Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Bed Stuy
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DUMBO – After an assault on the F train, police have released photos of the suspect they’re searching for, hoping the public can help track him down. Around 4:00 pm on
Bushwick
A picture of the girls from the fundraising page (Via GoFundMe [https://www.gofundme.com/support-renita-vincent-and-their-family?fbclid=IwAR0LdY0zGf420lFYjc2S8aEbeiJJvppSvXBr9VpDtbCdc4GBvFKgdKkArVg] )A fundraiser has been set up to help the family of the two girls who were killed in a Bushwick apartment fire [/two-girls-killed-in-fire-while-visiting-their-grandfather-in-bushwick/] over the weekend. Haley Harris, 8, and Payton Gomez,
Bushwick
Governor Cuomo touring the Gateway Tunnel in North Bergen in October (Via NY Governor’s Office)Yesterday, Governor Cuomo announced that he’d make a midnight inspection of the L train’s Canarsie Tunnel this week in advance of the spring shutdown to make sure there’s no way to
Bay Ridge
Just a few days after the MTA announced they’d raised the speed limits on the N and R trains in Brooklyn, things have come to a screeching halt. This morning, the MTA tweeted that D, N, R and W lines would experience “extensive delays” due to switch problems at
Bushwick
Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopBUSHWICK – The DOT has revealed its plans for Citi Bike coverage expansion into Bushwick help mitigate the effects of the L-train shutdown: just five temporary stations coming to the neighborhood this winter. Two stations will be located near L train stops, at Jefferson and
Carroll Gardens
Outside 9 Douglas Street, where a traffic collision killed a member of a film crew (Screenshot via Google Maps)CARROLL GARDENS – A 63-year-old man was hit and killed by a driver in Carroll Gardens early this morning as he helped prepare for a film shoot, police confirmed. The victim, Pedro
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
bath beach
In Bath Beach, two homicides claimed the lives of two men in on Sunday, including an FDNY firefighter. In the early hours of Sunday, December 9, police said Faizal Coto, 33, was involved in a possible road-rage confrontation that ended in his death. Responding to a 911 call of a
Central Brooklyn
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Bushwick
DOWNTOWN – A 14-year-old boy was robbed while changing trains in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station last week and police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the culprit. The robbery occurred around 10:40 am on Thursday, November 29, police said. The victim was transferring from the A
Central Brooklyn
Yesterday, the “smoke a joint, save the subway” [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/nyregion/marijuana-legalized-nyc-subway.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion] method of using potential tax revenue from legalized marijuana was proposed by a new study. Today, a Brooklyn lawmaker said there’s a better way to use the
Bed Stuy
A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)As discussions swirl about the possible legalization of marijuana and what it could mean for local residents [/espinal-marijuana-tax/], the Brooklyn District Attorney has announced two events to help Brooklynites erase past low-level marijuana convictions. Next
Health
In response to a new study calling for the taxation of legalized marijuana to help fund the spiraling MTA [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/nyregion/marijuana-legalized-nyc-subway.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion] , one Brooklyn politician has called the proposal “misguided” and “tone deaf,” arguing that the money should be
hate crimes
UPDATE (12/5/18): Police have announced that a suspect in the attack on a Jewish man last week has been arrested on charges of committing a hate crime. Enrique Gerena, 32, was arrested by NYPD for third-degree assault as a hate crime for sucker-punching a 33-year-old man on Throop
Bed Stuy
The corner of Marcus Garvey and Pulaski, near where one of yesterday’s shootings took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)Yesterday, two fatal shootings in Bed-Stuy claimed the lives of two men a few blocks apart, just after the NYPD announced another historic drop in overall homicide rates. The first
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] PARK SLOPE – A homeless woman was stabbed in the torso at the 15th Street and Prospect Park subway station early yesterday morning, police said. Around 5:00 am on Tuesday, December 4,