![[Updated] Man Attacked & Robbed By Group At Flatbush Chicken Joint [Video]](/content/images/size/w600/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-15-at-9.59.16-AM.png)
Central Brooklyn
Video via NYPDSurveillance video via NYPD [Update 3/21: Police have arrested two 21-year-old men in connection with this assault, who have been charged with gang assault, robbery, and menacing.] A man was critically injured after being pummeled and then robbed at a fried chicken joint on Ocean Avenue after
Central Brooklyn
> Traffic alert: Coney island Ave from Ave I to Foster Ave and all side streets a total gridlock due to bomb threat again. pic.twitter.com/xDpy9LzaxJ [https://t.co/xDpy9LzaxJ] — nycphotog (@nycphotog) March 10, 2017 [https://twitter.com/nycphotog/status/840208773675438080] Midwood’s Jewish Association Services for the
Central Brooklyn
By Andres Rodriguez & Ashley Matos Three young accusers took the witness stand on Thursday to describe to a rapt courtroom how a former Brooklyn science teacher allegedly touched them inappropriately in their Ditmas Park elementary school (P.S. 249) between November 2012 and September 2014. The alleged victims of
Police & Fire
Flames ravaged a second-floor apartment building in Sheepshead Bay last night just after sundown, and neighbors caught it on Facebook live video. Dozens of firefighters rushed to the scene at 1611 Sheepshead Bay Road around 6pm on Thursday, March 9, said FDNY. The building was near East 16th Street and
News
Governor Cuomo speaking after a bomb threat was received at the Jewish Children’s Museum (Photo by davidlobl via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BRbORnLlB4P/?taken-at=1182477])The security team at the Jewish Children’s Museum located at 792 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights received an email at 8:
![Midwood Thief Snatches Phones From Synagogue [Video]](/content/images/size/w600/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-09-at-9.02.43-AM.png)
Central Brooklyn
Surveillance footage via NYPD Help cops track down a thief who stole phones from coat pockets in a Midwood synagogue in broad daylight last week. According to police reports, the suspect rode a men’s mountain bike to Congregation Verezky Synagogue at Avenue L and East 8th Street, on Friday,
community
Turkish American Eyüp Sultan Cultural Center (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Last week, a well-known Turkish mosque in Brighton Beach received a death threat letter signed by “Muslim Slayer” in what could be a national hate crime campaign. The letter was hand-delivered by the mail carrier to Imam Ibrahim Yavas
North Western Brooklyn
Photo by nadream70 via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BREeOLVD2xa/?taken-at=229160794]A 20-year-old Brooklyn man killed himself early this morning at the Smith-Ninth Street subway station, police say. The New York Post [http://nypost.com/2017/03/08/man-decapitates-himself-on-subway-tracks/] reports, Rubin Antonio Rodriguez set his head down on
Central Brooklyn
Officer Mike Smith (Photo obtained by BKLYNER)It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of 70th Precinct Police Officer Michael Smith. [Update – Funeral information: The wake will be held at Duffy’s Funeral Home on 3/9 & 3/10, 2pm–5pm & 7pm–9pm. The funeral
Police & Fire
(Photo via New York City Alerts/twitter)Last night, a woman was struck and killed by a pick-up truck while crossing the street between two parked cars in Gerritsen Beach, said cops. The woman, who was in her 50s, was crossing near Whitney Avenue and Gerritsen Avenue on Tuesday, February
News
88 Prospect Park West (Image via Google Maps)NYC Council Member Brad Lander (39th District) posted a message to his Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/brad.lander.7] yesterday urging Brooklynites to help Park Slope families displaced by a fire last Saturday (March 4) evening. “This past weekend, a
Central Brooklyn
A former teacher accused of groping five girls at a Ditmas Park public school agreed to a guilty plea on Monday – and then quickly changed his mind. Omil Carrasquillo, 38, is being tried at State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on charges [http://brooklynda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/carrasquillo_omil_