Bensonhurst
(Photo provided by Assemblyman Dov Hikind)A series of car vandalisms have been plaguing 20th Avenue and 21st Avenue in Borough Park, and now the NYPD is issuing a warning for drivers in the area. “Be sure to park your cars in well-lit areas and don’t leave anything of
Police & Fire
https://youtu.be/Wxn_oi8rb3s Police have released new surveillance video of the two men believed to have assaulted and robbed [/graphic-video-shows-jewish-man-brutally-mugged-in-midwood/] a 55-year-old Jewish man on a Midwood sidewalk early Monday morning. The NYPD could not immediately provide further details about where the new footage was taken, but it
Central Brooklyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nUQ_5tdOyg The NYPD is looking for two suspects who attacked and robbed a man on Avenue M early Monday morning. The incident took place around 12:45am on Monday, December 28. A 55-year-old man, who Assembly member Dov Hikind identified as Eli, was
Police & Fire
https://youtu.be/0nUQ_5tdOyg Surveillance video shows a 55-year-old Jewish man being brutally mugged on a Midwood Sidewalk early Monday morning. The Daily News identified [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/jewish-man-brutally-beaten-robbed-midwood-article-1.2478851?utm_content=buffer90f14&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer]
Central Brooklyn
CO Deputy Inspector di Blasio at the 70th Precinct Community Council meeting and Holiday Party. (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)The 70th Precinct Community Council [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_070.shtml]meeting was a lively event Wednesday evening. Elected officials from both city
babies
Photo by sanofi-pasteur [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sanofi-pasteur/13716283143/]Heads up, parents: Make sure your kids’ vaccinations are up to date. Whooping cough [http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/] reports have spiked in three Brooklyn neighborhoods — Borough Park, Williamsburg, and Crown Heights — infecting at least 109 people in the Orthodox
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congregation bet yaakob
Cops successfully tracked down the two men whose interest in an Ocean Parkway synagogue over the weekend sparked off a terrorism scare [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2015/03/suspicious-activity-two-local-synagogues-puts-nypd-terrorism-alert/] , and investigators determined them to be no threat at all. “The two individuals have been identified, and they have been interviewed
dov hikind
Source: assembly.state.ny.usBorough Park Assemblyman Dov Hikind is in hot water with outraged constituents after co-sponsoring a job fair that charged unemployed workers a $20 entrance fee. The New York Post reports [http://nypost.com/2014/10/24/assemblyman-co-sponsors-job-fair-charging-unemployed-workers-20/] : > The event in Midwood was jointly promoted by
cameras
Manhattan Beach now has some eyes in the sky after two NYPD security cameras were installed last month in the beachfront community. The cameras were made available with state funding, initiated by Borough Park Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who pushed for them [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2012/05/hundreds-of-security-cameras-coming-to-a-corner-near-you/] after the
advertising
One of the campaign’s posters. Click to enlarge.Assemblyman Dov Hikind claims that the Department of Transportation has blocked his attempt to put up advertisements calling for the deportation of a Queens man believed to be a Nazi war criminal on bus shelters near the man’s home. Hikind
auto insurance
Source: Nathan James/FlickrLegislation aimed at reducing auto insurance fraud in New York State passed the Senate on Monday, bringing the bill which allows insurance companies to retroactively cancel the policies of fraudsters one step closer to law. The Senate bill was sponsored by State Senator Marty Golden, who describes
Borough Park
UPDATE (11:23 a.m.): The sentencing of David Flores has been postponed to January 17 because the pre-sentencing report was not ready. Councilman Greenfield, via Twitter [https://twitter.com/NYCGreenfield/status/420224757439942656], notes that Flores pleaded guilty to an additional charge at today’s hearing, this time for scamming
4930 20th ave
These men not welcome in Borough Park. (Source: ifccenter.com)Assemblyman Dov Hikind has taken to his bully pulpit to let it be known that fight clubs are not welcome in his district. According to a curious press release [http://jpupdates.com/2013/10/28/brooklyn-hikind-vows-to-fight-the-fight-club-in-borough-park/] put out by JP
boro park
Councilman David Greenfield (Source: Facebook)Assemblyman Dov Hikind and Councilman David Greenfield exchanged vicious remarks in regards to the race for the Brooklyn District Attorney. According to a report [http://politicker.com/2013/08/hikind-blasts-greenfield-for-disgusting-lies-and-unconscionable-gutter-politics-in-brooklyn-d-a-s-race/] by Politicker, Greenfield, who supports incumbent Charles Hynes, warned that candidate Ken Thompson would “target
ben akselrod
Richard Landman and representatives from the Roma community unveiled the new stone honoring Roma and Sinti victims at a May 5 ceremony.Salgado (Source: Erick Salgado for Mayor)Long-shot mayoral candidate Erick Salgado is entering the fray over Sheepshead Bay’s Holocaust Memorial Park, blasting the Parks Department for allowing
Assembly
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