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(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)CROWN HEIGHTS – The NYPD has released photos of two men investigators are searching for in connection to the shooting death [/crown-heights-man-killed-in-saturday-shooting/] of a 32-year-old man last Saturday in Crown Heights. Officers discovered John Barnes at approximately 1:40am on December 16 in the vicinity of St. Johns
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(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)WILLIAMSBURG – A shooting just after midnight last night in Williamsburg left one man dead and another wounded, said police. Arriving at 160 Havemeyer Street, near South 2nd Street, police found two gunshot victims: a 19-year old man shot in the leg and back, and a 20-year old
Announcements
Two town hall meetings this week offer Brooklynites a space to engage with elected officials before the year’s end. Residents of Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s 35th City Council District and parents with kids attending schools in the 13th School Board District will have meetings in their neighborhoods starting this
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Clinton Lawson, 32, was sentenced for his 2014 crime spree in Crown Heights. (Photo via Attorney Generals Office)Years after his one-night crime spree through Crown Heights in 2014, 32-year old Clinton Lawson of Jamaica, Queens has been sentenced to 75 years in prison, Acting Attorney General Eric Gonzalez announced
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The corner of St. Johns and Schenectady in Crown Heights, near where the shooting took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS – During a weekend beset with violence, a man was shot and killed in Crown Heights on Saturday. On Saturday, December 16, at 1:40 am, police responded to
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CROWN HEIGHTS – Following Tuesday’s City Council hearing where NYCHA’s Chair was questioned about the agency’s failure to properly conduct lead paint inspections [/nycha-chair-answers-city-council-lack-lead-testing-public-housing-developments/] in thousands of public housing apartments, NYS Senator Jesse Hamilton [https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/articles/jesse-hamilton/free-lead-testing-children-december-2017-january-2018] (District 20) announced free lead tests
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LAS lawsuit supportersCROWN HEIGHTS – Ahead of tomorrow’s City Council vote on the Bedford-Union Armory [/cumbo-announces-bedford-union-armory-plans-drop-condos-gain-affordable-units/] land use application, the Legal Aid Society (LAS) filed a lawsuit today in New York County Supreme Court contesting the City’s development plans for the Armory and challenging the methodology used to evaluate
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The serial thief has been targeting nail salons, like Ms. Q Nails, at 815 Rogers Ave (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – A woman operating in East Flatbush struck a number of nail salons in a pattern of thefts targeting employees, according to the NYPD. The first incident took place
Central Brooklyn
The suspect entered Sheer Madness beauty and nail salon through a rear window, said police (Screenshot via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS – Police are looking for the man who burglarized a Franklin Avenue beauty shop and nail salon last week. Video footage from around 4:30 am shows a man climbing
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] CROWN HEIGHTS – Police are searching for the suspect who stabbed a man in a Crown Heights robbery gone wrong earlier this month. The would-be robber approached his 52-year old victim near Schenectady
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – At a City Council land use subcommittee meeting on Tuesday, November 21, Council Member Laurie Cumbo (District 35) announced that a modified agreement for the controversial Bedford-Union Armory [/one-way-crown-heights-feel-armory-decision-communitys-hands/] project has been reached, with the removal of 60 market-rate condos that were previously proposed and the inclusion of
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PARK SLOPE – City Employee Nilsa J. Lopez, an off-duty School Safety Agent, was arrested for assault in Park Slope at 8:00 pm on Friday, November 17. The 50-year old was at Rachel’s Taqueria on 5th Ave when she—along with John Lopez, 67 and Arianna Lopez, 17—attacked