North Western Brooklyn
The intersection of Clifton Place and Grand Avenue in Clinton Hill (via Google Maps)The NYPD are looking for a man who stabbed a woman in broad daylight yesterday afternoon in Clinton Hill. The incident occurred on Wednesday, July 19 in front of 42 Clifton Place near Grand Avenue at
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Photo via wikimedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton%E2%80%93Washington_Avenues_(IND_Crosstown_Line)] A drunken straphanger wearing a Santa hat narrowly avoided being run over by a subway an hour after Christmas Day. Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-man-santa-hat-survives-run-subway-train-article-1.2924635] reported that it was
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Video via NYPD Police have released a video of four suspects — ranging between ages 8 and 14 — who assaulted and robbed a 30-year-old man a block away from Fort Greene Park. According to the police, the incident took place on Friday, November 25, 2016, at 12:30am in front of
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/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/RMA-3255-16-Robbery-88-Pct-final-video.mp4Courtesy of NYPD. Police are searching for two suspects who were involved in a gunpoint robbery blocks away from Commodore Barry Park in Fort Greene. On Thursday, October 20 at approximately 8:30pm two individuals approached a 55-year-old man who was seated in his vehicle
Education
Brooklyn School For Career Development at 502 Clermont Avenue in Clinton Hill. (Photo via Google Maps)A student who brought a loaded gun to his Clinton Hill school last week will face criminal charges, the NYPD confirmed today. A 15-year-old boy, who was arrested when school safety agents found a
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The 25-year-old victim was shot and killed by a gunman on North Elliott Place on August 28. (Photo: Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/place/15+N+Elliott+Pl,+Brooklyn,+NY+11205/@40.6975761,-73.9774719,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25bcbd5bb28c7:0xadd067ceeb5ed998!8m2!3d40.6976373!4d-73.9772519] )A man
Events
Auxiliary officers at the 88th Precinct enjoyed National Night Out Festivities in 2013. Pictured, top row: Officer Anthony Johnson, Sergeant Lynford Fairclough, Officer Justin Lopez, Deputy Inspector, Officer Kevin Grant, Officer Joseph Barber; second row: Officer Jason Woods, Officer Ezra Glasgow and Officer Ellen Moseley. (Photo by Amanda Woods)Today
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l. to r., Officer Sargent, Public Advocate James, Officer Brathwaite, Council Member Cumbo, 88th Precinct Council President Delia M. Hunley-Adossa, 88th Precinct Council Vice President John Harrison (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Michael Randazzo)After two decades of faithful service to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Officer Varlos Brathwaite is retiring
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Captain John Buttacovoli is addressing the 88th Precinct Community Council executive board and Fort Greene residents. (Courtesy Elizabeth Elizalde)“Bullets don’t have names on them,” said NYPD Captain John Buttacovoli, the new Commanding Officer of the 88th precinct. The 88th Precinct Community Council welcomed its new Commanding Officer to
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Image via NYPD.Two burglaries in twenty minutes at two Myrtle Avenue businesses — that’s the case that police at the 88th Precinct are trying to crack. At 4:20am on Sunday, April 10, three burglars broke into Five Spot Soul Food (459 Myrtle Avenue) through the side door and
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Photo by Fort Greene FocusA woman was killed after riding her bike the wrong way on Classon Avenue. A 34-year-old victim died early Friday morning after being struck by a 2015 red Fiat near Lexington Avenue, while riding southbound the one-way throughway, say cops. She suffered massive trauma to her
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A gun bust in Fort Greene turned up a stockpile of weapons and a sizable amount of weed. A machine gun, two pistols, a bb gun, and hundreds of rounds of ammo were recovered early Wednesday morning at 330 Hudson Walk in the Ingersoll Houses, according to cops. They also
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https://youtu.be/x5AiOzd6L2I It’s every Brooklynite’s worst nightmare: a wallet lost, only to find its way into the hands of a would-be credit card thief. On April 2, at around 8:15pm, a 23-year-old woman left her wallet on a bench at the Nevins Street subway stop,
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Image via DCPI.Remember: a baseball bat is more dangerous than your average “toy.” One of them was used in the beating of a 19-year-old man on Monument Walk at the Ingersoll Houses this past Monday, March 7, at around 10:25pm, according to cops. Police stated that the teen
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BY SARAH CREAN AND HEATHER CHIN Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area. Last week, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website [https://compstat.nypdonline.org/] which allows users to examine crime statistics up to the most recent week, identify crime locations by street
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Police have arrested a homeless man for allegedly slashing a man across the face with a boxcutter on the Classon Avenue G train Queens-bound platform at around 2:50am this morning (Monday, February 29). According to PIX11 [http://pix11.com/2016/02/29/homeless-man-slashes-subway-commuter-who-woke-him-up-in-brooklyn-nypd/] , police say that after being roused