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94th Precinct/Courtesy of Google MapsWILLIAMSBURG – A 27-year-old man, Jonathan Ramos, was shot early Saturday morning outside Williamsburg’s Cooper Houses in the 94th Precinct. At 2:37 AM, 911 was called to report the shooting. Ramos was alive upon police arrival but died shortly after he was transported to
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerGREENPOINT – A series of anti-Semitic messages written on United States Postal Service mailing labels were discovered posted around the neighborhood Sunday morning. According to Greenpointers.com [https://greenpointers.com/2019/01/07/greenpoint-inundated-with-anti-semitic-and-hate-propaganda/] , a couple discovered the labels on several lampposts along McGuinness Boulevard and removed them.
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GREENPOINT – A wild road rage incident that could have easily turned deadly was caught on camera in Greenpoint on Tuesday. A dramatic video shows two men fighting in the street as one of them swings a box cutter, according to police. When the fight is over, one of the participants
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GREENPOINT – Police are looking for the suspect who assaulted and attempted to rape a woman yesterday afternoon in Greenpoint. The attack came around 3:30 pm yesterday, June 21, in the vicinity of Meeker and Kingsland Avenues, near the BQE. A man knocked at the door of the victim’s
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] WILLIAMSBURG – After baseball-bat beatdown near the Williamsburg waterfront earlier this week, police have released surveillance video in an effort to track down the suspect. The attack took place around 9:30 am
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Jaren Canady and Alyssa Grippo were found dead from an apparent drug overdose in their Williamsburg apartment last weekend (Photo via Facebook)UPDATE (5/3/18) – The NYPD has released the names of the two people found dead in Williamsburg over the weekend. Jaren F. Canady, 28, and Alyssa Grippo,
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
Greenpoint
UPDATE 11/4/17: Police have released security footage of the suspect and an accomplice, who stood as lookout during the attack: GREENPOINT – Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the perpetrator of a violent robbery in a Greenpoint residence this week. The incident took place on
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WILLIAMSBURG – Police are seeking five men in connection with a violent robbery perpetrated in Williamsburg last month. Just after 4:00 am on Monday, October 30, a 35-year old man was assaulted in front of 230 North 5th Street, after 5 men clad in dark clothing approached him from behind,
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Looking northbound on Morgan Ave at the corner of Withers Street, where the fatal accident took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)UPDATE: The deceased motorcyclist has been identified as Danny Tsang, 28, of Ridgewood, Queens. EAST WILLIAMSBURG – A traffic accident this morning caused the death of a motorcyclist when his
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GREENPOINT – The North Brooklyn Coalition Against Family Violence is holding a vigil tonight [https://www.facebook.com/events/667082790160546/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22page_upcoming_events_card%5C%22%2C%
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The security cameras in McGolrick Park have been upgraded (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – The NYPD 94th precinct will benefit from increased police numbers both in McGolrick Park and throughout Greenpoint and Williamsburg after a summer fraught with fatal violence and community concerns over hate speech. State Assemblyman Joe Lentol was