brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, just before 8 pm, a man entered a Metro PCS at 716 Rockaway Avenue, asked to use the phone, pulled out a gun and demanded property, the police inform us. https://bklyner.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/674-20-73PCT-ROBBERY-video-.mp4 The
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Carmen Cruz leads a vigil for her son, Erick Díaz-Cruz, who was shot in the cheek by ICE agents in front of his family’s Gravesend, Brooklyn home, Feb. 16, 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Claudia Irizarry Aponte, originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/02/
Announcements
The site of a proposed NYC Ferry site in Coney Island Creek across from Kaiser Park in Brooklyn, on Feb. 11, 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Clifford Michel, for THE CITY. Originally posted on February 11, by THE CITY. Standing between Coney Island and a planned NYC Ferry dock:
Central Brooklyn
Clarendon and Flatbush, Liena Zagare/BklynerUPDATED: On Monday, February 10, a New York State judge issued a temporary restraining order [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/nyregion/nyc-broker-fees.html], so the brokers can collect fees until at least the March 13 hearing. Renters can no longer be charged brokers
Central Brooklyn
A recent video circulating on twitter shows an NYPD officer shoving a high school student on her way home from the Avenue M station on the Q line. The incident took place last Tuesday, February 4, between 3:30 pm and 4:00 pm, says Anthony Beckford of Black Lives
gravesend
GRAVESEND — An eldery man was found dead on Friday night at the Marlboro Houses NYCHA complex in Gravesend. On Friday, February 7, just after 11 p.m., police responded to a 911 call of an unconscious man inside of an apartment at the Marlboro Houses NYCHA complex at 2331 West
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GRAVESEND — Yesterday morning, Eric Diaz, 26, of West 12th Street, was shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer during [/ice-shoots-man-in-gravesend-in-broad-daylight-protest-at-maimonides-hospital/] the detainment of Gaspar Avendano-Hernandez, 33, who ICE stated had been already once removed from the country, and was an illegal alien from Mexico. ICE officers
gravesend
GRAVESEND/BORO PARK – This morning a man on West 12th Street in Gravesend was shot in his face by ICE Agents attempting to arrest his mother’s boyfriend whom they were looking to deport. ICE was after neighbor Gaspar Avendano-Hernandez, 33, who they say had been already once removed from
bath beach
By Clifford Michael, THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/02/bail-law-fuels-gop-challenge-to-reformer-in-swing-district.html] . A year after State Sen. Andrew Gounardes beat GOP stalwart Marty Golden, Brooklyn Republicans are weighing challenges against the freshman Democrat — with a rallying cry of undoing bail reform. Gounardes, 36, beat the longtime state senator by 1,
Central Brooklyn
A B35 bus. Ben Brachfeld/BklynerBROOKLYN — Back in October, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) began to study Brooklyn’s bus network in preparation for a [https://new.mta.info/brooklynbusredesign]redesign and hosted 10 community open houses across the borough [/tell-the-mta-what-you-hate-about-your-brooklyn-bus-route-this-fall/] to solicit input on which routes to fix and
brighton beach
Suspect. Courtesy of NYPD.BRIGHTON BEACH — A man broke into multiple Brighton Beach homes on Thursday, but did not steal any property. On Thursday, January 30, there were three incidents of a man breaking into apartments in Brighton Beach. He gained entry by damaging the door locks and forcing the
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Suspect. Courtesy of NYPD.SHEEPSHEAD BAY — A young boy’s phone was stolen on the street in Sheepshead Bay. On Saturday, January 25, around 6 p.m., in the rear of Coyle Street nearby Avenue U, a 12-year-old boy was walking home from a bus stop, with his iPhone X