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Police & Fire
> Quick response by #Aviation [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Aviation?src=hash] ASR #Harbor [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harbor?src=hash] #SCUBA [https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCUBA?src=hash] rescuing a distressed kayaker @ConeyIsland [https://twitter.com/ConeyIsland] today -Excellent work pic.twitter.com/6stbfxuonu [https://t.co/6stbfxuonu] — NYPD
Police & Fire
> Brooklyn **77-33-3286**3rd Alarm** 2220 Voorhies Ave pic.twitter.com/64cSxUxyzG [https://t.co/64cSxUxyzG] — NYC Fire Wire (@NYCFireWire) May 2, 2016 [https://twitter.com/NYCFireWire/status/727111384840962048] Five people were hospitalized, including one child and three firefighters, when a blaze consumed a three-story building on Voorhies Avenue early
Business
Photo by Heather Chin/Sunset Park Voice.Brooklyn’s Chinese American community now has its own ambulance company — the first on the East Coast — to address a growing need for paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) who speak Chinese dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, and Toisanese. Launched in early April,
Bensonhurst
A sign was posted by Helen Figueroa at Franchezka Unisex Salon. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The salon owned by a Borough Park woman who died in a well-publicized apartment building explosion [http://nyti.ms/1Iv1WKe] in Borough Park last year will close after a memorial service for
Central Brooklyn
Screenshot from video showing NYPD officers attempting to arrest Latisha Bellamy-Maldonado on the afternoon of March 25th.A grand jury voted this week not to indict a Flatbush woman arrested for assaulting a police officer, sources familiar with the case said. Latisha Bellamy-Maldonado, 27, who was arrested on the afternoon
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BP Adams leads mourners on Sunday. (Courtesy Eric Adams/Twitter.)A witness has cast doubt on the NYPD’s claim that a bicyclist killed [http://://bklyner.com/blog/2016/04/15/bicyclist-killed-riding-traffic-classon-avenue-say-cops/] earlier this month was riding against traffic. Lauren Davis, 34, was riding her bike when she was killed
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. * A thief drove off with car loaded with cash last week when the vehicle’s owner ran into his
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News
Image via NYPD.Nina Chen, a 13-year-old girl from Dyker Heights/Borough Park, has been missing since last Friday morning, April 22, and her family is begging anyone with information as to her whereabouts to contact the 68th Precinct Detective Squad. (Update on Thursday, April 28 at 11:51am: Nina
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Allen “Pike” Cooper is wanted for shooting and killing three people at the Ingersoll Houses in September 2015. (Photo via NYPD)Community leaders have rallied around the families of the residents of the Ingersoll Houses following the arrest [/blog/2016/04/25/suspect-ingersoll-triple-homicide-apprehended/] of the suspect in last fall’s
Police & Fire
(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a man who scrawled swastikas all over Marine Park Monday morning. The anti-Semitic vandal used a white marker to draw his hateful graffiti in multiple locations around 4:20am, according to the NYPD. Here are the places where cops say the
Police & Fire
Image via Google Maps.The week of April 19-25, the 72nd Precinct received reports of two robberies, two assaults, two grand larcenies, one auto theft, one car crash, one DWI, one forgery, one case of aggravated harassment, and one dead body. The following is a list detailing a few of
Central Brooklyn
Headquarters of the 66th Precinct at 16th Avenue and 59th Street. (Photo: Google Maps)[This story was updated on 4/26/16 at 7pm.] A longtime community affairs detective at the 66th Precinct, who was named in a federal corruption investigation, is trying to retire, the New York Daily News