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New Jersey Man Shot To Death At Gas Station

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerEAST NEW YORK – Cops are looking for the person that shot a New Jersey man to death over the weekend. On Sunday, April 19 at around 8:55 a.m., cops arrived at Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard at a gas station to find 33-year-old Michael Ingram

Borough Park

Boro Park Man Hoarded Medical Supplies, Coughed On FBI Agents

BORO PARK – A man was arrested by the FBI for allegedly coughing on the agents and lying about hoarding ‘scarce medical equipment’ this morning. Baruch Feldheim, 43, allegedly hoarded and sold certain medical supplies like N95 masks to doctors and nurses for extremely high prices. According to the U.S

Announcements

Two Brooklyn Natives Are Victims of New Jersey Kosher Market Shooting

JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City. Courtesy of Google Maps.NEW JERSEY — In the shootout that left six people dead, including one police officer, two of the victims had Brooklyn roots. On Tuesday, December 10, around noon, a shooting began in a cemetery in New Jersey, when Detective Joseph Seals,

Announcements

New Jersey Motorcyclist Dead After Collision On The BQE

BQE and Brooklyn Heights Promenade (Photo: Nathan Haselby)BROOKLYN QUEENS EXPRESSWAY – A New Jersey man is dead after being thrown off his motorcycle on the BQE yesterday and being hit by a vehicle which then left the scene. At about 1 a.m. on July 4th, 37-year-old Daniel Costa was

News

NJ Man Arrested For Murdering Girlfriend, Disposing Torso In Red Hook Channel

The tattoo that helped identify Londono’s body, via NYPDA 40-year-old Bergenfield, New Jersey man was arrested on Thursday, July 6 for the murder and dismemberment of 31-year-old, nightclub manager, Jennifer Londono, whose body parts were discovered in the Red Hook Channel and Hudson River. Raphael Lolos, who was Londono’

family

15 Places To Go Apple-Picking Within A Two-Hour Drive Of Brooklyn

Photo by Mary Bakija/City Kid CornerNew York’s state fruit is the apple, and boy do we New Yorkers love our apple-picking. We’ve rounded up 15 apple orchards within a two-hour drive of Brooklyn (barring any traffic, of course) for you to enjoy this fall. Got any favorites

121st precinct

Updated: Two Arrested In Bath Beach After Wild Verrazano Bridge Chase [Video]

Two men were apprehended in Bath Beach today after leading New Jersey police on a dramatic chase through Staten Island and across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The men, as least one of whom is believed to be wanted by U.S. Marshalls for an armed robbery in the Sunshine State and

Transportation

Voice Your Opinion On The Cross Harbor Freight Program Tomorrow, February 3 1

Image via the Port Authority [http://www.panynj.gov/about/CHFP_draft_Tier_1_EIS/05_Transportation.pdf] Tomorrow, February 3, from 4-8pm at Brooklyn Borough Hall (209 Joralemon Street), you’ll be able to tell the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey what you think of their 10

arkady shenker

Bath Beach Resident Dies In Skydiving Accident

A man dives in a wingsuit over California. (Source: pictcorrect/Flickr)Bath Beach resident Arkady Shenker, 49, died yesterday afternoon in a skydiving accident in New Jersey. Authorities believe that his parachute failed to open causing him to free fall to the ground, where he was later found by police

Airports

Midwood Resident Crashes Private Plane In New Jersey

Source: Fairfield PoliceMidwood resident Chaim Masri, 46, crashed a single-engine Cesna Model 172 after touching down at a Fairfield, New Jersey, airport on Monday evening. Masri brought the small plane in for a landing at Essex County Airport just before 7:00 p.m. When the plane hit the runway,

Federal

Photo Finish: Summer Sets into Autumn

The Brooklyn skyline and a few skyscrapers from lower Manhattan viewed at dusk from Clinton Hill. (Photo by Francisco Daum) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/]The calendar says it’s fall, but the weather has been saying otherwise. The temperatures are still warm enough to be outdoors at almost

Arrested Development

Pet Spotlight: Ziggy “Falcor” Stardust the Mutt

Ziggy’s nickname is Falcor. He has lived in Fort Greene Park for almost a year. (Photo by Antonia Massa)We met Ziggy “Falcor” Stardust – Ziggy or Zigs for short – in Fort Greene Park, where he was laying on the grass with his owner, Farah Khalid. Ziggy is a mutt;

CB2

Tell us Your Story of Two Fort Greenes

(Photo by Christopher Dell)Last week we launched “Two Fort Greenes [http://twofortgreenes.dev.bklyner.com] ,” the first of many multimedia projects we expect to publish at The Nabe. Now that you’ve all had a chance to see our report, we want to hear your side of the story

arrests

Midwood Couple Busted For Scheme To Start Baby-Sitting Service, Molest Kids As Young As 2 Months Old

BaslanAuthorities busted a Midwood couple [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-sicko-plotted-setup-cover-baby-sitting-biz-sexually-abuse-kids-article-1.1294718] Tuesday, claiming the duo was scheming to sexually abuse three children – one as young as two months old – at a Jersey City hotel. Bebars Baslan, 35, and Kirsten Henry, 25, were nabbed at the hotel where they had

2012

Colton’s Countdown To Sales Tax Relief

Source: 401K via FlickrIn just a few short days, Bensonhurst shoppers will begin paying less on small purchases at local clothing stores. And in order to commemorate this countdown to compulsory consumer savings, Assemblyman William Colton has sent out a press release with some front-page news for the frugal. It

governor

VIDEO: Grimm Comments On MF Global Hearings

In the above YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JYltV7lhaF4] video, Rep. Michael Grimm speaks with Fox News about his questioning of former New Jersey Governor John Corzine during Congressional hearings on the MF Global scandal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Global]. U.S. Rep.

beach

Concrete Coney Boardwalk? New Jersey Laughs At Us

Source: preservationnation.orgDid we all see the other day how Ned cleverly inserted the word “Jerk-hattan [/sunday-bayfest-2011-weve-got-the-program-guide/]” into a post? I loved it. As a good friend of mine [http://cheeseaisle.blogspot.com/] is fond of saying: “I laughed [http://elisson1.blogspot.com/2005/01/team-america-world-police-movie-review.html] ’til I peed