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Photo: Flickr Creative CommonsBROOKLYN – In a span of just ten hours, two neighbors were killed, one by gun, one by knife. If you think all we are doing is reporting crimes, please note that there have been 84 murders this year so far in Brooklyn, compared to last year’s
Announcements
Nostrand Playground. (Photo via NYC Parks)FLATBUSH – After an uptick in shootings, a recreation center for the youth is coming soon to the Nostrand Playground to “put them in the right path, to stop problems before they begin,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today. “We know there’s been a
affordable housing
Clarkson Estates will be located on Clarkson Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Garden. EAST FLATBUSH/PLG – As part of the Vital Brooklyn initiative, 291 affordable housing units are coming to Flatbush, Assemblywoman Diana Richardson announced. Vital Brooklyn [https://www.ny.gov/transforming-central-brooklyn/vital-brooklyn-initiative-0] is a $1.4 billion plan funded through
Central Brooklyn
MTA New York City Transit demonstrates prototypes of permanent protective barriers at the Bus Operator’s position on local and express buses at the Michael J. Quill Depot on Tue., June 30, 2020. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitBrooklyn 99 [https://www.nbc.com/brooklyn-nine-nine] may be
Central Brooklyn
›By Ese Olumhense and Claudia Irizarry Aponte, Originally published in THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/health/2020/6/30/21309498/kings-county-hospital-gynecological-cancer-care-canceled] Kings County Hospital staff protested proposed cuts to gynecologic oncology services, June 29, 2020. | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYMedical residents at the city-run Kings County Hospital are urging elected
Central Brooklyn
Edwin Raymond (middle). (Photo via Raymond’s office, with permission)FLATBUSH – The race to represent Flatbush just got even more crowded. Edwin Raymond, of East Flatbush, formally announced Thursday morning his run for the 40th City Council seat to represent Flatbush, East Flatbush, PLG, and bits of surrounding neighborhoods. Raymond
canarsie
EAST FLATBUSH – An early-morning crash involving a motorcycle and a car left the rider dead on Sunday, June 21. Police responded to a 911 call that came in just after 4:00 am about a crash at the intersection of Winthrop Street and E. 92 Street. They found a man
Central Brooklyn
EAST FLATBUSH – Two men were shot early this morning. One of them died, while the other is in stable condition in the hospital. On Wednesday, June 17 at around 1:55 a.m., coups found 35-year-old Jomo Glasgow, a Queen resident known as Dj Trouble, unconscious and unresponsive on East
Big Story
Photo via Hercules Reid.EAST FLATBUSH – Hercules Reid, 27, is not a native Brooklynite. He was born and raised upstate and moved to Delaware to attend college. He didn’t move to Brooklyn until 2015. Four years later, he ran to be the next District 45 Council Member but didn’
brownsville
EAST FLATBUSH/BROWNSVILLE – Three people were shot and two killed in two separate shootings in Brooklyn last night. First, on June 2, at around 6:05 p.m., cops arrived at the intersection of East 92nd Street and Church Avenue to find a 58-year-old man and a 66-year-old man inside
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Bus driver suffered a medical episode while driving, injured 5. Hillel Lichtenstein/BklynerBus driver suffered a medical episode while driving, injured 5. Hillel Lichtenstein/BklynerBus driver suffered a medical episode while driving, injured 5. Hillel Lichtenstein/BklynerBus driver suffered a medical episode while driving, injured 5. Hillel Lichtenstein/BklynerBus driver
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BROOKLYN – There were six deaths in five days in the borough. Four of them were murders, and two are yet to be determined. We wrote on Monday about two that occurred on Mother’s Day [/weekend-crime-blotter-two-murders-on-mothers-day-serial-sexual-abuser-arrested-and-more/] , and now there are three more. According to NYPD data [https://compstat.nypdonline.org/