Announcements
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
clinton hill
FORT GREENE/CLINTON HILL – The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org] is encouraging neighbors to get outside and enjoy the spring weather with free yoga classes, walking tours, and bicycling promotions. Sunset Stretch Yoga courtesy of Myrtle Ave BKLYNThe Sunset Stretch Series [https://www.facebook.com/events/2381097038787977/] kicked
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CLINTON HILL – The NYPD is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying four men who violently beat and robbed a 30-year-old man last week. At approximately 12:40am on Tuesday, March 12, four men followed the victim to the front of 957 Fulton Street near the corner of Washington Avenue,
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An 80-year old man died a few days after an altercation at Hanson Place and South Elliot Place, police said (Screenshot via Google Maps)FORT GREENE – An 80-year old man died last weekend after being pushed to the ground in an altercation, said police, and the man responsible has been
Downtown Brooklyn
Outside the Prince Street homeless shelter where a man was beaten to death last night (Screenshot via Google Maps)DOWNTOWN – A 64-year old man was beaten to death in a homeless shelter in Downtown Brooklyn in the early hours of Monday morning, police confirmed today. Around 12:30 am on
Bed Stuy
Over the weekend, even as Brooklynites celebrated Chinese New Year and took off work for President’s day, a series of deaths struck across the borough as the tragic long weekend claimed at least four lives. A man was found dead in the passenger seat of a car in front
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FORT GREENE – Police are looking for the man who sexually assaulted and robbed a woman in Fort Greene over the weekend. The 22-year old victim was walking along Greene Avenue towards Adelphi Street around 3:00 am on Saturday, November 25 when the suspect approached her and engaged her in
News
A selection of guns the 83rd precinct recovered in Bushwick (Image via Twitter) The NYPD has been working hard to get guns off the streets of Brooklyn this October. In the first half of the month, precincts have been tweeting out pictures of confiscated guns under the #OneLessGun [https://twitter.
Central Brooklyn
BROOKLYN – They’re back. After a rash of thefts from phone stores in the spring of this year, a new incident earlier this month has led the NYPD to identify a pattern of grand larcenies all across Brooklyn. The duo wanted for questioning in the case hit phone stores from
North Western Brooklyn
Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for suspects who stole keys and crept into a Clinton Hill apartment in the middle of the night and robbed two men at knifepoint. Seeing two men stumbling toward their apartment, one of them carrying the other, the female suspect offered to help the 28-year-old
Police & Fire
Help cops find four suspects accused of ambushing a teenage girl and punching her in the face on 4th Avenue near Gowanus yesterday. The 17-year-old victim was standing in front of 88A 4th Avenue when she was surrounded by about 20 people on Thursday, January 12 at 7pm, said cops.
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The NYPD is seeking help in locating a 14-year-old neighbor Chavis Pubill, missing since Saturday. Pubill was last seen on July 23 around 12:45pm at 309 Lafayette Avenue, according to police reports. He is described as a black man with brown eyes and black hair, 5 feet 4 inches
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Walt Whitman Houses (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus / Justin Fox)Police have identified a woman who was shot and killed [/blog/2016/07/22/cops-help-identifying-woman-killed-whitman-houses/]at the Walt Whitman Houses last Thursday, as 26-year-old Coral O’Brien from Los Lunas, New Mexico. When police found her, responding to a call at
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Captain John Buttacovoli is addressing the 88th Precinct Community Council executive board and Fort Greene residents. (Courtesy Elizabeth Elizalde)“Bullets don’t have names on them,” said NYPD Captain John Buttacovoli, the new Commanding Officer of the 88th precinct. The 88th Precinct Community Council welcomed its new Commanding Officer to
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A gun bust in Fort Greene turned up a stockpile of weapons and a sizable amount of weed. A machine gun, two pistols, a bb gun, and hundreds of rounds of ammo were recovered early Wednesday morning at 330 Hudson Walk in the Ingersoll Houses, according to cops. They also
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As you likely already know, the area surrounding Gates Avenue and Irving Place was the site of two sexual assaults within one hour [/blog/2014/09/12/police-seek-two-clinton-hill-sexual-assault-suspects/] one morning at the end of last month. While police have arrested and charged a 17-year-old suspect [/blog/2014/09/22/17-year-old-arrested-in-clinton-hill-double-sexual-assault-investigation/