Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Downtown Brooklyn
SUNSET PARK – After a horrifying knife assault that severed a woman’s arm and two of her fingers in Sunset Park [/friday-crime-blotter-14/] last week, police have arrested the alleged perpetrator. Yong Lu, 35, was arrested yesterday on Sunday, June 24, said police. Lu was charged with attempted murder, two counts
Central Brooklyn
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Greenpoint
GREENPOINT – Police are looking for the suspect who assaulted and attempted to rape a woman yesterday afternoon in Greenpoint. The attack came around 3:30 pm yesterday, June 21, in the vicinity of Meeker and Kingsland Avenues, near the BQE. A man knocked at the door of the victim’s
Central Brooklyn
A very good boy on a skateboard in Coney Island last weekend (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Earlier this week, Crown Height’s tenants rallied to protest the sale of their building [https://patch.com/new-york/prospectheights/slumlords-tenants-fear-pending-sale-means-gentrification] from the current slumlord owner to a major investment company amid fear of gentrification.
Bushwick
Protestors brought the last CB 4 meeting of the season to a halt in opposition of gentrification (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BUSHWICK – The last Community Board 4 meeting before the summer break was expected to go smoothly: a presentation on zoning changes, the election of new board leaders, and an update
Bushwick
142 Grove Street in Bushwick, a Silvershore Properties building where a tenant took an unusual approach to getting his security deposit back… (Via PropertyShark)LOCATION – After Seth Callaway moved out of his apartment in Bushwick, he expected to get his security deposit back in a reasonable amount of time. Unfortunately,
Central Brooklyn
The hate crime took place as a 22-year rabbinical student was making his way from the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights (Screenshot via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS – Two men who attacked a Jewish rabbinical student in Crown Heights earlier this year have been charged with assault
Announcements
For most New Yorkers, smoking marijuana in public will now result in a ticket instead of an arrest (Photo by dankdepot/Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/dankdepot/5457588074/])Yesterday, Mayor Bill de Blasio formally announced a long-expected change in New York City’s policing policy towards marijuana smoking in
Bed Stuy
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DOWNTOWN – NYPD Officer Michael Martinez, 40, was arrested and charged on multiple accounts after allegedly misrepresenting his income to pay less in child support. An 11-year veteran of the force, Martinez shorted
Central Brooklyn
Prospect Park’s Long Meadow on a clear Sunday afternoon (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) Despite the sunny weekend perfect for park visits, it looks the like the toxic algae bloom is back in Prospect Park Lake [https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/41/25/dtg-prospect-park-lake-algae-bloom-2018-06-22-bk.html] for the fifth year running—don’
News
Assemblyman Joe Lentol at a groundbreaking in North Brooklyn last year (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)With the closure of the Canarsie Tunnel—aka the L Train Shutdown—now less than a year away, politicians are beginning to get serious with the MTA about the details of how the organization plans to
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – Even as the city responds to community organizing for better parks in Brownsville, a new report shows significant failures in access and upkeep—and warns that a planned upgrade may temporarily create a serious open space vacuum in the Brooklyn neighborhood. The report from New Yorkers for Parks [http: