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> “Level 1 mobilization” for bomb threat at Midwood High School. Full evacuation. pic.twitter.com/pvoMLOedhg [https://t.co/pvoMLOedhg] — James (@jamzeaton) February 28, 2017 [https://twitter.com/jamzeaton/status/836613372103778307] Midwood High School was evacuated this morning after someone called in a bomb threat to the school on
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Photo by James SienkievicIn the State of the City Address, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte discussed the dire need for adequate housing, immigration reform, and funding for public education in District 42, which includes Ditmas Park, Flatbush, and Midwood. The idea of a divided America has been dominating the national conversation recently,
News
Cops found body parts inside Moses’ apartment at 185 Erasmus Street. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Brooklyn man, who is a registered sex offender, has been indicted for murdering and hacking up his live-in girlfriend, whose remains were reportedly found scattered between a freezer and a waste station in January
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Derek Goodings (Photo via Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office)On Friday, 28-year-old Derek Goodings was sentenced to 24 years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision after pleading guilty to fatally shooting a man during Brooklyn’s J’Ouvert celebration in 2014. According to the defendant’s testimony, Goodings fired
Police & Fire
Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for a teenage girl who went missing from her Flatbush home on Saturday. Naomi Barker, 14, was last seen on February 25 at 8:45am near East 29th street and Glenwood Road, according to NYPD. She is described by police as a black female, 5
Announcements
(Photo via repyvettedclarke [https://www.instagram.com/p/BP3ecWTFuTk/?taken-by=repyvettedclarke]/instagram) Join Democratic U.S. Congressmember Yvette Clarke of District 9 for a community Town Hall [https://www.facebook.com/events/575731249282728/] on Donald Trump’s First 30 Days in office, with policy experts to discuss immigration, healthcare, and
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450 Flatbush Avenue. (Screenshot via Google Maps)An 18-year-old was stabbed in the stomach while hanging out with friends in Prospect Park near Flatbush Avenue on Monday night, police said. The teen and five friends were hanging out after-hours near the Prospect Park Zoo at 9:45pm on Monday, February
Business
(Photo by Carly Miller / DPC)After a three-month long battle and amassing more than 1500 petition signatures, the beloved Flatbush Caribbean bakery won a new lease, said community organizers this week. Loved by neighborhood newbies and lifelong residents, Errol’s Caribbean Bakery at 661 Flatbush Avenue has been serving jerk
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Flatbush Avenue near Avenue U. (Screenshot via Google Maps)This month, a 25-year-old unlicensed livery cab driver was charged for mowing down a husband and wife in Marine Park before fleeing the scene in August. After being pulled over for a traffic violation on Troy Avenue on February 8, cops
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Photo via NYPDOn Thursday, a Flatbush man with a record of domestic abuse confessed to killing and dismembering his wife, who had been missing for one month. Diana Rodriguez-Martin, 43, was reported missing last week — at which point she hadn’t been seen in one month, said cops. Her husband
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(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)This week, news about ICE raids and arrests [https://news.vice.com/story/immigration-raids-hit-major-cities-throughout-u-s] in several U.S. cities rippled throughout immigrant communities in Brooklyn, after a leaked Department of Homeland Security document [http://www.thenyic.org/ICEmemo] linked 40 arrests to NYC. But several
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Nine alleged gang members were indicted yesterday on charges of stealing more than $94,000 from banks using counterfeit checks. In two years, the defendants and co-conspirators reportedly deposited 241 counterfeit checks into 71 bank accounts at Bank of America, TD Bank, Capital One, and