Police & Fire
Deputy Inspector James Grant, former commanding officer of Sunset Park’s 72nd Precinct, has been stripped of his badge and gun and transferred out of his current command in the Upper East Side’s 19th Precinct after evidence surfaced of him “accepting cash and diamonds from a shady businessman,” according
Police & Fire
24-year-old Joshua Colon was arrested in an incident on Monday which led to the death of local business owner Phil Dellegrazie. (Image via NYPD)Police have arrested the suspect who allegedly ran over and killed local business owner Phil Dellegrazie [/neighbors/local-business-owner-killed-vehicle-chasing-carjacker/] in a frantic car chase which took place
Neighbors
24-year-old Joshua Colon was arrested in an incident on Monday which led to the death of local business owner Phil Dellegrazie. (Image via NYPD)Police have arrested the suspect who allegedly ran over and killed local business owner Phil Dellegrazie [/blog/neighbors/local-owner-killed-by-own-vehicle-while-chasing-carjacker/] in a frantic car chase which took
Neighbors
The scene at 4th Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Street after Phil Dellegrazie was killed. Police created a tented area to provide privacy for the deceased. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The owner of a local iron works business was fatally struck by a carjacker after a frantic
Neighbors
Image courtesy of 72nd Precinct.There’s a new captain in town. NYPD Captain Emmanuel Gonzalez has joined the 72nd Precinct as its new commanding officer, taking over for outgoing Captain Tommy M. Ng, who is now leading the 5th Precinct in Manhattan’s Chinatown. “I’m gonna miss Captain
Police & Fire
Image via NYPD.A 24-year-old woman told police that the male straphanger seen in the above photo inappropriately touched her leg while rubbing his crotch with his other hand, as they rode a Brooklyn-bound N train through the 36th Street station. It was around 2am on Tuesday, March 15, when
Police & Fire
In a heartbreaking discovery, a two-year-old Sunset Park girl was found “unconscious and unresponsive” in a bathtub inside her family’s home on 47th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues this weekend; she was later declared dead at Maimonides Hospital. It was around 8:26pm on Sunday, March 13 when
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Photo by Tom PrendergastA man was injured and bloodied after being hit in the head with a bike lock after an argument with three men at Bartel-Pritchard Square today. According to witness and neighbor Tom Prendergast, the incident took place on Prospect Park West and Bartel-Pritchard Square at approximately 2:
Police & Fire
Images via Torres-Ruiz family.Two sisters disappeared from their family’s 52nd Street apartment some time overnight between Sunday, February 28 at 11pm and the next morning, say police and family members, who are hoping the girls are found safe soon. Kimberly and Alicia Torres-Ruiz, age 16 and 14, were
Police & Fire
Juan Ramos, 67, was convicted of murder for stabbing a neighbor to death in 2013. (Photo via Brooklyn DA’s office.)A 67-year-old Sunset Park man has been convicted in the stabbing death of his 23-year-old neighbor — a father of two — and faces up to 25 years in prison for
Police & Fire
Photo by xandert [ http://mrg.bz/y4c9tB].Police arrested 35-year-old Lan Shui Liu for allegedly stabbing a neighbor to death on Monday night, February 15, in front of 5622 Eighth Avenue. The victim, 41-year-old Jian-Yang Zhang of 62nd Street, was stabbed in the back and neck when EMS responded to
Central Brooklyn
Source: NYPDA tiny kitten, estimated to be about 2 months old, caused a traffic jam in Windsor Terrace around lunchtime today. Motorist Geraldine Cassone flagged down two cops — Officer Christopher Rinelli and Officer Kenia Marte — at approximately 12:35pm on Ocean Parkway near Sherman Street, telling them that a black