canarsie
CANARSIE – Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that a 28-year-old man has been arraigned for allegedly killing his 70-year-old adoptive mother whom authorities found bound and strangled in her home. A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz / Flickr)According to the investigation, on July 18, 2017, Noreen Mulzac,
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS – Following Tuesday’s City Council hearing where NYCHA’s Chair was questioned about the agency’s failure to properly conduct lead paint inspections [/nycha-chair-answers-city-council-lack-lead-testing-public-housing-developments/] in thousands of public housing apartments, NYS Senator Jesse Hamilton [https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/articles/jesse-hamilton/free-lead-testing-children-december-2017-january-2018] (District 20) announced free lead tests
Bushwick
WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking the man who stole a Blue Quaker bird from the Petland store at 92 Graham Avenue and Seigel Street. Around 5:00 pm on Tuesday, December 5, the bird thief entered the exotic bird cage at the pet store, using a paper towel wrapped around his
Bed Stuy
BROADWAY JUNCTION – Police are looking for the man who punched a woman in the face after grabbing her inappropriately at the Broadway Junction station last month. Around 9:00 pm on Sunday, November 11, the unidentified man grabbed the buttocks of a 21-year old woman while moving past her on
canarsie
Looking east on Flatlands Ave towards E 85th Street. Mr. Diaz was struck while standing between the lanes, waiting for traffic to subside (Screenshot via Google Maps)CANARSIE – A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle while crossing Flatlands Avenue in Canarsie last month, succumbing to his injuries a week later.
Business
Brooklyn is synonymous with food so it was hard to limit the gift guide to just ten so we added one more but the list could be endless. Chocolate, who can resist chocolate in all shapes, types, and sizes. Olive oil gifts, the king of oils, wine, meat, Indian spices
Central Brooklyn
Getting into the Christmas Spirit in Carroll Gardens (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. Two Workers Rescued From Scaffolding Stuck On 17th Floor At 4 MetroTech [https://patch.com/new-york/heights-dumbo/
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – The NYPD is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the man seen in the photos and surveillance video below in connection to the robbery of a cab driver early last month. Via NYPDAt approximately 7:30am on Thursday, November 2, police say the suspect hailed a taxi in
Business
On a cold Saturday morning in East Brooklyn, Faisal Mustafa, 34, an instructor at the Motorcycle Safety School (MSS), is coaching a group of 12 people about the safety precautions before riding a heavy motorbike. He then leads them out to their parking lot and assigns a bike to each
Central Brooklyn
The City Council held a hearing on Tuesday to grill NYCHA Chair, Shola Olatoye, about the agency’s failure to properly conduct lead paint inspections in thousands of public housing apartments. Red Hook Houses (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)NYCHA did not conduct inspections between 2012 to 2016 in 55,000
Cypress Hills
The Cypress Hills Key Food where the fight took place, on Crescent Street near Fulton (Screenshot via Google Maps)CYPRESS HILLS – When a fight broke out in line at the Key Foods in Cypress Hills last month, two men injured an elderly bystander as they tussled. Now, police are looking
Arts & Culture
Andrew Neesley and Tim Emmerick had individually forged some impressive musical credentials before they met. Neesley was an acclaimed jazz trumpeter and performed with artists as diverse as Ray Barreto, the Roots, James Taylor, and Lady Gaga. Emmerick, one of the first musicians ever to earn a Master’s degree