Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Central Brooklyn
Outside the apartment on Ocean Avenue where a shooting and stabbing occurred last night (Via NYC911News LLC)FLATBUSH DITMAS PARK – A shooting and slashing incident in a Flatbush apartment last night left one man dead and one hospitalized. Around 10:30 pm, police received a 911 call of an assault
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – Off-duty NYPD officer Ernesto Marks, 37, was arrested last night around 1:45 am, police confirmed. He was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing. GREENPOINT – Later that night, another off-duty cop was arrested, this time in North Brooklyn. Emel Lyndl Alegre, 34, was arrested around 2:00 am, and
Central Brooklyn
Kids dance in the sunset at the new Domino Park in Williamsburg, which opens this weekend (Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)North Brooklyn’s Domino Park on the waterfront [https://ny.curbed.com/2018/6/6/17431462/williamsburg-brooklyn-domino-park-james-corner-field-operations-photos] opens this weekend, making good on ambitious designs for the public esplanade. [/domino-park/] While
Bay Ridge
The corner of 86th Street and Fourth Avenue will soon feature an elevator as accessibility work at the 86th Street station kicks off this month (Screenshot via Google Maps)BAY RIDGE – Accessibility is coming to the Bay Ridge subway system as the MTA announces plans to begin installing elevators at
midwood
1122 Chestnut Avenue in Midwood, where a man was found stabbed and slashed in his apartment (Screenshot via Google Maps)MIDWOOD – Last night, a man was found slashed and stabbed to death in his bed in a Midwood apartment building. Around 10:25 pm on Wednesday, June 6, police received
Announcements
Councilmember Brad Lander announced new legislation for safe streets along with local (Via CM Lander’s Office)PARK SLOPE – Yesterday, Councilmember Brad Lander announced new legislation aimed at keeping dangerous drivers off the road—especially those who have racked up multiple violations within a year. The legislation comes after the
Central Brooklyn
Outside 529 East Flatbush last night, where a top-floor fire claimed the lives of two residents (Via NYC911News LLC)DITMAS PARK – Two Ditmas Park residents are dead after a fire broke out on the sixth floor of their apartment building late last night. The blaze broke out on the top
Dyker Heights
The crash at 68th and 8th in Dyker Heights last night (Via NYC911News LLC)DYKER HEIGHTS – Two cars slammed into each other at the intersection of 68th Street and 8th Avenue in Dyker Heights last night, propelling one of the vehicles into a nearby storefront and the other into a
Boerum Hill
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BOREUM HILL – Sometimes, fake fights turn out bad. Yesterday, Xavier Guerrero, a physical education teacher at Khalil Gibran International Academy, was arrested after a playfight with two male students turned into a
Central Brooklyn
The sky alight over a North Brooklyn Street (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Construction is back underway [/lawsuit-temporarily-halts-broadway-triangle-construction/] at Broadway Triangle, and the city has put out a request for proposals from developers to build affordable housing [https://therealdeal.com/2018/06/04/city-seeks-developers-for-affordable-housing-projects-at-broadway-triangle/] at one of the development sites. Affordable housing
community
Greenpoint’s McGolrick Park will once again host a farmer’s market in the park proper, starting this weekend (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – The McGolrick Park farmers market will return to park grounds this weekend after being briefly sidelined by construction. Community opposition to the move was instrumental in reversing
Coney Island
This Thursday, Councilmember Mark Treyger (D-47) will introduce a resolution to the City Council asking members to call on the State Legislature and Governor Cuomo to ban guns from being used as prizes in raffles or giveaways in New York. Earlier this year, the Brooklyn Friends of the NRA (National