Central Brooklyn
The block of Coney Island Avenue, near Glenwood Road, on which Pearl Travel was located. (Photo: Google Maps)Yesterday, a Midwood travel agent was sentenced to up to 6 years in prison for pocketing $350,000 from Pakistani immigrants for whom he was supposed to make travel arrangements to Mecca.
North Western Brooklyn
Image via NYPDPolice are warning Park Slope residents about a string of recent robberies taking place in the neighborhood and advising locals to lock their doors and windows. CBS New York [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/04/18/park-slope-burglary/] reported on the robberies last night. The two latest incidents occurred
fort greene
A screen shot of Jamel Chandler from the video he posted to Facebook LiveA 21-year-old man trying to escape the police fell eleven stories to his death Tuesday evening in Fort Greene. The NYPD say they were seeking Jamel Chandler in connection to a robbery. Chandler, who was recently released
North Western Brooklyn
Famous Deli & Grocery, 783 Hicks Street in Red Hook (Image via Google)Two employees of the Famous Deli & Grocery at 783 Hicks Street in Red Hook were shot by a customer Tuesday morning, the NYPD report. At 8:40am on Tuesday, April 18, two workers tried escorting a
Police & Fire
(Photo via Status Q surveillance footage)An unknown sleuth broke into a Bay Ridge billiard bar in April, said cops and business owners. Status Q, a bar and billiards hall on 3rd Avenue between 82nd and 83rd Streets, was robbed on April 2 between 4:30am and 8:30am, said
Central Brooklyn
Cortelyou Road & East 17th Street, Friday April 14. (Photo by Dina Rabiner/BKLYNER)A Brooklyn contractor has been arrested for sparking the blaze on Friday in Ditmas Park [/kitchen-fire-causes-traffic-backup-cortelyou-road/] that had traffic backed up on Cortelyou Road. Though a witness originally heard from firefighters that the flames sparked in
Central Brooklyn
1703 Avenue J. (Screenshot via Google Maps)Two men broke into the apartment on top of a Midwood synagogue, left the caretaker beaten and bloody, and robbed the place on Sunday before sunrise, said cops. The suspects beat the 53-year-old victim in the face with a metal garden tool in
North Western Brooklyn
Image via NYPDPolice are searching for the man in the above photo in connection to a robbery that occurred during the evening rush hour at the Jay Street A/C/F subway station in Downtown Brooklyn. A woman’s wallet was pinched from her purse on Monday, March 13, at
Police & Fire
> Shooting a Coney island pic.twitter.com/d2abEceEKx [https://t.co/d2abEceEKx] — Vladislav (@vladislovekim) April 16, 2017 [https://twitter.com/vladislovekim/status/853754568211083267] On Sunday, false reports of gunshots set off a panic among hoards of Coney Island visitors, sending revelers running and screaming in all directions. “Just as
Central Brooklyn
Cortelyou Road & East 17th Street, Friday April 14. (Photo by Dina Rabiner/BKLYNER)This afternoon, a kitchen fire tore through an apartment on East 18th Street and Cortelyou Road, closing down the busy thoroughfare. The fire sparked just after 2pm on Friday, April 14, at 380 East 18th Street,
Central Brooklyn
Seven Brooklyn residents have been indicted for allegedly using electronic check deposit system to cash money orders multiple times, stealing almost $120,000 from banks, said the Brooklyn DA. Investigators charged Flatbush residents Jermel Belfast, 30, Kadeem Bryan, 23, Juvaun Clarke, 25, Chevelle Gordon, 20, and Brian McIntosh, 23; as
North Western Brooklyn
Photo courtesy of bee721 / flickrOn the evening of November 6, 2016 [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cops-investigate-death-10-month-old-girl-brooklyn-article-1.2862284] , police responded to a call at 722 Henry Street in Red Hook where they found an unsupervised, unconscious ten-month-old girl in a bathtub. EMS rushed Meilani Hernandez to Methodist Hospital where she