Education
Seven more people have been arrested in connection to a city-wide fraud that involved ripping off scores of heating oil customers, including Edward R. Murrow and James Madison high school, prosecutors announced Wednesday. “The defendants are charged with running a scheme to systematically steal heating oil from a Brooklyn terminal
Central Brooklyn
Screen shot of Compstat map showing location of robberies in the 70th Precinct in the last 28 days.Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area. On Tuesday, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website [https://compstat.nypdonline.org] which allows users to examine crime
Police & Fire
Photo provided by the NYPD.Less than a day after cops released a new photo [/new-surveillance-photo-gives-face-suspect-grabbed-14-year-old-girl/] of the man wanted for trying to lure a 14-year-old girl on her way home from school, authorities dropped the charges after the suspect turned himself into police, according to the NYPD. Cops say
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Image via NYPD.Have you seen Hilda Rivera? The 17-year-old has been missing since Monday afternoon, February 22, when she was last seen in the Lower East Side near Stanton and Forsyth Streets at around 2:30pm. She never came home to her family’s Adelphi Street apartment. Rivera stands
Bensonhurst
Here’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 daring thief broke in through back window of a home while the residents were still awake watching TV and their daughter
Police & Fire
Photo provided by the NYPD.Police are hoping a new surveillance photo will lead to the arrest of the man suspected of grabbing a 14-year-old girl last week [/14-year-old-girl-escapes-strangers-grasp-while-walking-home-from-school-cops-say/] while she walked home from school. Cops say the man shown in the photograph approached the girl last Tuesday on East
Central Brooklyn
The intersection of Church and Ocean Avenues, looking south down Ocean Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)Police now have a “person of interest” related to the shooting of a young man last week in the 70th Precinct. Police have identified and are searching for a suspect in the shooting of a
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A road rage incident turned violent Saturday morning, February 20, when a man in his 20s allegedly shot a 39-year-old man in the groin, according to multiple reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/man-39-shot-groin-road-rage-incident-brooklyn-article-1.2538906] and a police spokesperson. It was around 10am on Fulton Street near Washington Avenue
Health
The intersection at East 11th Street and Banner Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)A 29-year-old man found dead outside a building near the Belt Parkway this morning may have died of a drug overdose, according to authorities. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. However, cops say the man
Neighbors
Lauren Profeta. (Photo: Answer the Call)Sheepshead Bay native Lauren Profeta understands the daily perils faced by New York City’s first responders. Two of her three brothers are firefighters. The other is a police captain. Profeta was promoted this week to Director of Development for Answer the Call – The
Police & Fire
Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
Bensonhurst
St. Francis de Chantel Church, 1273 58th Street (Photo: Google Maps)A crazed sanitation worker was arrested Wednesday after he was seen chucking trash at a cross bearing the image of Jesus in Borough Park. Cops say Roman Protas, 38, was driving a street sweeper and wearing his sanitation uniform