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Image via NYScanner on Twitter [https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/673653007054209024].A 30-year-old Brooklyn Heights woman tragically lost her life early Sunday night in a car crash outside Not Ray’s Pizza on Fulton Street off South Portland Avenue, and the 39-year-old man who was behind the wheel has been
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Image via NYPD.Fourteen-year-old Mercedes Cameron has not been seen since leaving home for school on Friday, December 4 at around 7:40am and her family and police are hoping someone has seen her. Mercedes was last seen on Washington Avenue between Gates Avenue and Fulton Street. She stands five-feet-two-inches
Events
Members of the Pipes & Drums of the Emerald Society play the Be Proud Foundation’s police appreciation luncheon. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)With the country still reeling from a horrific shooting in California this week, local politicians and community leaders paid tribute to police heroism at the Be
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.
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Image via NYPD.We see-sawed back up in reported crimes Thanksgiving week compared to the week prior, with 22 total incidents in major crime categories, compared to last week’s 14 [/blog/2015/12/01/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-16-22/] and the previous week’s 19 [/blog/2015/11/20/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-november-9-15-reduced-crime/]. This was also
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Image via NYPD.Surveillance images have been released by the NYPD of a suspect in the knife assault [/blog/2015/12/03/blood-splatter-victim-identified-playwright-david-henry-hwang-is-recuperating-after-seemingly-random-slashing/] on Fort Greene resident and prominent Broadway playwright David Henry Hwang. Seen above and in the Wanted poster below, the suspect is shown crossing the street in
Police & Fire
Photo by Erica ShermanPolice are investigating a possible hate crime at Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’ district office where some anti-Russian graffiti was found after Thanksgiving weekend, the news site JP Updates reports [http://jpupdates.com/2015/12/01/assemblyman-cymbrowitz-office-vandalized-with-anti-russian-graffiti/] . The vandalism was reported Monday afternoon when staffers discovered that a hammer
News
9th Street Vision Center at 332 9th Street. (Image via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/place/9+street+vision+center/@40.6688591,-73.9856568,3a,30y,210.31h,87.39t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sssnKWyn6O4S8HpxGRdSkKg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DssnKWyn6O4S8HpxGRdSkKg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanA man was beat up and taunted with anti-semitic remarks in Borough Park Wednesday. The 21-year-old victim, who is of Bukharan Jewish descent, was walking from the D train’s New Utrecht Avenue station near 43rd Street at 3:30pm, when the perpetrator shouted at him “slow
Bensonhurst
Source: NYPDCops are trying to track down a suspect who attacked a man on the Dyker Heights/Bay Ridge border, leaving him with a broken hip. The suspect, described as a white male 40s or 50s with wavy brown hair, pushed a 65-year-old male victim causing the victim to fall
Police & Fire
(Photos provided by the NYPD)Cops are searching for three men wanted for an armed robbery last month at the 7-Eleven on Nostrand Avenue near Avenue Y. Police say the suspects entered the store just before 4am on Thursday, November 19. One of the robbers, a black man wearing a
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanA man was beat up and taunted with anti-semitic remarks in Borough Park Wednesday. The 21-year-old victim, who is of Bukharan Jewish descent, was walking from the D train’s New Utrecht Avenue station near 43rd Street at 3:30pm, when the perpetrator shouted at him “slow