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With State Senate primaries just two months away, it might be a good time to revisit some district maps to get a sense of representation in Brooklyn. Some districts make sense, while others… not so much. From splitting Greenpoint in two, or the long arm of the 20th District, or
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] EAST NEW YORK – Police are looking for three men in connection with a stabbing near Jerome and Liberty Avenues this Saturday, July 21—and they have surveillance pictures. The incident occurred around
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BUSHWICK – Police have arrested and charged a brother and sister in the death of Daniel Rivera, whose body was found buried in a Bushwick backyard last year. [/homicide-ruled-cause-of-death-in-case-of-backyard-body-in-bushwick/] Kieth Floyd, 40, of
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After a spate of violence in Brooklyn over the last week which claimed the lives of four teenagers, police have announced arrests and charges in all four investigations, as well as identifying the victim in the Williamsburg shooting. Kyon Jackson, 15, was identified yesterday by NYPD after being shot to
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BED-STUY – A late-night shooting that wounded a 27-year old man has police on the hunt for an unknown suspect in Bed-Stuy. The shooting took place around 2:50 am on Saturday, July 14, said police. The 27-year old victim was shot in the lower back and groin by an unknown
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BED-STUY/CROWN HEIGHTS – Three affordable housing lotteries are currently open—two in Crown Heights and one in Bedford-Stuyvesant. See below for details. 901 Myrtle Avenue, Bed-Stuy – The lottery launched last Thursday for 7 one-bedroom units at a building currently under construction in Bed-Stuy between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues. The affordable
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(Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr) Yesterday, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced an indictment against a Brooklyn man charged with raping and robbing a woman behind a Bushwick laundromat. Thomas Gallishaw, 23, of Bushwick, has been charged with a 26-count indictment, which includes charges of
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The block of Macon Street near where 16-year old Latrell Brown was shot and killed (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – Yesterday afternoon, a 16-year old was shot and killed by a fellow teenager on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street while walking with his girlfriend. Latrell Brown, 16, of East New York, was
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The Mayor, Councilmember Cornegy and Borough President Adams spoke at the groundbreaking of the new Marcy Community Center (Via Mayor de Blasio’s Office) BED-STUY – For the first time in more than twenty years, residents of the Marcy Houses in Bed-Stuy will have a community center. Yesterday, Councilmember Robert Cornegy,
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WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking for the robber who followed a woman home after the 4th of July before snatching her purse. Around 12:35 am on Thursday, July 5, the suspect trailed a woman home to her apartment in the area near Cook Street and Graham Avenue, said police. With
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The gun recovered by NYPD after an officer was shot early this morning (Via DCPI)BED-STUY – An NYPD police officer is recovering after being shot while pursuing a suspect through Bed-Stuy this morning, police confirmed today. Speaking at a press conference outside Kings County Hospital in Crown Heights, Police Commissioner
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BUSHWICK – Police have made an arrest in the shooting death of William Fernandez [/weekend-gun-violence/], who was killed at Bushwick Avenue and Beaver Street last month. Yesterday, NYPD arrested David Hall, 46, a