Police & Fire
Photo via ScreenshotA 66-year-old man was found dead from a gunshot wound inside a home in Bath Beach last night. On Wednesday, February 8, at around 6:30pm police found the unconscious man who had been shot in the torso, inside 103 Bay 8 Street, said cops. He was rushed
Central Brooklyn
Image via Google MapsIn partnership with the Brooklyn News Service [http://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/] A Brooklyn judge on Tuesday morning adjourned the case of the man accused of knifing a Hasidic male and two other men in a separate Prospect Park attack last year. Keny Rochelin, 26, who is
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Police & Fire
Help cops find suspected purse snatchers in two separate grand larceny incidents [/crime-drop-continues-sheepshead-bay-station-house/] only blocks apart in Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach. The first thief struck earlier this week in front of 2 West End Avenue. The suspect crept up behind a 67-year-old woman and grabbed the purse out of
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News
A manhole fire shot bursts of flames and smoke through Cortelyou Road last night, causing 56 neighbors to lose power. Here’s our eyewitness account from Cortelyou Road last night: During the last half hour, smoke has been filling houses and apartments near the Cortelyou Road train station. The cause
Police & Fire
Officer Craig Roth (left) receiving the Cop of the Month award from Captain Winston Faison, June 2016. (Photo: Alex Ellefson)Crime is down in almost every major felony in Sheepshead Bay’s 61st Precinct for 2016, according to annual crime statistics released by the NYPD. In the seven major crimes
Police & Fire
West 33rd Street between Neptune & Mermaid Avenues. (Screenshot via Google Maps) Two women and one man have been charged with gang assault after the death of a woman inside a Coney Island housing project earlier this year. Cops found Vanessa Rivera, 42, inside Surfside Gardens Houses on West 33rd
Neighbors
Coronet Gotham, 142 King Street, Red Hook, via Google Maps, circa August 2014 Dyker Heights resident Vasillios Georgiadis, aka William Georgiadis, 64, and his company, Coronet Gotham LLC (“Coronet Gotham”), located at 142 King Street in Red Hook have been charged with insurance fraud, grand larceny, failure to secure workers’
jobs
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that Timothy Gough will be the new Homicide Bureau Chief; Danielle Eaddy, Kin Ng and Robert Walsh will become the new heads of the Grey Zone, Red Zone and Blue Zone Trial Bureaus respectively. There are five Trial Bureaus in the Brooklyn
Police & Fire
Caton Avenue and East 18th, where Nelson was shot in 2015. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Pennsylvania man arrested in a January drug bust has been charged with a Flatbush murder from 2015. Manuel Waisome, 24, has been charged with fatally shooting 27-year-old Darnell Nelson in the chest on East
Neighbors
Salvatore Lucchesse leaving the 61st Precinct in police custody. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell/Sheepshead Bites.The Gravesend toddler’s gruesome death has been reclassified as a homicide, following an examination by the Medical Examiner’s Office. Salvatore Lucchesse, 24, was indicted on December 9, 2016 for beating his girlfriend’s
Police & Fire
“The leading cause of pedestrian injuries are left turning vehicles” NYPD flashing sign on Ocean Parkway south of Avenue X. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)In light of the recent traffic fatalities in southern Brooklyn [/second-fatal-collision-sheepshead-bay-week-marking-third-death-dangerous-intersection/] , we met with Captain Hagestad at the 61st Precinct to discuss how cops are
Animals
Dog Parker Located in Front of Brothers Bagels at 285 Court Street (Photo by dogparker_via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BP_ViQgh_lc/?taken-by=dogparker_])The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Man Smoking Crack