Police & Fire
(Photo: mikey k / flickr)Two shootings marred Easter celebrations in Coney Island on Sunday, according to authorities. The day started when a 33-year-old man was shot twice in the leg just before 8pm outside the Carey Gardens housing project on West 23rd Street, near Mermaid Avenue, according to police. The
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/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/667-16-BRS-03-02-16-UPDATED-VID.mp4Footage from violent incident in Kensington on March 26. (Video via NYPD) After striking for at least a fifth time this weekend, police continue to pursue [/blog/crime/suspect-who-choked-elderly-woman-strikes-again-in-park-slope-and-queens-cops-say/] a suspect wanted in a string of violent incidents targeting elderly women. On Saturday, March 26,
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Image was captured from vicinity of 55 Prospect Place. (Image via NYPD)Cops says the suspect already wanted for multiple violent incidents involving elderly women in Park Slope has now been connected to another neighborhood incident as well as one that took place in the Ridgewood section of Queens. On
Bensonhurst
Source: NYPDCops are looking for a police impersonator who grabbed a school girl in Gravesend earlier this month. The unknown man approached his 13-year-old victim on Monday, March 7, at 8am, in front of 2221 West 5th Street, and tugged on her book bag, requesting her school ID, according to
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. * Police say a 311 call on March 15, at 12:15am alerted them that a white Honda accord was
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Interview via CBS News [http://cbsloc.al/1Rly9of] After being attacked by an unhinged, mallet-wielding man last Sunday, [/blog/crime/unhinged-man-beats-freshdirect-worker-with-mallet-on-bustling-atlantic-avenue-graphic-video/] FreshDirect worker and assault victim Kevin Tello spoke with CBS News [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/03/23/fresh-direct-driver-beaten/] from his hospital room about the violent incident. “He just
Bensonhurst
Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson is urging a judge to go easy on the rookie cop from Bensonhurst who was convicted on manslaughter charges [/mostly-white-jury-convicts-officer-peter-liang-the-rookie-cop-from-gravesend/#.VvMOUBIrKSN] last month for fatally shooting and failing to aid an unarmed black man. In a statement released today, Thompson recommended probation and house arrest
Central Brooklyn
Kingsboro Psychiatric Center at 681 Clarkson Avenue, and East 44th Street. (Photo: NYS Office of Mental Health)Gregory Alfred, who was arrested in connection with the March 10th slashing of a woman on Beverley Road [/blog/crime/woman-slashed-this-morning/], had been previously hospitalized for mental illness, according to news reports. Alfred,
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Warning: This video includes graphic content. (Video via YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8tNCpuAQXc]) A car accident on Atlantic Avenue just a few blocks from Barclays Center led to a mallet-wielding man’s attack on a FreshDirect worker in broad daylight on Atlantic Avenue. According to the New
Police & Fire
(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a man who broke into a synagogue earlier this month and stole the congregation’s collection money. Authorities say the thief climbed through a window at Congregation Kozover [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Congregation-Kozover/1510735702556179], located on East 28th Street, between
Police & Fire
Photo provided by the NYPDA good samaritan was stabbed in Brighton Beach Sunday morning when he tried to break up an argument, police say. The victim, a 27-year-old man, was stopped at Brighton 13th Street and Oceanview Avenue at around 4:20am, when he noticed a man arguing with a
Neighbors
Image courtesy of 72nd Precinct.There’s a new captain in town. NYPD Captain Emmanuel Gonzalez has joined the 72nd Precinct as its new commanding officer, taking over for outgoing Captain Tommy M. Ng, who is now leading the 5th Precinct in Manhattan’s Chinatown. “I’m gonna miss Captain