brownsville
WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking for the suspect who crept up and shot a man in the back earlier this week. The sneak attack came in the early hours of Monday, April 9, around 1:45 am. The suspect approached his 18-year old victim in the area near Humboldt Street and
canarsie
Looking north on Remsen Avenue towards the intersection with Church. Parker was struck by a car on Sunday while crossing Remsen mid-block. (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – After being hospitalized following a hit and run crash on Remsen Avenue on Sunday night, 65-year old Dorothy Parker of Canarsie has
Bed Stuy
The building on Madison Street where Halsey was killed (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – On Saturday, man was shot and killed outside his Bed-Stuy residence, police confirmed. Responding to an alert from the ShotSpotter system, which recognizes the sound of gunfire and alerts police, officers arrived at 406 Madison Street,
Announcements
Photo: ESPNBARCLAYS CENTER – Conor McGregor, a mixed martial arts fighter, was arrested on Thursday after allegedly throwing a dolly at a bus carrying Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighters at Barclays Center, which injured two people. His bail has been set at $50,000. According to the NYPD, McGregor has been
Central Brooklyn
Lenox Road in East Flatbush, where last week’s shooting assault took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – Police are looking for a suspect who fired a gun at the feet of another man on an East Flatbush street last week. Around 9:45 pm on Thursday, April 5,
Big Story
CROWN HEIGHTS – After Wednesday’s killing of 34-year old Saheed Vassell at the hands of the NYPD [/police-shooting-vassell/], crowds gathered at the corner of Utica Avenue and Montgomery Street to mourn the neighbor’s passing. State Senator Jesse Hamilton spoke at a vigil, starting at 4:40 pm, the time
Central Brooklyn
A photo of Saheed Vassell, who was shot and killed by the NYPD yesterday afternoon (Via Facebook)CROWN HEIGHTS – Yesterday afternoon, NYPD officers shot and killed Saheed Vassell, a Crown Heights man thought to be brandishing a gun. He was holding a metal pipe. According to NYPD Police Chief Terence
Bed Stuy
EAST NEW YORK – The NYPD is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the two men seen in the below photos and video in connection to a recent robbery. At approximately 3:10am on Monday, March 26, police say the two suspects approached a 25-year-old man in front of a
Gowanus
Gowanus Canal seen from the 9th Street Bridge (Photo: Nathan Haselby)GOWANUS – A phone call early Tuesday morning alerted police to a dead body floating in the Gowanus Canal, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed. Responding to the 911 call at 7:00 am on Tuesday, April 3, police discovered an unconscious
Announcements
PROSPECT HEIGHTS/PARK SLOPE – Residents of the 78th Precinct were introduced to their new Commanding Officer at last Tuesday’s Community Council meeting. Captain Jason Hagestad, a self-proclaimed “Brooklyn boy,” has lived in Bay Ridge his entire life and has served in several precincts across the borough. New Commanding Officer
Central Brooklyn
The KP Farm Market, where an employee was killed by a makeshift elevator on Monday (Screenshot via Google Maps)EAST FLATBUSH – A worker at a Nostrand Avenue farm market was killed yesterday when a makeshift hoist fell on him, police confirmed. The accident took place at the KP Farm Market,
Central Brooklyn
During the first weekend of March, three deaths occurred across Brooklyn [/march-weekend-deaths/]. Now, after a violent holiday weekend, the last weekend of the month is a tragic mirror to the first—three deaths in two days in Brooklyn neighborhoods closed out the month. The Great Indian Curry restaurant on Flatbush