Police & Fire
(Screenshot via Google Maps)A 20-year-old man was shot in the cheek inside a Dyker Heights apartment on Tuesday, across the street from a school, cops said. Shots were fired inside a third-floor apartment on Bay Ridge Avenue near 13th Avenue in Dyker Heights, around 2pm on May 9, said
Bensonhurst
Photo courtesy of the Liam McCabe Campaign OfficeCity Council candidate (43rd District) Liam McCabe recently spoke to Dyker Heights residents and business owners over concerns about garbage piling up along 13th Avenue. McCabe says the garbage problems stem from illegal home conversions that are “pushing the limits of the infrastructure
Central Brooklyn
Source: NYPDPolice are searching for a man who went missing from his Kensington home yesterday. Mohammed Basher, 58, was last seen on Tuesday, at 12pm, in his residence on 39th Street near 13th Avenue, according to police. He is 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds, with a thin build,
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13th Avenue
Photo by Mike WrightInvestigators are still sifting through the wreckage of a deadly gas explosion that ripped through a Borough Park apartment building Saturday, leaving one woman dead and another unaccounted for. Authorities believe that the missing woman’s attempt to uninstall a luxury stove may have sparked the blaze
13th ave
The following is a press release from the office of City Councilman David Greenfield: City Renames 13th Ave to Honor World War II Hero Raoul Wallenberg at Urging of Greenfield and Lander Brooklyn – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, one of the great heroes of World War II who is credited with