Neighbors
/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/new-video.mp4Video via NYPD Additional video has been released as police search for a suspect in an incident involving a 91-year-old Elizabeth Gioino [/blog/crime/91-year-old-woman-choked-robbed-and-threatened-with-a-gun-on-9th-street-police-say/] , who was choked, robbed, and threatened with a handgun. The video provides a look from a different angle. On Wednesday
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanHere’s our roundup of some of the crime reports that happened in and around Bensonhurst in the last two weeks, courtesy of the NYPD’s 62nd Precinct. * On March 4, at 11am, a 52-year-old man returning to his house on West 4th Street noticed the back
Neighbors
Left-Right: Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, Senator Kevin S. Parker, BP Eric Adams, Senator Jesse Hamilton, NYPD 78th Precinct Commanding Officer Frank DiGiacomo. In background, hidden, Community Activist Tony Herbert. (Courtesy of the Office of BP Adams)Standing across the street from 551 9th Street, where Elizabeth Gioino, the 91-year-old
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Photo via NYPDNew video has been released as police search for a suspect in an incident involving a 91-year-old Elizabeth Gioino [/blog/crime/91-year-old-woman-choked-robbed-and-threatened-with-a-gun-on-9th-street-police-say/] , who was choked, robbed, and threatened with a handgun. On Wednesday March 2, 2016, at approximately 1:00pm, the suspect approached Gioino from behind as she
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Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for a suspect in an incident involving a 91-year-old woman who was choked, robbed, and threatened with a handgun. On Wednesday March 2, 2016, at approximately 1:00pm, the suspect approached the victim from behind as she entered 551 9th Street (between 8th Avenue and
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The first incident occurred on 14th Street near 8th Avenue nearby the Pavilion Theater. (Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6619076,-73.9799985,3a,75y,132.1h,81.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stE5s-JjjUe4TwsUI5E0OHQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656] )Two incidents occurring five blocks from each other on
muggings
The Crime Prevention Unit of the NYPD’s 61st Precinct issued an alert to neighbors last week warning of a rash of muggings targeting teens and kids on their way home from school. According to cops, the robberies usually begin when one to two male black perpetrators in their late
gun violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUYIN6vg5Go&feature=youtu.be Police are seeking a man they believe is responsible for two consecutive muggings on a recent weekend, one on the Sunset Park/Dyker Heights border and another in Gowanus. The first incident occurred on Saturday, March 07, at around
batchelder st
Two men are wanted by the police for allegedly mugging an elderly man on Avenue U and Batchelder Street on Monday. Cops say the men came up behind their 83-year-old victim at approximately 5:10pm on November 10. One grabbed the victim and placed his hand over his mouth. The
eric gay
Surveillance video captured the suspect after one of his robberies. (Source: Gothamist)A man believed to be behind as many as eight armed subway robberies was arrested after his latest mugging, which occurred at Gravesend’s Avenue U station on the F line. CBS News reports [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/
cicadas
Martha will open for dinner on August 6. (Photo courtesy of Martha)Brooklyn Sandwich Society was always about more than sandwiches. But after opening under that name 9 months ago [http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/restaurateurs-go-beyond-the-basic-sandwich/] , the chefs and owners of the seasonal farm-to-table restaurant began to