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UPDATED: 5th Avenue Restaurant Break-ins — Burglar Pilfers Lotus Sandwiches; Less Successful At Mezcal’s Mexican [Photos]

Surveillance photo courtesy of Lotus SandwichesTwo 5th Avenue restaurants fell victim to a burglar early this morning, and police are currently searching for the suspect. Employee Joyce Li of Lotus Vietnamese Sandwiches [http://www.lotusvietnamesesandwiches.com/] (229 5th Avenue between Carroll and President Streets) said a man broke through their

More Car Vandalism Reported In The Neighborhood

A neighbor spotted this car’s smashed window on Albemarle Road. Photo by Kevin We’ve had numerous problems with car vandalism in the community, and, after writing about smashed windows throughout the area [/blog/crime/more-car-vandalism-reported-throughout-the-neighborhood] in July, a couple neighbors reached out to us about recent incidents on

Car Break-Ins Plague Kensington, Neighbors Say

One of a series of cars that had their windows smashed on E. 18th Street [/blog/crime/series-of-car-break-ins-reported-on-18th-street-between-ditmas-dorchester] . Photo by Rachel SchwartzAfter our sister site, Ditmas Park Corner [/], publisher this article [/blog/crime/series-of-car-break-ins-reported-on-18th-street-between-ditmas-dorchester] yesterday about car windows being smashed on E. 18th Street, between Ditmas Avenue and Dorchester Road,

The Lights Are Back On! Flatbush Development Corporation, CB 14 & Business Leaders Work To Fix Dimly Lit Newkirk Plaza Passageway

Almac Hardware Owner Javier Saez and his employee work on replacing the lighting in Newkirk Plaza’s Marlborough passageway. Photo by Anthony Finkel, of the Flatbush Development CorporationAfter numerous neighbors voiced concerns about the dimly lit Marlborough Road passageway at Newkirk Plaza, the Flatbush Development Corporation [http://www.fdconline.org/

Crime Blotter: A Mom Robbed In Front Of Her Kids, Several Break Ins & More

Aside from cops seizing guns, heroin, and cash [/15/cops-arrest-three-for-stashed-guns-drugs-cash-vehicles-in-88th-precinct/] from three men with a local storage unit, and arresting eight people for gun trafficking [/17/eight-charged-including-five-teenagers-in-lafayette-gardens-area-gun-trafficking/] around Lafayette Gardens, it’s been a relatively slow time lately for crime in the 88th Precinct. Nine felonies were reported between July

More Than $10,000 Worth Of Gear Stolen From Band's Van Saturday Morning

Local musicians Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds [http://www.sistersparrow.com] reached out to us this weekend after thousands of dollars in instruments [http://www.sistersparrow.com/2013/11/24/stolen-instruments-please-share/] were stolen from their van, which was parked on Westminster between Beverley and Cortelyou from roughly 2-9am on

Car Break-In On St Johns, Plus Other Local Crime

“Waking up to see all the stuff in your car dumped out and only the 10$ of change taken feels weird,” a neighbor reported on Twitter [https://twitter.com/maurilax/status/394790303263371264] this morning, noting that the car had been parked right outside of his apartment on St Johns Place

More Neighborhood Car Break Ins

Another neighbor’s car was broken into, this time near Ditmas and Argyle, early yesterday morning. He says the driver’s side window of his car, which was parked in the street, was smashed around 3:45am, although he discovered it at 6:30am. Luckily, he says, no one was

Car Break In On Ditmas & E 19th

Neighbor Sam sent us this photo of a black Honda with its driver’s window smashed this morning on Ditmas Ave. and E 19th St. Unlike the car we spotted last week on Stratford [/blog/crime/car-break-in-on-stratford] (whose back window was tilted so that any glass shards would have likely