Bushwick
WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking for a man who attempted to snatch a woman’s purse in the area of North 4th and Berry Streets earlier this week. The incident occurred on Monday, January 29th, around 9:20 am, said police. The would-be robber approached a 40-year old woman from behind
East New York
The Breukelen Houses on East 108th Street, near where the victim was shot in his car (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST NEW YORK – A man was found shot dead inside a car outside the Breukelen Houses in East New York over the weekend. Responding to a call of an assault
Bed Stuy
Governor Andrew Cuomo (Source: Philip Kamrass / Times Union)Yesterday, Governor Cuomo announced $664 million in funding for a new, unified healthcare system in Central Brooklyn that would improve access to healthcare and create new jobs in an area of the city that needs it most. The money is part of
Cypress Hills
The corner of Euclid and Ridgewood Avenues, where Luis Cabrera was killed last week crossing the street (Screenshot via Google Maps)CYPRESS HILLS – An arrest has been made after a pedestrian was killed crossing the street in Cypress Hills last Friday, said police. Around 6:40 pm on Friday, January
Announcements
CYPRESS HILLS – As the effects on gentrification creep across Brooklyn, expanding ever further from the East River, recent history can show those in the outer edges of the outer boroughs what has worked and what hasn’t in the fight against rising rents, development and displacement. As part of the
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – An attack in Brownsville left one man dead and a woman in custody last Friday. Responding to reports of an assault at a residence on Howard Avenue around 8:15 pm on Friday, January 12, NYPD officers discovered a 51-year old man who had been stabbed in the neck,
Bensonhurst
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BENSONHURST – Police are looking for the man who violently attempted to rob a 16-year old for his coat at gunpoint last Tuesday in Bensonhurst. The 16-year old male victim was walking on
brownsville
The Santa Grocery, robbed twice in the same crime spree (Screenshot via Google Maps)Police are looking for two suspects in a pattern of gunpoint robberies throughout Brownsville, East New York and Bushwick that occurred in the first week of the new year. On Wednesday, January 3, the duo entered
Bed Stuy
The Dime Community Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint was robbed yesterday (Screenshot via Google Maps)GREENPOINT – Police are looking for the man who robbed a Dime Bank in North Brooklyn just after midday yesterday. At 1:10 pm on Tuesday, January 9, a man entered the Dime Bank at
Bay Ridge
Brighton 6th Street, near where the mugging took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)BRIGHTON BEACH – Three men are wanted in connection with a violent mugging of a man that took place in Brighton Beach in December. At 9:40 pm, the suspects approached their 48-year old victim outside 3028 Brighton
Announcements
ID NYC sample cardEAST NEW YORK – NYC ID card – you know you want one. Brooklyn Public Library’s New Lots Branch [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/new-lots] is the newest spot to apply for the New York City’s official, government-issued identification card, which is available to all City residents
Central Brooklyn
Glenwood Road, where a resident was shot and killed earlier this month. (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – Police have made an arrest following the shooting death of an East Flatbush man earlier this month. Just after 7:00 am on Sunday, December 10, police responded to a call of