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Black minivan slowed after hitting the 6-year-old boy, then rolled away.Cops are searching for a driver who plowed into a young boy and then fled the scene in Boro Park yesterday. Surveillance footage shows a black minivan cutting through the intersection as an adult and two kids stepped onto
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Photo courtesy of Councilman Mark TreygerResidents say they are shaken up by two tragic incidents that occurred near neighborhood parks over a span of 24 hours. Daquan Spencer, 31, was fatally shot at 1:30am Sunday morning while attending a party inside Scarangella Park [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/scarangella-park]
Police & Fire
Cops are trying to track down the driver of a van that mowed down a couple as they were crossing the street in Marine Park yesterday. A 47-year-old man has died of is injuries and his 50-year-old wife is in critical condition after they were both struck by a grey
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Police & Fire
https://youtu.be/cZJ3qaRIbxY Cops are searching for three robbers they say broke into a home on Brighton 12th Street. On Monday, August 8, at 3:20pm, the three men pried open the door of property and stole jewelry valued at more than $15,000, according to police. Below are
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Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for an unknown man who stabbed a stranger outside a bodega on 86th Street and West 7th Street, right near the N train station, early Friday morning. The suspect slashed a 38-year-old man’s right arm multiple times with a knife on Friday, July 29,
Bensonhurst
https://youtu.be/QixChR22fIM Cops have released footage of a man wanted for robbing two livery car drivers and a food cart owner at gunpoint near 86th Street earlier this month. The suspect held up both cabbies on July 12, taking $100 from the first one on 86th Street near
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The Walt Whitman Houses (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)The NYPD is asking for your help identifying a woman who was killed in a homicide at the Walt Whitman houses. The woman is described as “white/Hispanic” and between the ages of 20 and 35 by police. She was
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A 66-year-old man was shot in the lobby of a Walt Whitman Houses building early this morning. He later died of his injuries. (Photo by Francisco Daum)A woman was killed at the Whitman Houses last night, according to the NYPD. Cops say they responded to a call just past
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The .40 caliber handgun police say Johnson used. (Courtesy NYPD.)A Clinton Hill man committed a pair of armed robberies before dying in a shootout with the NYPD, according to cops. 42-year-old Jermaine Johnson of Park Avenue in Clinton Hill committed a pair of gun-point robberies mere moments before he
Arts & Culture
The chicken burrito at Pequeña. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox.)Here’s a recap of what went down this week. Follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/ftgfocus], like us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/FortGreeneFocus], and check out our Instagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and subscribe to
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(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are asking the public for assistance locating a Coney Island teenager who went missing last week. Authorities say 15-year-old RY-Shawn Hearns was last seen at 2pm on Thursday, July 7, across the street from the Coney Island subway station at Mermaid and Stillwell avenues.
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Photo via NYPDOne apparent burglar was shot dead and another is still being sought for an armed home invasion that was intercepted by police on 78th Street yesterday evening. Officers from the 62nd Precinct responded to a 911 call of a burglary in progress at 2271 78th Street at about