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WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking for the man that burglarized an apartment near Meserole Street and Manhattan Avenue earlier this month. Around 2:40 pm on Tuesday, February 13, the suspect entered a residential apartment building and attempted to crash through the door of one of the units. He was unsuccessful
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(Photo via Brooklyn Public Library)BED-STUY/CROWN HEIGHTS – Applications are now open for Brooklyn Library’s Artist in Residence Program [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/content/artist-residence-air], which is seeking local artists from the Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights neighborhoods to “become part of a dynamic community of artists participating in the
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The Shell station at Knapp Street and Avenue Y was robbed earlier this month (Screenshot via Google Maps)SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police are looking for two men who robbed a gas station on Sunday, February 4. The two men hit the Shell Station at 2472 Knapp Street, at Avenue Y, around
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BED-STUY – A number of large apartment buildings are hitting the market in Bedford-Stuyvesant, part of a package deal of nine properties worth an estimated $60 million. Alcion Ventures [http://www.alcionventures.com/] and Alchemy Properties [http://www.alchemy-properties.com/] are looking to offload the buildings, which contain 113 units, reported
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Add two more to the series of bank robberies across Brooklyn in 2018 (Screenshot via Google Maps)Two new bank robberies have been added to the running tally of a particularly active robber running roughshod over most of Brooklyn in the first months of 2018. Previously linked by NYPD to
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By Steve Ettlinger. Ettlinger is a writer and sculptor who is active in various local civic groups, and a 34-year resident of Brooklyn. Via Common Cause he is a member of LetNYVote.org [https://letnyvote.org/]. Thirty-seven states allow early voting [https://letnyvote.org/make-noise/], but not our beloved New
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The senior center at 930 Halsey Street, where the body was found this morning (Screenshot via Google Maps)UPDATE (2/6/18): The deceased has been identified by NYPD as 40-year old John McGuigan, of East 82nd Street in Canarsie. BED-STUY – This morning, NYPD received a 10:37 am call
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The newly renovated Marcy Library reopened this morning at 617 DeKalb Avenue (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BED-STUY – After an 18-month closure, the Marcy Library reopened today, with students from the nearby P.S. 54 in attendance for the inaugural storytime in the newly renovated facility. With new paint, shelves, computers and
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS – At approximately 5:35am on Sunday, February 4, police responded to a 911 call of a vehicle collision on Clarkson Avenue near East 37th Street. Investigators determined that a 64-year-old
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(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)BRIGHTON BEACH – Police are looking for two individuals who robbed a senior citizen in the area of Neptune Avenue and Brighton 10th Street last Tuesday night. The 70-year old male victim was walking in Brighton Beach around 10:30 pm on Tuesday, January 30 when the suspects
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Mama Fox, located at 327 Stuyvesant Avenue, celebrated its soft opening Wednesday night.Photo: Greg Lewis/BKLYNER.BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – A long-vacant space that years ago welcomed the likes of Shirley Chisholm and Miles Davis will soon get new life when Mama Fox [http://www.mamafoxbk.com/], a bar and restaurant serving
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UPDATE (1/31/18): The victim of Monday’s fatal shooting has been identified as Ernest BrownLee, 55, a resident of the nearby Sumner Houses on Myrtle Avenue, said police. The NYPD has reiterated its request for public assistance in tracking down the suspected shooter, releasing surveillance video from a