Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Tuesday that charges against Jazmine Headley have been dropped. Headley is the 23-year-old mother whose one-year-old son was forcibly torn out of her arms by police officers [/video-nypd-violently-yanks-1-year-old-from-mother-at-snap-office/] at a social services office last Friday, December 7. Human Resources Administration Office,
Bed Stuy
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DUMBO – After an assault on the F train, police have released photos of the suspect they’re searching for, hoping the public can help track him down. Around 4:00 pm on
Carroll Gardens
Outside 9 Douglas Street, where a traffic collision killed a member of a film crew (Screenshot via Google Maps)CARROLL GARDENS – A 63-year-old man was hit and killed by a driver in Carroll Gardens early this morning as he helped prepare for a film shoot, police confirmed. The victim, Pedro
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – Two young girls were tragically killed during a visit to their grandfather in Bushwick when a fire broke out in the man’s apartment while they slept. The blaze broke out in Vincente Gomez’s apartment on Schaefer Street just before 11:00 pm on Saturday, December 8, officials
bath beach
In Bath Beach, two homicides claimed the lives of two men in on Sunday, including an FDNY firefighter. In the early hours of Sunday, December 9, police said Faizal Coto, 33, was involved in a possible road-rage confrontation that ended in his death. Responding to a 911 call of a
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – A video showing NYPD officers forcibly tearing a one-year-old child out of the arms of his mother [https://www.facebook.com/nyashia.ferguson/videos/2165023130216850/] during a physical altercation at the Human Resources Administration/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) office at 275 Bergen Street last Friday, December 7,
Bushwick
DOWNTOWN – A 14-year-old boy was robbed while changing trains in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station last week and police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the culprit. The robbery occurred around 10:40 am on Thursday, November 29, police said. The victim was transferring from the A
Bed Stuy
A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)As discussions swirl about the possible legalization of marijuana and what it could mean for local residents [/espinal-marijuana-tax/], the Brooklyn District Attorney has announced two events to help Brooklynites erase past low-level marijuana convictions. Next
hate crimes
UPDATE (12/5/18): Police have announced that a suspect in the attack on a Jewish man last week has been arrested on charges of committing a hate crime. Enrique Gerena, 32, was arrested by NYPD for third-degree assault as a hate crime for sucker-punching a 33-year-old man on Throop
Bed Stuy
The corner of Marcus Garvey and Pulaski, near where one of yesterday’s shootings took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)Yesterday, two fatal shootings in Bed-Stuy claimed the lives of two men a few blocks apart, just after the NYPD announced another historic drop in overall homicide rates. The first
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] PARK SLOPE – A homeless woman was stabbed in the torso at the 15th Street and Prospect Park subway station early yesterday morning, police said. Around 5:00 am on Tuesday, December 4,
News
A FedEx truck had its windows smashed after a road rage brawl between employees and mourners outside a funeral (Via Loudlabs NYC)SUNSET PARK – A brawl erupted in the streets of Sunset Park yesterday when a FedEx driver struck a congregant leaving a mosque after a funeral. The fight broke