police and fire
Over a dozen alleged members of a Flatbush-based street gang have been charged in an 81-count indictment that includes charges related to 11 shootings, the Brooklyn District Attorney (DA) announced today. The 14 alleged members of the “Babiiez” street gang are facing charges that include conspiracy to commit murder, weapons
Announcements
At a march against gun violence in 2018. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – Violence in the borough has increased compared to last year. A one-year-old was murdered at a cookout in July. A 20-year-old tourist was killed by a stray bullet over the weekend. Residents have had enough. Throughout NYC,
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Flickr Creative CommonsBROOKLYN – This was another weekend with shootings and deaths. In four separate shootings across the borough, five people died, including a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old. On Friday, July 24, around 5:30 p.m., 39-year-old Ancil Blackman was shot in the face in front of a church
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS—The NYPD has sent dozens of additional police officers to a pocket of Brooklyn that in recent months has seen an increase in shootings and homicides, a department official said Monday. NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, First Deputy Police Commissioner Benjamin Tucker, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and
Central Brooklyn
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill hold a media availability on crime statistics at One Police Plaza on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeCROWN HEIGHTS—Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that the city will be “very aggressive” in response to an uptick
Announcements
As 2017 winds to a close this weekend, it will go down as the safest year on record, part of a historic decrease in crime across New York City. Today, Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez released a statement outlining the finer points of 2017’s crime reductions—especially the lowest
Central Brooklyn
> Just some of the thousands of officers up tonight making a safe, celebratory #JOuvert [https://twitter.com/hashtag/JOuvert?src=hash] in Brooklyn. #WeAreJOuvert [https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreJOuvert?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/NotGDAMEMi [https://t.co/NotGDAMEMi] — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) September 5, 2016 [https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/
fort greene
Who doesn’t love a hammock? (Courtesy Flickr/Missy S. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/listenmissy/467502759/in/photolist-Hj5hp-afz7CQ-a5WjNU-6ixUQx-fme5Ke-2zf6Kc-9L2ttb-fadoLu-6NygiF-vJjDnR-uMsEJa-w5amqS-6Nygca-6NCrPW-6Nyg6F-8mGBV8-wh2mzV-2yT5D6-a3tTzW-8jCeD6-9KYzx6-8mGDwD-wYRZEb-a3cmZD-v1KBRN-hBGiq-9KYwtx-9L2wdu-a3fdMd-hzT5c-a3ckmK-a3qXiP-a3tN43-9L2eqC-a3co2k-9KYB2B-a3tQZQ-8xEETz-w5ajHJ-a3fbWo-oyEpjY-c4pGNQ-hzTy4-hxCL9-9KYsfM-a3qWDk-yC5DtB-8jCf3P-xZk9m2-w5jbGp] )The weather seems to have finally
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Central Brooklyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzZC4NxC91Y&feature=youtu.be Video depicting July 13, 2015 shooting at 866 Coney Island Avenue. (Courtesy: Brooklyn District Attorney) A gang which terrorized [/blog/crime/two-men-shot-at-862-coney-island-avenue-monday-night/] parts of Brooklyn, especially greater Flatbush, with gun violence has been the subject of a massive police
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> Sounding off on one of the most ridiculous anti-gun schemes introduced in some time: https://t.co/nDt77l6OuQ pic.twitter.com/JI86OQ5HI0 [https://t.co/JI86OQ5HI0] — Americas1stFreedom (@NRAA1F) January 4, 2016 [https://twitter.com/NRAA1F/status/684029853054570496] After an NRA-sponsored publication tweeted a photo of state Senator Roxanne Persaud
fort greene
Image via The Trace.With the proliferation of shootings — some fatal, some not — in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this year, it doesn’t really come as a surprise to see so many red, yellow, and green arrows on this map [http://www.thetrace.org/2015/12/gun-deaths-interactive-map-2015/] of the
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Image via NYPD.Some of you heard helicopters flying over the northwest corner of Fort Greene Park on Friday night (December 11) shortly after 8pm and wondered what was going on. Well, as we noted on Facebook, it was an NYPD copter deployed after shots were fired and police chased
COuncilmember Laurie Cumbo
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.In the wake of the evening rush-hour shooting death of 16-year-old Armani Hankins [/blog/2015/10/27/17-year-old-killed-by-bullet-to-the-head-in-rush-hour-shootout-at-flatbush-and-dekalb-avenues/] this past Monday, October 26, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Councilmember Laurie Cumbo have issued a call for collaboration between the state, city, and community groups.
71st Precinct
Two men and one woman were wounded when gunfire broke out on Parkside Court, near Parkside Avenue, around 2am Saturday morning — one of a series of shootings that occurred during a particularly violent weekend [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/3-people-die-19-wounded-gunshots-ring-city-article-1.2312711] in Brooklyn, and the city, the NYPD said.
brighton beach
The lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where the incident occurred. Source: Waldorf Astoria Hotel [http://www.waldorfnewyork.com/gallery/photos/]A Mill Basin man fired off a shot during cocktail hour [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/nyregion/wedding-guest-who-discharged-gun-at-waldorf-astoria-faces-charges.html] at a wedding in Manhattan’s prestigious Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
3301 nostrand ave
The man who opened fire on police officers in his Nostrand Avenue apartment [/four-cops-shot-suspect-in-critical-after-standoff-on-nostrand-avenue/] – wounding three of them – was convicted last week, and now faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Nakon Foxworth, 36, was found guilty on April 1 of two counts of aggravated assault upon a police