Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Central Brooklyn
Looking north on Flatbush Avenue, near where Friday night’s pile-up occurred (Screenshot via Google Maps)FLATBUSH – A horrifying multi-car crash on Friday night sent eight people to the hospital, with two in critical condition, after a drunk driver slammed into a car while speeding down Flatbush Avenue near Farragut
Central Brooklyn
Two tragic deaths struck in Brooklyn over the weekend—a man found dead from a gunshot in Flatlands and a man accidentally killed while being detained in a Flatbush store. Outside the Avenue K and 39th Street apartment where a man was found dead from a gunshot wound last Friday
East New York
Outside the Fire Lounge hookah bar, where a suspect fired a gun into the air over the weekend (Screenshot via Google Maps)GOWANUS – Police are looking for the hothead who fired shots in the air outside a Gowanus hookah lounge over the weekend. The incident occurred at 2:15 am
Central Brooklyn
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Business
Throttle-style e-bikes will remain banned in New York, while expensive pedal assist bikes may be legalized by the DOT (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last year, Mayor De Blasio announced a crackdown on e-bikes, stating that NYPD would begin issuing tickets to riders and confiscating electrically powered bikes, which have been illegal
Gowanus
SUNSET PARK – Police are looking for a suspect who engaged in an act of public lewdness on a southbound N train earlier this week. According to reports from a 31-year old woman, the man boarded the N train at 59th Street Station in Sunset Park, and sat across from her,
Central Brooklyn
Good weather and bad subways could mean more bike ridership in Brooklyn (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) * Sketchy Subways: Man Draws Every New York City Subway Station [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/drawing-every-new-york-city-subway-station] [Atlas Obscura] * Taco Bell Gets Boozy in Bushwick [https://patch.com/new-york/bushwick/new-bushwick-taco-bell-now-serving-boozy-slushies] [Patch] * Gentrification, Policing, and the
News
Councilmember Antonio Reynoso addresses those gathered for the inaugural “Bike Train” commute over the Williamsburg Bridge (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)WILLIAMSBURG – At the corner of Hope and Union this morning, about 30 cyclists gathered at 8:00 am, drinking coffee and listening to music on a portable speaker before their commute.
Central Brooklyn
Erasmus Hall High School is located at 911 Flatbush Ave. (Photo/ Google Maps) FLATBUSH – An Erasmus Hall High School teacher has been arraigned on a 25-count indictment charging him with sexually abusing a 16-year old boy on multiple occasions, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced yesterday. Mervyn Affoon, 66, a business
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Bensonhurst
Firefighters work to contain the blaze in a Bensonhurst home (Via NYC 911 NEWS LLC)BENSONHURST – A four-alarm fire is burning in a Bensonhurst residence, FDNY confirmed this afternoon. As of 4:45 pm, the fire on the second floor was not yet under control, said the FDNY. There have
Greenpoint
The long-awaited North Brooklyn Traffic Study, a project from the NYC Department of Transportation, funded in conjunction by Councilmember Stephen Levin (D-33), has finally arrived. Last night, DOT staff presented their findings and recommendations to Community Board 1 in Williamsburg—which elicited mixed reactions from residents, who packed the meeting
Central Brooklyn
Euzebelin Abellard will serve 20 to life for the slaying of Jean Claude Bernagene (Via District Attorney’s Office)Euzebelin Abellard, 35, of Crown Heights, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison today for the 2015 murder of a man inside an alleged East Flatbush gambling den, District