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The Zig Zag Records sign now lives in a Williamsburg warehouse. (Photo: Corey Kanterman [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153792626488330&set=gm.10153668708590801&type=3&theater] / Facebook)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have
Police & Fire
Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
Bensonhurst
Photo by Courtney SolomineCops in Coney Island will soon be getting some new tech to help keep a lid on gun violence. As part of his 2017 budget proposa [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/077-16/fact-sheet-mayor-de-blasio-releases-preliminary-budget-fiscal-year-2017] l released Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to expand the NYPD’s
Police & Fire
Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)A local transportation group accused police Thursday of ‘victim-blaming’ during their investigation of a hit-and-run that killed a bicyclist on Avenue U. The group, Transportation Alternatives [http://transalt.org/news/releases/8516], cited an article by the Daily News
Police & Fire
https://youtu.be/qZ60K_TxE6o Update [January 7, 1:35pm]: Police initially reported that one of the victims was 9 years old. They have since issued a correction stating that she is actually 79. Police are searching for a group of four teens who mugged several women in Brighton Beach
Police & Fire
An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)Police are searching for a truck driver who sped away after fatally striking a 54-year-old bicyclist on Avenue U Tuesday night. According to the NYPD, the driver was traveling west on Avenue U at 5pm when
Central Brooklyn
Members of the 66th Precinct and the Shomrim at December’s Community Council meeting. (Photo by Jole Carliner/Ditmas Park Corner)The 66th Precinct Community Council [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_066.shtml] is holding its monthly meeting on Thursday, January 21 at 7:30pm at
Police & Fire
Source: Silvercore Training via flickrThe 37-year-old man who was found behind a Coney Island housing project Sunday with a gunshot wound to the head has been linked to a local gang and his murder could be retribution for another killing the day before, police sources told the Daily News [http:
Police & Fire
(Photo: mikey k / flickr)A 37-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday night outside the Surfside Gardens Housing complex in Coney Island, police say. Cops say they received a call about a shooting at 9:17pm. When police arrived, they found a 37-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the
Central Brooklyn
A 71-year-old-man was hit by the driver of white Ford E-250 van around 7:20pm Thursday evening as he crossed Ocean Avenue at the corner of Beverley Road, according to the police. The van, which was heading southbound on Ocean Avenue and had a green light, hit the man as
Police & Fire
Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Bea
Police & Fire
Source: WikipediaThe number of pedestrians struck by vehicles in Sheepshead Bay and its surrounding neighborhoods fell by 30 percent in 2015, according to police. Speaking at the 61st Precinct Community Council meeting Wednesday, Captain Jason Hagestad, the station house’s executive officer, reported that 185 people were struck by cars