Central Brooklyn
Nostrand Discount 99 & Up at 1705 Nostrand Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)A masked robber, who held a female shopper at gunpoint and made off with several thousand dollars in Flatbush this weekend, is being sought by police. The 64-year-old woman was forced to stand with a gun to her
fort greene
Image via NYPD.Police have arrested three out of the four teens captured on surveillance video allegedly attacking a 50-year-old mailman last week [/blog/2016/02/04/assault-inside-fort-greene-deli-four-suspects/] at the Genuine Deli at 700 Fulton Street in Fort Greene and they are all young teens. Joshua Ruiz, 14, Keeshawn Ruan,
Bensonhurst
Gcin1987 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYPD_Ford_Police_Interceptor_2013.jpg#mediaviewer/File:NYPD_Ford_Police_Interceptor_2013.jpg] via Wikimedia Commons.With the help of technology, police caught up with two young thieves traveling on an MTA bus Saturday as they tried to flee the scene of
Central Brooklyn
Entrance to Church Avenue B/Q stop at Saint Paul’s Place and Caton Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)An attack on a 44-year-old white man at an area subway station over the weekend is being classified as a hate crime, according to authorities. The assault, which occurred at roughly 9:
Bensonhurst
IS 220, 4812 9th Avenue (Source: Google Maps)Cops are searching for a creep who groped a middle schooler walking to IS 220 John J. Pershing [http://parent-portal.pershing220.org/] (4812 9th Avenue) Friday morning. After he approached the 13-year-old girl and asked her for directions, the suspect touched her
Police & Fire
Gcin1987 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYPD_Ford_Police_Interceptor_2013.jpg#mediaviewer/File:NYPD_Ford_Police_Interceptor_2013.jpg] via Wikimedia Commons.Police caught up with two young thieves traveling on an MTA bus Saturday by using a Find My iPhone app to track the location of a
Arts & Culture
The cast of “To Protect, Serve, and Understand.” (Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus)The group of 14 adults stand in the middle of the audience-level stage, looking outwards and towards a row of NYPD dress hats lined up in a semicircle around them. Rewind a few moments and
News
(Photo provided by the NYPD)Cops are after a man who snuck through an open window last week and snapped up valuables from a Shore Parkway apartment. Police say the brazen criminal climbed into the apartment during the the middle of the afternoon on January 28. He grabbed several rings
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.
Central Brooklyn
Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)Kensington’s Pakistani community [/photos/thousands-of-people-celebrate-pakistans-independence-day-at-brooklyn-mela-on-coney-island-avenue/#.VrO7yDYrJ8c] is taking a leading role in keeping the area safe. A civilian patrol, created last summer to protect the Little Pakistan commercial district along Coney Island Avenue following a series of armed robberies in 2014, reports that
Police & Fire
Police arrested a 28-year-old man Wednesday who allegedly assisted teenager Destiny Garcia in the grisly murder [/15-year-old-girl-taken-into-custody-after-cops-find-two-bullet-riddled-bodies-at-the-sheepshead-bay-houses/] her mother and mother’s boyfriend in the Sheepshead Bay Houses. Authorities charged Jerry Maisonett, of Sunset Park, with two counts of murder and four counts of criminal possession of a weapon, according
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Bensonhurst
The life of a mailman is hard enough. Rain or shine, postal workers are out there, lugging around that bag of mail, marching up to strangers’ homes to bring them their packages. Occasionally these encounters go awry, like yesterday, at 11am, when a Dyker Heights woman and her dog attacked