Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
midwood
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)A string of deaths across Brooklyn struck over the weekend, from a tragic fratricide to the loss of a local singer and artist. EAST MIDWOOD – A 20-year old man is in custody after allegedly throwing his younger brother to his death from the top of their 7-story
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Early Sunday morning, a man climbed onto the cables of the Williamsburg Bridge and began making his way to the top of the vertiginous span—possibly with the intent of jumping off. Luckily, NYPD Emergency Service Units were nearby, and after they got the call of an emotionally disturbed person
Bensonhurst
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] EAST NEW YORK – Last night, at 11:00 pm, police arrested Crystal Wilson, 31, in the 75th Precinct. Wilson, an NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agent, was charged with assault, harassment and disorderly conduct,
Central Brooklyn
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Bensonhurst
BENSONHURST – An 87-year-old man was struck and killed by a Mack truck as he crossed the street in Bensonhurst yesterday, police confirmed. The incident took place Thursday, September 27, around 2:50 pm, at the intersection of 86th Street and 21st Avenue, said police. According to a preliminary investigation, Carmine
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(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Two men are wanted in connection with an armed robbery that took place in the lobby of Prospect Heights building earlier this month. The incident occurred just before 6:00 am on Saturday, September 15, when two suspects followed two men into the lobby of
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WILLIAMSBURG – Seven workers at The Williams, a luxury-rental development in South Williamsburg, are looking for what they’re owed—about $200,000 in back pay, they said. Yesterday evening, outside the building at 282 South 5th Street, members of the 32BJ service workers union gathered in solidarity to rally for
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SUNSET PARK – An argument between two coworkers turned violent, then deadly, this week after a Brooklyn man succumbed to injuries sustained in a fight on Monday. In the early evening of Monday, September 24, police responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress at 140 58th Street, in
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Brandon McNamara, of Queens, was arrested after assaulting two men in Williamsburg over the weekend (Via DCPI)WILLIAMSBURG – Police have arrested a Queens man after an anti-gay assault of two men in Williamsburg last weekend. [/weekend-crime-blotter-sept-24-18/] Brandon McNamara, 25, of Middle Village, surrendered himself to the NYPD at the 7th
Central Brooklyn
60 Clarkson Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)A Brownsville man has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter for stabbing his ex-wife’s girlfriend to death in front of her four children in 2016. [/woman-fatally-stabbed-building-served-local-homeless-shelter-ditmas-park/] Alwasi Tyson, 37, was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for
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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
Announcements
Councilmember Rafael Espinal and “Night Mayor” Ariel Palitz at an event in March of this year (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Nine months after the city created the Office of Nightlife and named the first ever “Night Mayor,” a listening tour of the five boroughs is set to begin—and