Central Brooklyn
The intersection of Dahill and Albemarle Roads. (Photo: Google Maps)Van Break-In On Dahill Road Two thieves broke into a van parked on Dahill Road (at Albemarle Road) around 5am last Thursday, April 14. This is the second time thieves have broken into the van in the last 6 months,
Central Brooklyn
Intersection at Beverley and Westminster Roads where a car break-in occurred late Tuesday night. (Photo: Google Maps)A car parked near the corner of Beverley and Westminster Roads (south side of Beverley) had its driver’s-side window bashed in late Tuesday night, police said. Curiously, nothing was removed from the
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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,
car break-ins
Car break-ins remain one of the biggest drivers of crime in the area. Thieves smashing car windows to steal sometimes as little as pennies from a cup holder are one of the reasons for the spike in crime recorded in the latest Compstat report from the 61st Precinct [/61st-precinct-crime-statistics-1132014-1192014-2/]. While
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Community Board 11’s offices at 2214 Bath Avenue (Source: Google Maps)A concerned neighbor alerted Community Board 11 [http://www.brooklyncb11.org/] to a string of car break-ins and vandalism along Cropsey Avenue during the group’s October 7 meeting. A man who introduced himself as Theodore said the
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A burglar broke the passenger-side windows of at least five vehicles on Shore Boulevard and Beaumont Street in Manhattan Beach. The vandalism appears to have taken place early Saturday morning. Reader Dimash sent in the accompanying photo and tip, saying that he notified the police. “Can’t really blame mute
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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
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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
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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
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The following is a press release from the offices of Councilman David Greenfield: Source: council.nyc.govCouncilman David G. Greenfield is thanking the NYPD’s 66th Precinct and neighborhood Shomrim volunteers for their efforts to stem the rise in the number of vehicles broken into around Borough Park in recent
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Source: Kafziel via Wikimedia CommonsHas anyone else noticed a lot of bluish glass fragments glittering the streets? At first I thought it was just debris leftover from Superstorm Sandy, but apparently Sheepshead Bay is undergoing a rash of smashed car window burglaries according to a News 12 Brooklyn Report [http: