced-for-the-coney-island-dmv-bensonhurst/] since October, is now open with modern features and
Police & Fire
> BREAKING: Foot pursuit & takedown on the Belt Parkway in #Brooklyn [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brooklyn?src=hash] #nbc4ny [https://twitter.com/hashtag/nbc4ny?src=hash] https://t.co/zSXieMquYA pic.twitter.com/es9w5yVdxs [https://t.co/es9w5yVdxs] — Steven Bognar (@Bogs4NY) February 23, 2017 [https://twitter.com/Bogs4NY/status/
celebrity
John Travolta filming “The Life and Death of John Gotti” in Bath Beach (Photo via Gina Miraculous)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Portions of the Kosciuszko Bridge to be dynamited [Curbed [http://ny.curbed.
Central Brooklyn
“We need to act up! We have overcome tyranny before,” U.S Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke shouted to the hundreds packed into her town hall event last night, addressing Donald Trump’s first 32 days in office. An estimated 1,000 people packed into the Union Temple of Brooklyn