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FLATLANDS – Another pedestrian was killed by a driver. This time, a 33-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle last week. Ingrid Pineda-Cuellar was crossing the street at Avenue L and Utica Avenue on Thursday, June 27 at around 6:53 a.m. Cops say she was crossing west to east
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Monique Chandler-Waterman (left) and Farah Louis. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner) EAST FLATBUSH—City Council Member Farah Louis has held on to her seat. In a near replay of the May special election, Louis on Tuesday beat her main opponent, Monique Chandler-Waterman, by about 700 votes— a smaller margin of victory
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CANARSIE/FLATLANDS – One motorcyclist was killed and another was seriously injured in two separate crashes less than a mile from each other in southern Brooklyn on Monday, police said. Motorcycle in fatal crash remains in middle of Flatlands Avenue. (Photo by Lloyd Mitchell)The motorcyclist killed in yesterday’s crash
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EAST FLATBUSH — Some people in East Flatbush call Kings Highway, “Kings Speedway,” in spite of the numerous speed and bus lane cameras and heavy police patrols. But Tuesday evening, speed was responsible for the death of yet another man in the space of three weeks, only blocks apart as a
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A rendering of the new development that will replace a gas station on Flatbush Avenue (Via S9 Architects)FLATLANDS – A gas station on Flatbush Avenue near Brooklyn College will be replaced by a 13-story mixed-use development. The building will consist of residential rentals above ground floor retail, with a design
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East 58th Street in Flatlands, near where the man was arrested (Screenshot via Google Maps)FLATLANDS – A man died after being arrested by police officers responding to a call in Flatlands early yesterday morning. Just before 6:00 am, on Tuesday, October 23, police responded to a call of a
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(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)MARINE PARK – Police have finally identified the third suspect from the home invasion robbery in Marine Park earlier this week. Tyrique Rushing, 20, is wanted in connection with the robbery and sexual assault of a couple in their 70s. His two accomplices have already been caught and
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] Three deaths in three Brooklyn neighborhoods this weekend have police investigating, with one arrest, along with new information in a shooting from last week: BED-STUY – Around 2:15 am on Sunday, September
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Passengers boarding a B82 bus in Brooklyn (Source: MTA [http://www.nyc.gov/html/brt/downloads/pdf/2015-10-14-brt-southbrooklyn-bkbsc.pdf] )FLATLANDS – An MTA bus driver drunk on cheap vodka crashed his B82 bus into a row of cars early Sunday morning in Flatlands, said police, while nine people were on board.
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The home at 1666 East 49th Street that caught fire last night, claiming the life of a resident (Screenshot via Google Maps)FLATLANDS – Last night, a fire tore through a two-story home in Flatlands, leaving a woman dead from smoke inhalation. The FDNY received a call about the fire at
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Along with the shooting death and subsequent arrest of a suspect in Boreum Hill [/suspect-arrested-in-fatal-friday-night-shooting-in-boerum-hill/] over the weekend, three more tragic murders took place in the first full weekend of May, scattered across the borough. Looking up at 1655 Flatbush, where Troy Jones was found murdered over the weekend (Screenshot
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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