Police & Fire
The Ocean Towers building on West 24th Street in Coney Island. (Source: Google Maps)A 17-year-old girl, who was beaten into a coma last week by a group of teenagers, died from her injuries Tuesday night, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/brooklyn-girl-17-brain-dead-beaten-group-teens-article-1.2589951] . Ta’Jae
Police & Fire
(Photo sent by reader Ed)Emergency responders are swarming around a four-story residential building on Ocean Avenue, between Avenue Y and Avenue Z, after a fire broke out there this afternoon. More than 50 firefighters responded to the building, located at 2950 Ocean Avenue, at 2:18pm, according to the
Police & Fire
24-year-old Joshua Colon was arrested in an incident on Monday which led to the death of local business owner Phil Dellegrazie. (Image via NYPD)Police have arrested the suspect who allegedly ran over and killed local business owner Phil Dellegrazie [/neighbors/local-business-owner-killed-vehicle-chasing-carjacker/] in a frantic car chase which took place
Police & Fire
Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)Police are asking for the public’s assistance locating a missing Sheepshead Bay man who was last seen at a building in Manhattan. Authorities say 21-year-old man, who lives on Ocean Avenue, near Avenue W, was last seen Monday
Bensonhurst
(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a Gravesend teenager who went missing Friday morning. Authorities say 17-year-old Dahlia Alkhodary was last seen just before 8am on Friday at her apartment located on East 4th Street near Avenue V. She is described as five feet, three inches tall
fort greene
Jazz musician Cecil Taylor (Photo via Andy New [https://www.flickr.com/photos/92523880@N00/2496006222/]/Flickr)The Long Island man who ripped off Fort Greene resident and jazz legend Cecil Taylor [/blog/2014/08/12/fort-greene-home-contractor-charged-with-stealing-nearly-500000-from-cecil-taylor/] was sentenced today. Noel Muir, 55, who stole almost $500,000 in prize
Police & Fire
(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a Gravesend teenager who went missing Friday morning. Authorities say 17-year-old Dahlia Alkhodary was last seen just before 8am on Friday at her apartment located on East 4th Street near Avenue V. She is described as five feet, three inches tall
Business
The scene at 4th Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Street after Phil Dellegrazie was killed. Police created a tented area to provide privacy for the deceased. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop) The owner of a local iron works business was fatally struck by a carjacker [/police-fire/cops-hunt-two-carjackers-killed-greenwood-heights-man-with-his-own-car/] after
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Image via NYPD.Surveillance video shows the horrifying moment that a man, clad in black, shoots a 15-year-old in both legs outside the Farragut Houses last Friday, April 1. It was 5:07pm at Sands Street and Navy Street — still daylight hours and right outside the gate to the Brooklyn
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Image via New York Daily News [http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/donald-trump-loving-nyc-sanitation-workers-fight-driver-article-1.2568005] .The two Sanitation Department workers who were caught on video blocking traffic and then threatening a complaining driver with deportation and Donald Trump [/blog/2016/03/18/city-sanitation-workers-face-scrutiny-trash-talk-deportation-threats-clinton-hill/] are back on the job after a five-day suspension.
Central Brooklyn
The Blink Gym is located near the corner of Linden Boulevard and Flatbush Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)A Blink Gym, near the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Linden Boulevard, was burglarized early Saturday morning, police confirmed. Two robbers entered the gym through the rear of the building around 5am on
Police & Fire
Image via Google Maps.It was a tragic end to one 63-year-old Greenwood Heights man’s life as he was first carjacked and then fatally slammed by his own car as the thieves attempted to make a getaway. Police are now searching for two suspects — whose descriptions have not yet