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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DOWNTOWN – After receiving a tip from a neighbor, police were able to break up a robbery in progress earlier this week. Anti-crime units watched Gregory Price, 59, pull a mask over his
Central Brooklyn
Erasmus Hall High School is located at 911 Flatbush Ave. (Photo/ Google Maps) FLATBUSH – An Erasmus Hall High School teacher has been arraigned on a 25-count indictment charging him with sexually abusing a 16-year old boy on multiple occasions, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced yesterday. Mervyn Affoon, 66, a business
Central Brooklyn
Euzebelin Abellard will serve 20 to life for the slaying of Jean Claude Bernagene (Via District Attorney’s Office)Euzebelin Abellard, 35, of Crown Heights, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison today for the 2015 murder of a man inside an alleged East Flatbush gambling den, District
canarsie
Looking north on Remsen Avenue towards the intersection with Church. Parker was struck by a car on Sunday while crossing Remsen mid-block. (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – After being hospitalized following a hit and run crash on Remsen Avenue on Sunday night, 65-year old Dorothy Parker of Canarsie has
Central Brooklyn
Lenox Road in East Flatbush, where last week’s shooting assault took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – Police are looking for a suspect who fired a gun at the feet of another man on an East Flatbush street last week. Around 9:45 pm on Thursday, April 5,
Central Brooklyn
A rendering of the residential building planned for Erasmus Street (Via BEAM) EAST FLATBUSH – Renderings have been revealed for a new six-story apartment building headed to 142 Erasmus Street in East Flatbush—and it’s quite a change for the block. Mostly populated by single- or two-family homes with fenced-in
Central Brooklyn
The KP Farm Market, where an employee was killed by a makeshift elevator on Monday (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – A worker at a Nostrand Avenue farm market was killed yesterday when a makeshift hoist fell on him, police confirmed. The accident took place at the KP Farm Market,
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The grocery store on Avenue H where the 16-year old was shot (Screenshot via Google Maps)CANARSIE – Police are looking for the man who shot a 16-year old boy in the leg after they two bumped into each other in a grocery store last week. Robert Gilmore, 26, was in
Bed Stuy
Ampry-Samuel (foreground) at a press conference at City Hall on February 20, putting pressure on NYCHA to fix heat and hot water issues in public housing. (Credit: Councilwoman Ampry-Samuel’s office)BROWNSVILLE — Two months into her first term as Council Member for Brooklyn’s 41st district, Alicka Ampry-Samuel has already
Bed Stuy
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)EAST FLATBUSH – A man was killed on Saturday evening at a gender reveal party when gunfire broke out, said police. The shooting also left three other victims wounded. Police responded to the call just after 6:00 pm on Saturday, March 3, arriving to the scene at
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Joel Anabilah-AzumaFLATBUSH – Joel Anabilah-Azumah has been living in Brooklyn since he was 9-years-old. Now, he is running for Congress as an Independent against the 12-year incumbent Yvette Clarke, who is also facing a primary challenge from Adem Bunkeddeko, [/adem-running-for-congress/] and Republican Earl Blum. His stances don’t at all
Central Brooklyn
Map of murders in 67th Precinct during 2017. Data via NYPDEAST FLATBUSH – “Safest Big City in America,” read the sign in front of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill as they announced [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr0105/fewest-annual-murders-shooting-incidents-ever-recorded-the-modern-era#/0] the city’s per