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PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS – A livery cab driver was robbed Friday night in PLG, but the suspects didn’t realize he had a camera running in the car—now, police are trying to track them down. Around 11:20 pm on Friday, July 27, the 36-year old male driver had just
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Fort Greene mural by Misha Tyutyunik at Myrtle & Carlton (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bklyner], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bklyner], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and subscribe [/subscribe/]. If
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Renderings for the new building slated for 215 North 10th Street in Williamsburg (By Morris Adjmi Architects)WILLIAMSBURG – Another anodyne contemporary luxury development is headed for Williamsburg—this time at 215 North 10th, between Roebling and Driggs. The seven-story building will feature ground-floor retail space while adding 30 apartments in
Bushwick
The soccer field at the Bushwick playground, where three young men were shot last night (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – Three people were shot and one killed at a playground in Bushwick yesterday evening, police confirmed. Around 6:30 pm on Thursday, July 26, a 911 call went out for
Big Story
Park Manor Home for Adults, 570 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Liena Zagare/Bklyner)DITMAS PARK -When the front door of the run-down building that had been home to Park Manor Home for Adults since at least 1983 was suddenly padlocked last April [https://bklyner.com/park-manor-adult-home-closed-good/], it took the
Central Brooklyn
Reminiscing about “old Brooklyn” from back in the day—way back (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Recent incidents with ICE—like the detention of Pablo the pizza delivery man [/pablo-villavicencio-freed/]—have been major causes for attention in Brooklyn and beyond. But as the immigration clampdown continues in the US, one Brooklyn community—
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerPARK SLOPE – Last night, elected officials, concerned residents and mothers of children killed by reckless drivers met at Park Slope’s M.S. 51 to talk strategy after the program authorizing speed cameras outside 140 New York City schools expired yesterday. Lawmakers in Albany could have renewed
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Photo via Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office.Yesterday, the final two suspects charged in the killing of Carey Gabay, the Cuomo aide who was shot and killed in Crown Heights in 2015 during the J’Ouvert celebrations, were cleared of murder charges. As family members objected in the courtroom, the
Announcements
Villavicencio with his two daughters. (Photo via Sandra Chica)BAY RIDGE – Pablo Villavicencio, a pizza delivery man from Long Island, was released from ICE yesterday after nearly two months in custody. 35-year-old Villavicencio was detained by ICE on June 1 after delivering pizza to the US Army Garrison Fort Hamilton
Central Brooklyn
Police found a credit card skimmer on an ATM at Grimaldi’s pizza in DUMBO (Screenshot via Google Maps)DUMBO – Someone was trying to steal a little extra cheddar at Grimaldi’s. Police are looking for the man who installed a credit card skimmer on an ATM at the well-known
Central Brooklyn
Vape life under the lights in Luna Park (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)A shocking video has surfaced of a hit-and-run driver reversing into pedestrians in Borough Park [http://gothamist.com/2018/07/23/driver_caught_on_video_reversing_ov.php]. A local resident, Juan Paulino, was arrested, but the NYPD isn’