Central Brooklyn
CYPRESS HILLS — Police are looking for four people they suspect of being involved in a string of robberies over the past two weeks in Cypress Hills. Cops compiled surveillance footage from the vicinity of each incident into the video below. https://bklyner.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2020/
East New York
EAST NEW YORK – Tragic news this morning out of East New York, where a yellow school bus driver struck and killed a 10-year-old Patience Albert and injured her 15-year-old brother as the children were crossing the street just three blocks from home. Police inform us that at around 6:45
affordable housing
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries at the 2020 State of the District. Nigel Roberts/BklynerDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Standing before a lively crowd, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, a rising star in the Democratic Party, took aim at gentrification and skyrocketing housing costs in Brooklyn during his annual State of the District speech on February 24.
Business
Blackout in Mill Basin, July 21, 2019 (Photo: Todd Maisel)A cascading series of scandals involving local utility providers has more and more New Yorkers clamoring for publicly-owned power, and now they have some powerful allies. City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Assemblymember Felix Ortiz, and several candidates for office spoke Wednesday
Central Brooklyn
By Zainab Iqbal/BklynerThe federal public charge rule takes effect today, February 24, 2020. The rule will make it harder for people who have used public benefits in the past to get their green cards going forward. “This rule I think is going to radically transform who gets to get
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE — On Friday, February 21, 2020, just after 10:00 a.m. police got a 911 call about a man shot in front of 183 Herzl Street. When they got to the location, police found a 38-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was
Central Brooklyn
The New York City Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating the following individuals: EAST FLATBUSH – Melvin Martin, 66, of East 45th Street in Brooklyn. UPDATE 02/119/2020 – Mr. Martin was found and is well. It was reported to police that he was last seen at
Business
Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa. Photo by Curt Saunders/ Courtesy of Giwas.What started two years ago as a project to spotlight overlooked Black-owned businesses has blossomed into one of the hottest digital publications about our borough. Bklyner first [/black-owned-brooklyn/] met Black-Owned Brooklyn [https://www.blackownedbrooklyn.com/], operated by
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, just before 8 pm, a man entered a Metro PCS at 716 Rockaway Avenue, asked to use the phone, pulled out a gun and demanded property, the police inform us. https://bklyner.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/674-20-73PCT-ROBBERY-video-.mp4 The
canarsie
BP Station near Brooklyn Terminal Market, via Google Streetview.EAST FLATBUSH/CANARSIE – On Monday, February 17, 2020, shortly after 6 pm, NYPD responded to a vehicle fire at 401 East 80th Street – a BP Gas Station near Brooklyn Terminal Market. Upon arrival, officers report finding a white van with smoke
brownsville
Andre Clarke. Courtesy of DCPI.BROWNSVILLE — On Sunday morning, cops arrested 45-year-old Andre Clarke of Staten Island and charged him with brutally raping an 11-year-old girl in Brownsville. Clarke was found at a hotel in Queens after calling himself in. Clarke is accused of raping the 11-year-old daughter of the
Central Brooklyn
NYPD, East Flatbush. Liena Zagare/BklynerWhat’s behind the increase of NYPD stop-and-frisks in 2019? While law enforcement officials downplay the rise, alarm bells are going off among some civil liberties groups. Cops used the controversial policing tactic 22% more last year compared to 2018, according to statistics NYPD reported