East 19th Street

Home Invasion In Broad Daylight Near Quentin Road

(Photo of the suspect via NYPD)Help cops find a man suspected of breaking into a woman’s home near Quentin Road in broad daylight last week. The suspect is accused of forcing open a window in the back of an apartment building near East 19 Street and Quentin Road

Central Brooklyn

Man Shot On East 19th Street, Third Violent Crime On Plagued Block Since 2015

East 19th Street between Albermarle & Beverley Roads. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A man was shot on East 19th Street early Saturday morning, a few blocks from the Beverley Road Q train. The gunman drove up to an apartment building on East 19th Street between Albermarle Road and Beverley Road around

Central Brooklyn

Development Roundup: Flatbush Apartments, Midwood Condos & Borough Park Synagogue

15 East 19th Street, rendering by RoArt1. 15 East 19th Street, Flatbush ‘One of the most prolific small developers in Brooklyn’ plans to replace two Flatbush homes with another modern eight-story apartment building on a dead-end block off Church Avenue, reports YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/10/revealed-15-east-19th-street-flatbush.html]

News

Development Roundup: Flatbush Apartments, Midwood Condos & Borough Park Synagogue

15 East 19th Street, rendering by RoArt1. 15 East 19th Street, Flatbush ‘One of the most prolific small developers in Brooklyn’ plans to replace two Flatbush homes with another modern eight-story apartment building on a dead-end block off Church Avenue, reports YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/10/revealed-15-east-19th-street-flatbush.html]

Central Brooklyn

Browse Through A Century Of Flatbush History On This Interactive Photo Map

Flatbush Avenue at Snyder Avenue, 1932.Just a glimpse of the past can lift us out of our own tiny universes and plunk us right into another century, while never leaving our own street corner. At the end of a busy week, we had a lot of fun sifting through

Central Brooklyn

Flatbush Man Arrested For Stabbing Stepfather On East 19th Street

(Screenshot via Google Maps)A 19-year-old man confessed to stabbing his stepfather in their Flatbush apartment early Sunday morning, only hours after his mother was arrested for the crime, cops say. Responding to a 911 call, police found the 37-year-old victim and his wife embroiled in a domestic dispute inside

Police & Fire

Thieves Raid Construction Site For Equipment And Electronics, Cops Say

(Photos provided by the NYPD)Cops are searching for two burglars who raided a construction site last week and hauled out several pieces of equipment and electronics. The two bandits broke into the site of a planned eight-story residential building [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=1&passjobnumber=320627372&

car windows

More Car Windows Smashed This Weekend

A car window smashed last week. (Photo via Susanna Stein)We received word from a neighbor today that more car windows were discovered smashed on East 19th Street between Ditmas and Newkirk avenues over the weekend, just days after we reported that car windows had been smashed [/blog/crime/more-car-windows-smashed-near-e-18th-street-and-dorchester-road]

Crime Stopper

Cops Searching For Missing 12-Year-Old Naomi Williams

The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in locating neighbor Naomi Williams, a 12-year-old girl who was last seen Tuesday evening at 7:15 am at her home on E 19th Street between Newkirk and Foster Avenues. Naomi is 5-feet-3-inches, weighs 115 pounds, and has a medium build

East 19th Street

The Technicolor Houses of East 19th Street

When people think of our neighborhood’s brightly colored houses, they probably first think of Rugby Gardens [/blog/business/bed-breakfasts-in-ditmas-park], and understandably so. But the stretch of East 19th Street between Foster and Avenue H might be the first street people should visit to see the most colorful houses in

East 19th Street

East 19th Street Repaving Underway

Construction workers kicked off the East 19th Street repaving this week, in which the street is being ripped up and new asphalt poured. Work is being done from Emmons Avenue all the way up to… wherever the heck East 19th Street goes. One resident of East 19th Street snapped the