Announcements
Photo: Google MapsSUNSET PARK – A three-alarm fire at 57th Street and 8th Avenue left five firefighters in the hospital on Monday, July 9. At 2:19 pm, the FDNY responded to a fire at 764 57th Street. According to the FDNY, 33 units and 138 firefighters fought the heavy blaze.
News
RED HOOK – The Gowanus Landmarking Coalition is offering a $300 reward for any information that leads to an arrest in the June 14 fire at the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse that the FDNY says may have been intentionally set [/fdny-deems-fire-at-historic-bowne-warehouse-suspicious/]. S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse, 595-611 Smith Street (Photo
Central Brooklyn
Outside 237 East 55th Street, where a 25-year old was shot to death last night (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – Last night, a man was shot to death on an East Flatbush street, a little before 10:00 pm, police confirmed. Responding to a 911 call of a man
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – The city ordered the removal of a parking lot outside the Bushwick laundromat where 4-year old Luz Gonzalez was killed in a hit-and-run [/bushwick-hit-and-run-kills-4-year-old-girl-injures-mother/] late last month. Families and community members demanding justice had rallied outside the laundromat for days after hearing that the driver in the fatal crash
Bushwick
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BUSHWICK – Police have made an arrest in the shooting death of William Fernandez [/weekend-gun-violence/], who was killed at Bushwick Avenue and Beaver Street last month. Yesterday, NYPD arrested David Hall, 46, a
Central Brooklyn
UPDATE (7/6/18): Police have released more details in the Crown Heights bodega shooting that took a man’s life in the early hours yesterday morning. The victim has been identified as Khadeem Anderson, 28, a Crown Heights resident. According to witnesses, Anderson was shot from behind and killed
Police & Fire
SHEEPSHEAD BAY – An 80-year-old motorist drove his 2018 Lexus into the storefront of the recently opened NetCost Market [/the-new-netcost-market-will-be-open-24-7/] located at 3100 Ocean Avenue Tuesday morning. The incident occurred at approximately 9:30am, an NYPD representative said. The male driver told responding officers that he mistakenly stepped on the accelerator
Borough Park
BOROUGH PARK/KENSINGTON – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced last week that 40-year-old Abel Antonio Pina Morocho of Borough Park was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for driving while intoxicated into a group of cyclists during last year’s Century Bike Tour [/greenpoint-cyclist-hit-century-bike-tour-dies/], killing one woman and
Crown Heights
A drive-by shooting aimed at a group of people outside 1655 Union Street last night claimed the life of one man (Screenshot via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS – One man is dead after a drive-by shooting aimed at a group of people in Crown Heights last night, police confirmed. According to
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Outside 162 21st Street in South Slope, where Jose Cardoso was killed in a car crash over the weekend (Screenshot via Google MapsSOUTH SLOPE – A pedestrian was killed Saturday night after a driver lost control while attempting to park his van on an industrial side street off of 4th Avenue,
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The home at 1666 East 49th Street that caught fire last night, claiming the life of a resident (Screenshot via Google Maps)FLATLANDS – Last night, a fire tore through a two-story home in Flatlands, leaving a woman dead from smoke inhalation. The FDNY received a call about the fire at
Bed Stuy
The shooting happened around 3:30 am outside Harvey’s, at 1639 Broadway (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – An early morning shooting outside a Bushwick pool hall left one man dead and sent another to the hospital on Saturday, police confirmed. The shooting happened around 3:30 am, outside of