brownsville
Site of the crash hours after it occurred (Picture by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS— Police said Thursday they have arrested the gunman who shot and killed a man earlier this week. On Monday, July 8, a 31-year-old was shot in the head while sitting in a car [/car-crashes-in-plg-after-driver-and-passenger-get-shot-in-crown-heights/] on
Central Brooklyn
The building where the day care center will soon open (Image via Google Maps) CROWN HEIGHTS — The site of a Crown Heights coworking space will soon be a day care facility. The former Electropositive [https://www.facebook.com/ElectropositiveBK/] coworking space at 639 Classon Avenue will be replaced by Magic
Central Brooklyn
Site of the crash in Prospect Lefferts Gardens hours after it occurred (Picture by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS/ CROWN HEIGHTS— After two men were shot while sitting in a car in Crown Heights, they crashed their car several blocks away while driving to the hospital. A 29-year-old driver
Central Brooklyn
Terence Monahan, Benjamin Tucker, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and James P. O’Neill at a monthly crime briefing in Sugar Hill (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BROOKLYN — As citywide crime declines, shootings are up so far this year compared to 2018, particularly in Brooklyn North’s precincts, the NYPD said
Central Brooklyn
Community Board 9 at 890 Nostrand Ave. between Caroll and Presidents Streets. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—Community Board 9 has set a date to elect a new chair. CB9 has scheduled a Tuesday, July 23 special meeting [http://www.communitybrd9bklyn.org/meeting/special-meeting-tuesday-july-23-2019-at-7pm/] to elect its chair, according
Borough Park
Jayden Grant with his grandmother, Bessie Watson Grant, before the graduation ceremony began (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BOROUGH PARK— Jayden Grant, an 11-year-old boy who was recently hit by a stray bullet in Crown Heights, graduated from elementary school on Monday, at a bittersweet ceremony at the hospital where
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS—The NYPD has sent dozens of additional police officers to a pocket of Brooklyn that in recent months has seen an increase in shootings and homicides, a department official said Monday. NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, First Deputy Police Commissioner Benjamin Tucker, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and
Central Brooklyn
Picture of the empty lot where 54 Crown Street is planned (Image via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS — Another new building will soon go up in Crown Heights by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Permits have been filed with the Department of Buildings [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=2&
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – A man lost control of his car in Crown Heights after being shot early Friday morning, the NYPD says. Photo BklynerWhile driving away after being shot once in the stomach at around 3:30 a.m., the victim’s car, a Nissan Maxima, flipped over after hitting a
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS — A man was shot in the Lincoln Terrace/Arthur S. Somers Park Tuesday morning, according to police. Lincoln Terrace/Arthur S. Somers Park via Google MapsFollowing a dispute, at approximately 5:10 a.m., a 47-year-old man was shot twice in the left leg, the NYPD says. The
Central Brooklyn
The Department of Transportation’s Acacia Dupierre explains the bike lane proposal at a Community Board 9 meeting, as the board’ chair, Patricia Baker, looks on (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — Brooklyn Community Board 9 [http://www.communitybrd9bklyn.org] gave mostly warm responses last Wednesday to a street
Arts & Culture
Yoni Katz in a library on Kingston Avenue, where he begins his tours (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—It all started with a fight over bike lanes. Rabbi Yoni Katz, 40, almost 10 years ago noticed “tension” between “hipsters” and Hasidic people in Williamsburg centered around them [https: