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A five alarm fire raced through three 100+ year-old houses in Midwood, resulting in 13 injuries.A Pennsylvania man who allegedly torched a Brooklyn rabbi’s home and taking two others with it [/suspicious-early-morning-4-alarm-fire-destroys-three-century-old-midwood-homes/] , went before a judge Sunday night smiling after getting arrested for attempted murder and arson charges
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128 Lewis Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)BEDFORD STUYVESANT – Rasheed Bennett, 31, has died after being shot in the chest in the Eleanor Roosevelt Houses at 128 Lewis Ave. on Monday, June 17 at around 2:47 p.m. Bennett was coming out of the elevator in the lobby of
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Photo via Deutsch’s office.SHEEPSHEAD BAY – The words “Kill Arabs” were spray-painted on a B44 bus shelter on Avenue V and Nostrand Avenue this morning. According to Council Member Chaim Deutsch’s office, a constituent saw the hateful words as he was getting on the bus this morning and
Coney Island
CONEY ISLAND – A three-alarm fire raced through the ceilings and roofs of three homes in Coney Island early Monday morning, injuring two firefighters, neither seriously, fire officials said. Firefighters look up into ceiling trying to find where the fire had spread in the homes on West 19th Street. (Photo: Todd
Cobble Hill
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Community Board 2 (CB2) convened on Wednesday, June 12th, to discuss and vote on their new recommendation for the 275 Atlantic Avenue jail. The jail is part of a four-jail system proposed by the city, created in part to shrink and eventually close the Rikers Island Correctional Center.
Central Brooklyn
125 Kingston Avenue. vi Google streetview.CROWN HEIGHTS – Yesterday evening, June 12 at around 7:30 p.m., a 48-year-old man was shot and killed while inside Classic Deli Market at 125 Kingston Avenue. The man was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the neck and torso in the back
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BED STUY – In 2015, a livery cab driver was shot and killed inside his car by a man who attempted to rob him. Today, the defendant was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. In the early morning of June 29, 2015, 35-year-old Fawaz Naji, a man from Brownsville,
fire
A five-alarm fire raced through three 100+ year-old houses in Midwood Brooklyn early this morning, resulting in 13 injuries, though non-life threatening. The original fire started in 1494 East 17th Street at about 4:10 a.m. and spread quickly to two other houses of the same Queen Anne style.
North Western Brooklyn
PARK SLOPE/SUNSET PARK – The NYPD is requesting the public’s help in identifying the man seen in the photo and videos below in connection to four incidents of debris being thrown onto subway tracks in Brooklyn. Via NYPDThe first incident occurred at approximately 12:30am on Thursday, May 9
Bensonhurst
BENSONHURST – Francesca Mosomillio did a reading of Thessalonians 4:13-18—scripture that speaks of hope—at this year’s NYPD Brooklyn South Annual Memorial Mass at St. Athanasius Roman Catholic Church in Bensonhurst. Officers salute as families of cops killed in the line of duty file pass. Photo: Todd MaiselShe
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Supreme Court Liena Zagare/BklynerCANARSIE – A man has been charged with allegedly stealing $8,520 from three undocumented immigrants who trusted him to process their green card applications and work permits. According to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, three immigrants from St. Kitts and Jamaica met James Archibald through mutual
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Ave D and 105th Street. (Photo via Google Maps)CANARSIE – A 29-year-old man on an E-Bike is dead after a drunk driver collided with him Sunday night. On June 9th at about 10:37 p.m., 22-year-old Treasure Liggins was driving her 2007 Infiniti G35 heading eastbound on Avenue D