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Steven H. Pollard died in the line of duty on Monday, January 7, 2019. (Photo credit: FDNY)MILL BASIN — Firefighter Steven H. Pollard died in the line of duty Sunday night en route to rescue victims of a 2-car crash along the Belt Parkway. He was 30. Pollard and other
Announcements
CONEY ISLAND – A person was shot inside a NYCHA building this morning and police are still searching for the suspects. According to the cops, a 49-year-old man was shot once in the leg after a dispute at 2970 West 27th Street at 2:30 a.m. He was taken to
Animals
The Williamsburg Bridge. (Photo: Paul Stremple)WILLIAMSBURG – Trains were delayed for over two hours last night after a dog was found roaming the subway tracks over the Williamsburg Bridge. At approximately 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night, the MTA tweeted “Metropolitan Av-bound M trains and Jamaica-bound J trains are running
Bushwick
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking for a suspect wanted for the attempted rape of a 26-year old woman in a Williamsburg apartment building yesterday. Around 5:30 am on Tuesday, January 1, the suspect approached the woman on the first-floor landing of an apartment building near Havermeyer and
brighton beach
The tracks of the Sheepshead Bay station in southern Brooklyn. A suspected thief was struck by a train while evading authorities yesterday (Screenshot via Google Maps)SHEEPSHEAD BAY – A fleeing thief was struck by a Q train yesterday afternoon as he tried to evade pursuit, police said. Around 3:30
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] CYPRESS HILLS – Last month, a verbal confrontation ended in a shooting during the early hours at a Dominican restaurant in Cypress Hills. Around 4:15 am on Monday, November 26, police said
Central Brooklyn
Two-alarm fire at 220 Montgomery St. in Ebbets Field Building complex.CROWN HEIGHTS – Three people were injured on Wednesday after a fire scorched an apartment in the Ebbets Field apartment complex. New York City Fire Department responded to a call at 12:06 pm at 220 Montgomery St. Ebbets Field
Bed Stuy
SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police have arrested and charged a Staten Island man in the death of Elina Sokolov, 45, who was killed while crossing Nostrand Avenue at Emmons in October. [/two-traffic-fatalities-and-one-arrest-on-thursday/] Nicholas Didio, 57, was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care, police said.
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(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)BATH BEACH – A Staten Island man has been arrested and charged in the road rage killing of Faizal Coto, [/bath-beach-deaths/] an FDNY firefighter and aspiring musician. Yesterday, the NYPD announced Joseph Desmond, 29, had been charged with murder after the Bay Parkway altercation on Sunday, December 9.
Business
DOWNTOWN – Downtown Brooklyn will be economically productive as well as safe this holiday season, promised Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at a press conference at Borough Hall on Monday afternoon. Following a series of shootings in the area – one of them fatal – public officials and business leaders have begun coordinating
East New York
A fire broke out last night on one of the upper floors in East New York’s Boulevard Houses on Linden Boulevard (Photo via PropertyShark)EAST NEW YORK – Just after midnight on Tuesday, December 18, a fire broke out on the 12th floor of a NYCHA high-rise in East New
Carroll Gardens
This morning, Borough President Eric Adams and Councilmember Mark Treyger arrived at the corner of West 2nd Street and Avenue Y to call on the city to improve street safety at the intersection where a local woman was killed yesterday in a hit-and-run collision. Francine LaBarbara, 57, was walking home