Announcements
Brooklyn College Library. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)FLATBUSH – Tuition is going up, the faculty is fearing more cuts, and facilities not in direct public view are crumbling. Students are demanding full, proper funding. Students of the City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university system in the US
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – The April meeting of the 70th Precinct Community Council took place on Wednesday at 249 Caton Avenue. Commanding Officer Deputy Inspector James Palumbo [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/70th-precinct.page] had this to report: * The incident at the Flatbush Stop and Shop on Tilden
Bay Ridge
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BUSHWICK – Police have released surveillance video that shows a man wanted for question in connection with the stabbing death of 46-year old James Otis in Bushwick last week. [/bushwick-murder-busdriver/] The former MTA
Eastern Brooklyn
via Crunch FlatbushRegular readers of this site have no doubt heard of Crunch Flatbush [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush]. Over the last year, you: * Learned about one of their inspiring members [/meet-deidre-ferrell-crunch-flatbush-member-extraordinaire/] * Got some advice for navigating the onset of cold weather [/fall-back-love-fitness-fall-crunch-flatbush/] and The [/taking-step-holidaysand-anotherand-another/] Holidays [/resolved-theres-no-year-like-year-get-moving/]
brownsville
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
Looking north on Flatbush Avenue, near where Friday night’s pile-up occurred (Screenshot via Google Maps)FLATBUSH – A horrifying multi-car crash on Friday night sent eight people to the hospital, with two in critical condition, after a drunk driver slammed into a car while speeding down Flatbush Avenue near Farragut
Central Brooklyn
Two tragic deaths struck in Brooklyn over the weekend—a man found dead from a gunshot in Flatlands and a man accidentally killed while being detained in a Flatbush store. Outside the Avenue K and 39th Street apartment where a man was found dead from a gunshot wound last Friday
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
Arts & Culture
FLATBUSH – Growing up as the daughter of immigrants in Flatbush, Ashley August hid her dreams of being a performer from her parents using the duffle bag she carried her high school volleyball uniform in. Ashley August (Photo courtesy of the artist)“My parents are immigrants and there’s only about
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH – He promised green cards for their relatives, took their money and skipped town. Yesterday Leroy Quammie, 48, of Flatbush was charged with a “scheme to defraud, grand larceny and immigrant assistance services fraud for claiming to be an agent with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and stealing
Central Brooklyn
During the first weekend of March, three deaths occurred across Brooklyn [/march-weekend-deaths/]. Now, after a violent holiday weekend, the last weekend of the month is a tragic mirror to the first—three deaths in two days in Brooklyn neighborhoods closed out the month. The Great Indian Curry restaurant on Flatbush
Borough Park
Blake MorrisWhile State Sen. Simcha Felder of the 17th senatorial district was delaying budget talks in Albany, Brooklyn resident, Democratic candidate Blake Morris (@BlakeMorris4NYS) [https://twitter.com/BlakeMorris4NYS]was launching his own campaign to unseat the incumbent who governs Borough Park, Midwood, Kensington, Sunset Park and parts of Bensonhurst.The