Animals
CANARSIE – “Our dog is missing, we need Brooklyn’s help!” Meredith, a Manhattan resident, tells BKLYNER. Meredith and her fiancé went to visit family out of state for the holidays and entrusted their one-year-old Shih Tzu/Maltese mix, Lily, in the care of her usual dog-walker. The walker was familiar
News
Brooklyn Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)FLATLANDS – Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that a Flatlands waitress has been indicted on grand larceny, identity theft, and other charges for allegedly stealing nearly $500,000 from an elderly customer of a diner where the
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Fritz Jean Pierre (Via NYPD)Flatlands – The NYPD are asking the public’s assistance in locating a missing 67-year-old Flatlands resident. Fritz Jean Pierre, who lives on Brooklyn Avenue near Avenue I, was last seen on Wednesday, August 23 at approximately 1:30pm near the corner of Flatbush Avenue and
Police & Fire
The NYPD has released information on a pattern of robberies in the Sheepshead Bay and Flatlands neighborhoods last month. A pair of robberies took place in the early hours of Thursday, July 20, police report. The first took place at 1:35am, in a 7-11 at 2247 Utica Ave, near
Police & Fire
Intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Avenue M, July 18, 2017 (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)On Sunday, an elderly man was struck and killed by a car while walking across Flatbush Avenue near the Marine Park border. The 83-year-old man was struck by a Toyota driving southbound on Flatbush Avenue,
Central Brooklyn
Seven Brooklyn residents have been indicted for allegedly using electronic check deposit system to cash money orders multiple times, stealing almost $120,000 from banks, said the Brooklyn DA. Investigators charged Flatbush residents Jermel Belfast, 30, Kadeem Bryan, 23, Juvaun Clarke, 25, Chevelle Gordon, 20, and Brian McIntosh, 23; as
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Police & Fire
> On Friday Afternoon in Brooklyn on Nostrand Ave and Ave M. pic.twitter.com/ihyTbu2yQs [https://t.co/ihyTbu2yQs] — NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) January 15, 2017 [https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/820758351990681603] A woman was struck by a mini school bus on Friday afternoon in the crosswalk at Nostrand Avenue
Police & Fire
Photo via Google MapsPolice responded to a call of an unconscious woman inside a house at 2016 Schenectady Ave around 10pm, according to the NYPD. A woman found the 53-year-old woman’s body at the house, where she had been staying for about two weeks, and called the police. They
Police & Fire
Site of the shooting. Photo via Google Maps.A man was shot and killed on East 56 Street between Avenue O and Fillmore Avenue on Thursday September 1 at around 12:30pm, according to police. Kendell Walcott, 24, was killed down the road from his home on the corner of
christopher wiltshire
Approximate location of the accident. (Source: Google Maps)Flatlands resident Christopher Wiltshire, 35, was found dead yesterday afternoon near Shell Bank Creek in Gerritsen Beach. Paramedics responded to a call of an accident near the creek, past the brush east of Gerritsen Avenue, at approximately 5pm. They found Wiltshire unresponsive
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It is not a matter of if 773 Lounge [https://www.facebook.com/773Lounge?fref=ts] will come back, but when – and after hundreds of people came out to support the watering hole at a fundraiser this past weekend [/events/this-saturday-raise-your-glass-to-help-773-lounge-rebuild], the owners are much closer to reopening a spot
Department of Health
The city Department of Health will be spraying mosquito-killing pesticides throughout parts of our neighborhood tonight, between 8:15pm and 6am – which was supposed to happen last week [http://ditmasparkcorner.com/blog/health/west-nile-spraying-in-our-area-tonight-what-to-do] but ended up being canceled because of the rain, according to a DOH spokeswoman. The area