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An Extraordinary Officer: Det. Kim Walker Retires After Serving Flatbush For 22 Years At The 70th Precinct

Det. Kim Walker has retired after 22 years of serving Flatbush and Midwood at the 70th Precinct. Nathan Thompson/BklynerIt was 2003, and the Commander of the 70th Precinct was having a bad night. A group of residents had rented a bus and filled the monthly precinct meeting with frustrating

Announcements

Early Morning Car Crash On Ocean Avenue & Beverly Leaves Two Injured

A torn up car after the crash on Ocean Avenue and Beverly Road. (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)FLATBUSH – An early morning car crash on Ocean Avenue and Beverly Road has left two people in the hospital, with one in very serious condition. In the month of July alone, there were

Central Brooklyn

Precinct Updates: North Flatbush

Callender takes it all in. Nathan Thompson/BklynerSector D Meeting St. Paul’s Church March 11, 2020. The NCO meetings are smaller groups designed to target more specific areas. The idea is to give residents a chance to connect with officers that actually know a particular neighborhood. This differs from

Business

Newkirk Plaza is Looking to Get Private Security After a String of Robberies and a Decline in Police Presence

Newkirk Plaza sits above a popular subway station, seeing 10,000s of visitors per day. Some of the merchants complained that recent robberies have left commuters feeling unsafe. (Katie Herchenroeder/Bklyner)The oldest outdoor shopping plaza in America wants to hire private security as an increase in crime and a

Big Story

Inside the Flatbush Churro Wars

Enma Tenezaca said she was issued a $2,000 ticket. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal)FLATBUSH – Churros. Hot dogs. Ices. Flatbush is a home to all of the above. You won’t necessarily find them in brick and mortar stores. Instead, you would walk up to a beat up cart and order

Central Brooklyn

NCO Summer Safety Meeting – Flatbush District D

FLATBUSH — Like much of the community related machinery (Community Board, Neighborhood Association meetings,) the Precinct Community Council takes a break for the summer. Some residents feel the police precinct meetings are one event that should not break then. As life heats up in the summer, connections to the NYPD are

Central Brooklyn

Cops Looking For These Yeezy Sneaker Thieves

DITMAS PARK/ FLATBUSH. NYPD have released two surveillance videos of suspects in a string of broad daylight robberies in Ditmas Park and Flatbush going back to late April, at least four of which involved the pricey Adidas Yeezy sneakers. In each case, cops allege, an individual(s) agree on Facebook

Central Brooklyn

Burglars In Ditmas Park Need Identification

Cops are looking for help identifying the individuals depicted in the attached surveillance photos in regards to a burglary that occurred in Ditmas Park back on Saturday, June 6, 2017 around 4am in the morning. It was reported to the police that the above individuals entered the lobby of a

Central Brooklyn

Twenty Years After Abner Louima Case

Twenty years ago today, August 9, 1997, police officers at the 70th Precinct in Flatbush sodomized Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, in a police brutality case that shocked the city. WNYC published a segment this morning that looks back at the incident, how the city reacted, and traces the Black

Central Brooklyn

Have You Seen This Missing Flatbush Man?

Photo via NYPDHelp cops find a man missing from his Flatbush home since Friday. Rashaand George, 29, was last seen at 7:45pm on Friday, May 5 on East 17th Street near Caton Avenue. George is described by police as six feet tall and 180 pounds with a medium build,

Central Brooklyn

Missing Person: Ditmas Park

Haroon Butt via NYPDThe New York City Police Department is asking for help in finding 28-year-old Haroon Butt, who was last seen on Saturday morning, April 22, 2017, at home on 700-block of Coney Island Avenue. He was reported missing on Sunday, April 23, and is described by the police

Central Brooklyn

[UPDATED] Do You Know This Man Found By Brooklyn College?

via NYPDUpdate 4/10: The hospitalized male was identified on Saturday, April 8, and has been reunited with family. The investigation is ongoing. Police are looking for public’s help in identifying a man they found Wednesday morning around 9:30, unconscious and bleeding from the head in front of

70 Precinct

Former NBA Draft Pick Michael Wright Found Dead On E. 16th Street, Ruled A Homicide

Police have identified the body found in the backseat of a Lexus SUV Tuesday that had been sitting on East 16th Street near Avenue J since at least Sunday as former New York Knicks draft pick Michael Wright. Wright was found in the backseat of the vehicle with trash bags