Police & Fire
Screenshot via Google MapsIn the first few days of 2017, one livery cab crash and one hit-and-run claimed the lives of two southern Brooklyn residents. Abraham Shmailov, 56, was killed in the back seat of a livery cab when an Infinity smashed into the cab at Avenue P and West
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Flickr/Metro Centric.A suspect connected to a series of attacks and robberies on elderly Russian women in Midwood was named and indicted with 20 counts, including hate crimes, according to acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Akmaljon Abakulov, 27, of Midwood, allegedly sought out older women to push
Police & Fire
Photo via Flickr/Metro Centric.The man responsible for the series of attacks and robberies on elderly Russian women in Midwood was named and indicted with 20 counts, including hate crimes, according to acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Akmaljon Abakulov, 27, of Midwood, allegedly sought out older women to push
Announcements
(Photo via Jewish Daily Forward [https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynBreakingNews/photos/a.10152220115617280.1073741825.269037602279/10154837144167280/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Yaffa Eliach, Holocaust survivor, photographer, historian, and Brooklyn College Professor, died Tuesday at age 79, reports the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/nyregion/yaffa-eliach-died-holocaust-memorial-museum.
News
15 East 19th Street, rendering by RoArt1. 15 East 19th Street, Flatbush ‘One of the most prolific small developers in Brooklyn’ plans to replace two Flatbush homes with another modern eight-story apartment building on a dead-end block off Church Avenue, reports YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/10/revealed-15-east-19th-street-flatbush.html]
Central Brooklyn
15 East 19th Street, rendering by RoArt1. 15 East 19th Street, Flatbush ‘One of the most prolific small developers in Brooklyn’ plans to replace two Flatbush homes with another modern eight-story apartment building on a dead-end block off Church Avenue, reports YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/10/revealed-15-east-19th-street-flatbush.html]
Business
(All photos by Ditmas Park Corner)Who says you have to travel to the Lower East Side for a barrel cured, Eastern European-style pickle? Eight years ago, owner and pickle master Alan Kaufman opened up a second branch of his famous LES store, The Pickle Guys [http://www.pickleguys.com/
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Google Maps.A man’s remains were found last week inside of his mother’s home in Midwood, according to police. A relative found the body, or what was left of it, at 2111 Avenue N (and East 21st Street) on Thursday, September 15, at around 1:30pm
Police & Fire
Photo via Google Maps.A man’s remains were found last week inside of his mother’s home in Midwood, according to police. A relative found the body, or what was left of it, at 2111 Avenue N on Thursday, September 15, at around 1:30pm while getting belongings for
Arts & Culture
(Photo credit: Lander Camarero)From his Midwood home, playwright & performer D.M. Kinch [https://brooklynculturejammers.com] has watched venues for alternative theater appear and disappear in Ditmas Park over the past 30 years. Kinch would welcome theater venues back to the neighborhood, especially venues to stage the politically charged
Central Brooklyn
Neighbors gather on Coney Island Avenue after two Bangladeshi Muslim men were killed in Ozone Park, Queens. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)“Today, we are all Bangladeshi,” said Pakistani activist Shahid Khan, outside the Makki Mosque on Coney Island Avenue on Monday night. Kensington and Midwood community members gathered here
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(Photo by Francisco Daum)We’re in the midst of the warmest part of the year and the news from around Brooklyn is hot, hot, hot! Find a comfy spot, pour a cold beverage, and read up on the best of what’s been going down ’round the County of