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Police have made an arrest in connection with the July 26 shooting on Vermont Street. On July 26, about 6:40pm, police responded to a 911 call of a man shot at 62 Vermont Street (75 Precinct), to find that in fact, three people had been shot. Kleimer P. Mendez,
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In the wee hours of this morning, cops responded to a 911 call about a man shot on Wortman Avenue in East New York. When they got to 738 Wortman Avenue around 1:20 am, they found a 27-year-old man shot in the abdomen in the back of the building.
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APolice_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] CYPRESS HILLS/STARRETT CITY – Two motorcyclists are dead after crashing into cars in a span of just 11 hours in the same 75th Precinct. First on Sunday, August 2 at around 2:10 a.
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Houses on Drew Street. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Afiya Lahens, Niani Taylor and Albert Scott Jr. In 2008, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States with hopes and promises of a better tomorrow. Many naively believed Obama’s election single handedly ended racism and the American dream was truly
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CYPRESS HILLS/EAST NY – Memorial Day weekend ended with three murders in the 75 Precinct. First, on Friday, May 22, at around 9:45 p.m., cops found 23-year-old Noel Kennedy with a gunshot wound to the upper torso, outside on Bradford Street near New Lots Avenue. He was taken
Arts & Culture
Even though the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) closed its physical doors due to coronavirus on March 16, it has continued to provide a critical resource for local communities [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/coronavirus], offering free digital books, compiling reading lists, holding essay competitions for teenagers and connecting with its youngest
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerThe New York State presidential primary election is scheduled for April 28. That would be less than a week before the projected peak of the Coronavirus crisis [/brooklyn-coronavirus-briefing-march-17-social-distancing-on-st-patricks-day/] in New York, according to predictions by Governor Andrew Cuomo earlier this week. Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland and Ohio
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Jonathan Joseph, courtesy of NYPD.CYPRESS HILLS — The New York Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing teen. Jonathan Joseph, a 13-year-old boy, was last seen leaving his residence on Mckinley Avenue near Sheridan Avenue in Cypress Hills, on Tuesday, March 3, around 6 p.
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Darma Diaz. Photo by Jonathan Ortiz.At the end of January, Rafael Espinal suddenly resigned [/rafael-espinal-resigns-from-city-council/] as Councilmember representing the 37th district, which serves Cypress Hills, Bushwick, Brownsville, Ocean Hill and East New York, before finishing his limited term ending in December of 2021. A special election for Espinal’s
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CYPRESS HILLS — Police are looking for four people they suspect of being involved in a string of robberies over the past two weeks in Cypress Hills. Cops compiled surveillance footage from the vicinity of each incident into the video below. https://bklyner.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2020/
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CYPRESS HILLS — A teenage boy from Cypress Hills went missing this weekend. On Saturday, February 8, Antonio Walker, a 14-year-old boy went missing. It was reported to police that he was last seen in his neighborhood at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Miller Avenue around 5 p.m. He
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CYPRESS HILLS — Police are searching for a missing teen from Cypress Hills. On Thursday, January 30, 13-year-old Victoria Masone, who lives on Glen Street near Autumn Avenue in Cypress Hills, was reported missing. She was last seen at 103 Canal Street in Manhattan on Thursday, January 30, at approximately 8.
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At the scene of the hit-and-run. Photo courtesy of via Loudlabs.CYPRESS HILLS — A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run over the weekend. On Saturday, November 30 at around 4:30 a.m., a woman in her 40s was found lying on the roadway at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue
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Elsa, the woman that was cuffed for selling churros, speaking at the rally. (Photo: Lloyd Mitchell)CYPRESS HILLS – A woman was cuffed for selling churros at the Broadway Junction subway station on Friday. “She shouldn’t have been there,” Mayor Bill de Blasio says. On November 8, a woman, who
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CYPRESS HILLS – A 50-year-old pedestrian is dead after a driver struck her and left the scene. On October 28 at around 7:33 p.m., Vabita Arjune, a mother of four children, was attempting to cross Liberty Avenue and Crescent Street after running a few errands near her home [https:
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Deputy Inspector John Buttacavoli, Deputy Inspector John Mastronardi, Sen. Zellnor Myrie, Brownsville community activist Kwesi Johnson, Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, Assistant Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, Deputy Chief Charles McEvoy. Nigel Roberts/BklynerBROWNSVILLE — Residents in over-policed communities of color have historically been disproportionately jailed for smoking pot.