fort greene
Calling all concerned citizens: 12-year-old Mahogany Walls has not been seen since before leaving for school at 7:30am on Friday, March 4, said her family to police. Walls was last in her family’s home on Putnam Street between Downing Street and Irving Place on the Clinton Hill-Bed-Stuy border.
Police & Fire
An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)A woman had to be taken to the hospital Friday morning after being dragged by a black sedan near Kings Highway and East 15th Street, DNAinfo reports [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160304/sheepshead-bay/female-pedestrian-hit-by-vehicle-sheepshead-bay-fdny-says] . The
Central Brooklyn
531 East 26th Street, near Foster Avenue, where 26-year-old Dwight Brathwaite was stabbed to death in December, 2013. (Photo: Google Maps)A young Flatbush man who believed a stranger was flirting with his girlfriend, and then stabbed the individual to death, has been convicted two years after the crime. Brooklyn
Bensonhurst
Source: Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeThe serial killer dubbed “Son of Sal” by the media — who was known to lurk and dance in Bensonhurst [/serial-killer-who-lurked-and-danced-in-bensonhurst-convicted-on/#.VtngxpMrKSM] — will spend the rest of his years behind bars. Salvator Perrone, 67, a Staten Island salesman who was convicted for the 2012 murders [/serial-killer-who-lurked-and-danced-in-bensonhurst-convicted-on/
Announcements
NYPD 66 Precinct Council, from left: Captain Kenneth M. Quick; Ari Weiss, Sergeant at Arms; Marc Katz, President; Kazi Hossain, Treasurer; Mian M Fayyaz. (Photo: Jole Carliner)The NYPD’s 66th Precinct Community Council met last Thursday, February 25th, at the Royal Community Care Center on Coney Island Avenue to
Police & Fire
(Photo provided by the NYPD)Cops are searching for a pickpocket who swiped a woman’s purse earlier this year and used her stolen credit card to buy cigarettes at a corner store on Sheepshead Bay Road. The thief allegedly grabbed a 31-year-old woman’s purse on January 11 while
fort greene
BY SARAH CREAN AND HEATHER CHIN Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area. Last week, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website [https://compstat.nypdonline.org/] which allows users to examine crime statistics up to the most recent week, identify crime locations by street
Police & Fire
https://youtu.be/p4l_15k22l0 Cops are asking for the pubic’s assistance identifying two brazen crooks who rolled up to a neighbor’s driveway last month and loaded a snowblower in the back of a pickup truck. A surveillance video released by the NYPD shows one of the bandits,
Bensonhurst
https://youtu.be/9rygkKJSLLo A 70-year-old man is fighting for his life after being struck in a hit-and-run in Bensonhurst Wednesday. The senior was thrown from his motorized scooter into a pile of debris at the corner of 85th Street and 25th Avenue at approximately 3:45pm, police said. Cops
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Education
https://youtu.be/PwaasiPArFg Less than a week after a father’s arrest scandalized P.S. 193 [/arrest-p-s-193-spurs-calls-principals-removal/], another educator threatened to call police on a parent — this time for videotaping a meeting with two city councilmen. More than 200 people, including children, packed the elementary school’s auditorium Tuesday
Central Brooklyn
905 Winthrop Street. IS 232 is located here, as well as the Middle School of Marketing & Legal Studies. (Photo: Google Maps)UPDATE: Annalise Thomos has been located and is safe. [3/3/16, 10:10am.] ******************************************* The NYPD is seeking the public’s help in locating a 12-year-old girl reported
Police & Fire
Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein holding petitions opposing the Bragg Street halfway house. (Photo provided by Weinstein’s office)Local lawmakers announced Tuesday that they had collected more than 1,000 of signatures opposing a proposed halfway house on Bragg Street. Community leaders were blindsided in December [/local-pols-outraged-over-planned-halfway-house-near-schools-senior-centers/] when they received a