fort greene
Image via NYPD.Some of you heard helicopters flying over the northwest corner of Fort Greene Park on Friday night (December 11) shortly after 8pm and wondered what was going on. Well, as we noted on Facebook, it was an NYPD copter deployed after shots were fired and police chased
Police & Fire
Source: mikey k/FlickrCops say a 29-year-old man died Friday night after he was shot several times in the head inside a Coney Island apartment building. Police say they arrived at the residence, located on the fourth floor of a building near West 21st Street and Surf Avenue, at 8pm
fort greene
Image via NYPD.Thirteen-year-old Alejandro Brown hasn’t been seen since 11:40pm on Friday inside of his family’s apartment at 333 Lafayette Avenue in Clinton Hill, where he was dressed in a gray hooded sweatshirt and carrying a gray backpack. He stands only five-feet-two-inches tall and weighs 120
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Bensonhurst
Source: NYPDPolice are looking for a Staten Island woman who got separated from her family by the crowds during a trip to see Dyker Heights’ famed Christmas displays [/the-locals-guide-to-dyker-heights-christmas-lights/] Saturday evening. Roxanne Avallone, 53, was last seen near 84th Street and 11th Avenue at around 8pm and is still missing
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Tom Magliery [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/345145225/in/photolist-wuXDK-4gr5XL-4nffsC-ayiQR-7aVEAa-dTBeaM-e3ukUW-iLgGhN-k2pFkp-7aVEzD-57KSaW-FN3By-fADU6L-ozh9EZ-oRK7hf-eSsobX-k2qiKB-k2qikZ-k2s5AY-jH8zWi-k2s4bU-eayuHr-mVr1W4-u3QhT-9m1hnR-mVqXNF-8pSgoM-9hK5yy-8Z3NVH-5htTYV-7hrWZQ-6vkDQm-8pVkPL-6vgt6a-6PfTK8-8poJHb-7KvvDn-FNuov-8pSiM4-4E7rjP-a54HYQ-jH87DR-6vLF68-3zMRMK-5iVPTA-AgmMBT-2eZMLH-8poEvo-BHoC7-njUUyS] In response to a series of tragic fires [/blog/crime/glenwood-road-fir
Central Brooklyn
Windsor Terrace resident Billy Yee died in October from injuries sustained after being shot in 1982, according to the Medical Examiner’s office, and officials are considering whether to rule the incident a homicide. Police found Yee around 2am on June 14, 1982 on Sands Street under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
Police & Fire
> Great work by the 61 Intel Sgt & Day Tour Anti Crime for getting another gun off our streets! #onelessgun [https://twitter.com/hashtag/onelessgun?src=hash] #teamwork [https://twitter.com/hashtag/teamwork?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/eY3ObXrvk5 [https://t.co/eY3ObXrvk5] — NYPD 61st Precinct (@NYPD61Pct) December 11,
Central Brooklyn
The FDNY responded to a crash on Coney Island Avenue near Ditmas Avenue around 10:30am on Thursday morning after an SUV slammed into another car in front of the McDonald’s at 880 Coney Island Avenue. The driver of a Ford Explorer swerved to enter the drive-thru and hit
fort greene
Image via NYPD.The week after Thanksgiving saw an almost 50% drop in overall crime from the week before (22 incidents) [/blog/2015/12/04/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-23-29/] and it was even the lowest in the past month (with 14 incidents from November 16-22 [/blog/2015/12/01/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-16-22/] and 19 from
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 Beac
Central Brooklyn
According to police, two suspects robbed the bodega at 564 Coney Island Avenue, on the corner of Beverley Road, in the 66th Precinct [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_066.shtml], Wednesday night. The suspects entered the store around 8:40pm, both carrying firearms, and took $55,
Bensonhurst
Popeye’s located at 6103 7th Avenue. (Source: Google Maps)A 68-year-old man from Gravesend was gunned down in Sunset Park this week. Yingguan Chen, of West 9th Street, was in front of a Popeye’s restaurant located 6103 7th Avenue on Monday, December 7, at 9:37pm, when bullets