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The Gasgo station at Remsen and Avenue D, where the shooting took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)CANARSIE – Caught in the middle of a gas station hold-up last night, an off-duty NYPD officer shot and killed an armed 19-year old robber from Brooklyn. The shooting occurred at the Gasgo station
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The intersection of Flatlands and East 83rd, and the Popeyes where the incident occurred (Screenshot via Google Maps)CANARSIE – After an altercation outside a Popeyes in Flatlands erupted in gunfire Monday evening, an 8-year old girl was struck by a stray bullet, said police. Today, a suspect is in custody.
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WILLIAMSBURG – Tonight, the second L Train open house [/mta-and-dot-announce-open-house-meetings-regarding-l-train-closure/] in Brooklyn will take place, an event sponsored by both the MTA and the DOT. Tonight’s meeting will be the third in a series of four (two each in Brooklyn and Manhattan) that was announced in January so the two
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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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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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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] On Sunday afternoon, January 28, three men went on an armed crime spree in Brooklyn, robbing corner stores at gunpoint across four police precincts, said the NYPD. First, the suspects hit Ralph
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Two women were found dead inside an apartment at 1023 Union Street in Crown Heights last Friday, but details are scarce (Screenshot via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS – On Friday, January 19, police responded to a call of two unconscious females in a Crown Heights building just off Eastern Parkway. Arriving
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Councilmember Jumaane Williams, D-45 (Photo courtesy of Councilmember Williams’ Office)After an unsuccessful bid for City Council Speaker last month, it looks like East Flatbush Councilmember Jumaane Williams (D-45) has his eyes on a bigger prize: the position of Lieutenant Governor. “Do what you can, with what you have, where
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CANARSIE – “Our dog is missing, we need Brooklyn’s help!” Meredith, a Manhattan resident, tells BKLYNER. Meredith and her fiancé went to visit family out of state for the holidays and entrusted their one-year-old Shih Tzu/Maltese mix, Lily, in the care of her usual dog-walker. The walker was familiar
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CANARSIE – Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that a 28-year-old man has been arraigned for allegedly killing his 70-year-old adoptive mother whom authorities found bound and strangled in her home. A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz / Flickr)According to the investigation, on July 18, 2017, Noreen Mulzac,
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Looking east on Flatlands Ave towards E 85th Street. Mr. Diaz was struck while standing between the lanes, waiting for traffic to subside (Screenshot via Google Maps)CANARSIE – A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle while crossing Flatlands Avenue in Canarsie last month, succumbing to his injuries a week later.
Announcements
SOUTHERN BROOKLYN – There will be Russian-speaking translators at 15 polling sites and Haitian-Creole-speaking translators at 5 polling sites in Southern Brooklyn tomorrow. Championed by Council Member Mark Treyger, the interpreters are provided through a $350,000 interpreter pilot program, funded by the City in time for this year’s general