Police & Fire
(Photo: Sean Loyless [https://www.flickr.com/photos/haggismac/5230432460/] / Flickr)Police charged a Coney Island resident with a hate crime after he allegedly chased four Pakistani men in Marine Park Saturday night while screaming “I want to see Arab blood in the streets.” The Daily News reports [http://www.
Police & Fire
Photo by Erica ShermanPolice are investigating a possible hate crime at Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’ district office where some anti-Russian graffiti was found after Thanksgiving weekend, the news site JP Updates reports [http://jpupdates.com/2015/12/01/assemblyman-cymbrowitz-office-vandalized-with-anti-russian-graffiti/] . The vandalism was reported Monday afternoon when staffers discovered that a hammer
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanA man was beat up and taunted with anti-semitic remarks in Borough Park Wednesday. The 21-year-old victim, who is of Bukharan Jewish descent, was walking from the D train’s New Utrecht Avenue station near 43rd Street at 3:30pm, when the perpetrator shouted at him “slow
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanA man was beat up and taunted with anti-semitic remarks in Borough Park Wednesday. The 21-year-old victim, who is of Bukharan Jewish descent, was walking from the D train’s New Utrecht Avenue station near 43rd Street at 3:30pm, when the perpetrator shouted at him “slow
Councilman
Photo of the Asa Robert provided by the NYPD.The teen accused of raping an 82-year-old woman [/teen-identified-as-suspect-in-brutal-rape-of-82-year-old-coney-island-woman/] in her Brighton Beach home was arrested early Friday morning, police say. Eighteen-year-old Asa Robert was apprehended at 3:45am on Putnam Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to police. Although in custody, police
anti-semitism
A 23-year-old man has been charged with hate crime after assaulting two Jewish men in separate incidents last week, JP Updates reports [http://jpupdates.com/2015/06/07/nypd-man-who-assaulted-two-hasidic-jews-in-brooklyn-arrested/] : > The incidents occurred on Friday May 22nd, 2015, when the suspect, identified as Shadi Rabah, assaulted two Hasidic men walking
300 Ocean Parkway
Police are asking the public for help in tracking down a man wanted for writing anti-Muslim graffiti on two U.S. Postal boxes on Ocean Parkway on Saturday, September 6. According to the NYPD, the graffiti was written around 4:54am on the postal boxes in front of 300 Ocean
2165 coney island ave
Source: Google MapsUPDATE (4:21 p.m.): The Times has more [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/nyregion/eyes-on-gaza-tensions-flare-in-brooklyn.html] on both incidents. On the Midwood incident: > On Friday evening, outside a prayer gathering preceding the nightly meal, men in a white Lexus flung eggs at three elderly
A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen
Two neighboring restaurants on DeKalb Avenue were burglarized during the night of March 19. A worker at Hot Chix, 110 DeKalb Avenue, said he found the register was broken and $400 in cash was missing. He said the rear door was unlocked when he came in at 8 a.m.
hate crime
Source: Indy Trendy Skits/FlickrThe following is a press release jointly issued by Councilman David Greenfield, State Senator Simcha Felder and Councilman-elect Chaim Deutsch: Following yet another ‘knockout’ assault targeting an innocent pedestrian this past Saturday, Councilman David G. Greenfield, Senator Simcha Felder and Councilman-elect Chaim Deutsch are calling on
audrey feifer
Jeffrey Babbitt in a recent photo taken by neighbor Robert Pizzimenti, via Newsday.Jeffrey Babbitt, the victim of a deranged assault by 31-year-old Lashawn Marten, died yesterday at the age of 62. A New York Times obituary [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/nyregion/friends-mourn-man-fatally-assaulted-in-union-square-park.html] noted the deep
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Rev. Al Sharpton leading the first protest march over the death of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, 1989.Last week, the Daily News featured Bensonhurst as part of a lead story for Best Places To Live In NY [http://bestplaces.nydailynews.com/stories/bensonhurst-transforms-international-families-move] – an online version of their supplemental real