brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – NYPD Police Officer Ernesto Marks, who was arrested last week [/friday-crime-blotter-12/] and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing for allegedly choking his girlfriend during a fight, has notched another arrest in less than a week’s time. Around 2:45 am on Wednesday, June 13, Marks was arrested once
Announcements
Target’s new East Flatbush store rendering, opening in 2020.MIDWOOD/EAST FLATBUSH — Target announced today that they will be opening another of their small-format urban stores at the corner of Kings Highway and Foster Avenue in East Flatbush, where Kristal Auto Mall used to be in 2020. “Our Kings
Announcements
The Empire State building lit up in orange—during National Gun Awareness month, orange is the color worn to honor victims of gun violence (Via Gun Violence Awareness Month [http://www.gunviolenceawarenessmonth.com/])Brooklyn politicians and communities are speaking out and hosting events to kick-off June’s Gun Violence Awareness
Bay Ridge
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BAY RIDGE – Police are looking for a burglar that struck a Bay Ridge apartment earlier this week, gaining entry to the building by slipping in the front door as a tenant was
Central Brooklyn
Councilmember Eugene at Ditmas Junior High to announce the results of Participatory Budgeting in District 40 (Via CM Eugene’s Office)KENSINGTON – City Councilmember Mathieu Eugene stopped off at Ditmas Junior High earlier this week to reveal the results of the Participatory Budgeting vote in his 40th District. Receiving the
canarsie
The deceased was found inside an apartment on East 37th Street in East Flatbush (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – Yesterday afternoon, police responded to a call of a man unconscious inside an apartment at 237 East 37th Street, near Church Avenue, in East Flatbush. Officers arrived just before 3:
Central Brooklyn
By: Representative Yvette D. Clarke and Internet Association President & CEO Michael Beckerman The internet is about opportunity. Its evolution continues to open doors for students to further their education, for communities to exchange ideas, and for small businesses to leverage tools that help them market their products and engage
Bed Stuy
The Thanksgiving Supermarket on 86th Street, where a young boy was nearly kidnapped on Monday (Screenshot via Google Maps)GRAVESEND – Police are looking for the man who tried to kidnap a 3-year old boy from right in front of his grandmother on Monday. The incident occurred just before 4:00
Central Brooklyn
Officer Veve with his wife, Esther (Photo: Twitter, NYPD 88th Precinct)As Brooklyn Police Officer Dalsh Veve was wheeled out of a New Jersey physical therapy center yesterday, he was applauded by 200 police officers as bagpipes played. His daughter, Darshee, was sitting on his lap and his wife, Esther,
Central Brooklyn
The apartment building at 412 East 51st in Flatbush, near where a man was shot and killed last night (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – Last night, a man was shot and killed in East Flatbush, just off of Church Avenue, another casualty in a rash of gun violence plaguing
Bed Stuy
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)BED-STUY – Police are looking for a woman who set fire to a car in Bed-Stuy in the early hours of Saturday, April 28. The arsonist intentionally set fire to the car at 52 Decatur Street by unknown means around 3:30 am, said police. Surveillance video of
Announcements
Photo courtesy of New York Restoration Project.Spring may not have exactly sprung in Brooklyn yet, but Brooklynites should get ready for the good weather anyway—and register to pick up a free tree [https://nyrp.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f936aba6c808439b0f447dac&id=eb4af5ed97&e=ae45b66374] ! Through