Events
Avenue U Crash / Adam Balhetchet/ NYC 911 NEWS / BKLYNERUPDATE: Unfortunately, Frank Tornabene, the 90-year old husband of Joan Tornabene, has succumbed to the injuries he suffered in the crash that claimed the life of his wife Joan, 85, on May 1. Frank Tornabene was sent to the hospital with severe
Borough Park
A photo from National Night Out 2016. Daskal can be seen at the right, wearing the black vest. (Jole Carliner/Bklyner)BOROUGH PARK – Police have charged a safety officer from the Shomrim neighborhood watch group with the rape of a 15-year old girl, the Daily News reported. [http://www.nydailynews.
Central Brooklyn
(Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr) Over the course four years, a waitress at a Brooklyn diner used information from one of her regular patrons to write checks, open lines of credit and otherwise spend nearly half a million dollars on shopping, gambling trips and
Bay Ridge
An overpass on the Belt Parkway in Bay Ridge (Screenshot via Google Maps)BAY RIDGE – A dead body was found under a Belt Parkway overpass in Bay Ridge late Tuesday night, the NYPD has confirmed. Responding to a call of an unconscious person near Shore Road and Belt Parkway around
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK/PROSPECT PARK SOUTH – Details are still scarce about what exactly happened on a sunny afternoon on Stratford Road this past Monday, May 7 [/suspected-burglary-turns-deadly-in-prospect-park-south/]. What we do know is that neighbor Jeremy Safran, a psychotherapist [http://www.jeremysafran.com/]and a Professor of Psychology at the New School
Bed Stuy
The Thanksgiving Supermarket on 86th Street, where a young boy was nearly kidnapped on Monday (Screenshot via Google Maps)GRAVESEND – Police are looking for the man who tried to kidnap a 3-year old boy from right in front of his grandmother on Monday. The incident occurred just before 4:00
Central Brooklyn
Officer Veve with his wife, Esther (Photo: Twitter, NYPD 88th Precinct)As Brooklyn Police Officer Dalsh Veve was wheeled out of a New Jersey physical therapy center yesterday, he was applauded by 200 police officers as bagpipes played. His daughter, Darshee, was sitting on his lap and his wife, Esther,
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT PARK SOUTH – Neighbor Jeremy Safran, a psychotherapist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_D._Safran] and a Professor of Psychology at the New School [https://www.newschool.edu/directory/directoryDetail.aspx?id=4e6a-4d32-4e44-413d&FirstnameFilter=jeremY&LastnameFilter=safran&PageIndex=0] was killed earlier this evening in the
brownsville
Along with the shooting death and subsequent arrest of a suspect in Boreum Hill [/suspect-arrested-in-fatal-friday-night-shooting-in-boerum-hill/] over the weekend, three more tragic murders took place in the first full weekend of May, scattered across the borough. Looking up at 1655 Flatbush, where Troy Jones was found murdered over the weekend (Screenshot
bath beach
The Roosevelt Bank in Bed-Stuy was robbed over the weekend (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – Armed with a note, a man robbed a Bed-Stuy bank over the weekend, and now police are looking for their suspect. The incident occurred around 1:30 pm on Saturday, May 5, when the man
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – The NYPD made an arrest Sunday night in connection to the shooting death of a 39-year-old Fort Greene man as he walked on State Street Friday evening. 3rd Avenue & State Street, Boerum Hill (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)At approximately 8:30pm on May 4, police responded to
News
PARK SLOPE – The Staten Island woman who drove her car into a group of pedestrians and killed two young children in Park Slope in March was arraigned at Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday on a ten-count indictment charging her with second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment, assault, and other