Announcements
BOROUGH HALL – In an effort to raise awareness and help end the stigma for seeking help for cop’s mental health, Borough President Eric Adams released a very powerful, vulnerable video this morning. The 2:30-minute video features Adams, a former NYPD cop, sitting in a dark room. He picks
News
PARK SLOPE – Dorothy Bruns, the 44-year-old Staten Island woman who killed two young children in Park Slope after driving her car into a group of pedestrians, was found dead of an apparent suicide Tuesday afternoon, the New York Post [https://nypost.com/2018/11/06/driver-charged-with-running-over-kids-including-broadway-stars-child-is-dead-in-apparent-suicide/] reports. Scene following the
Coney Island
Police and firefighters responded to the suicide shortly after 9:00 am at the Ocean Parkway Q platform (Photo courtesy of Daniel Gold)CONEY ISLAND – A man was killed after jumping in front of a northbound Q train this morning at the Ocean Parkway Station, police confirmed. Eyewitnesses told NYPD
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – An off-duty NYPD officer committed suicide yesterday in Bushwick, possibly after a domestic dispute. Police responded to a 911 call to assist a police officer at 12:37 pm on Monday, February 26. The officer in question was found on the floor of her Troutman Street residence with a
Bed Stuy
Over the weekend, even as Brooklynites celebrated Chinese New Year and took off work for President’s day, a series of deaths struck across the borough as the tragic long weekend claimed at least four lives. A man was found dead in the passenger seat of a car in front
northern brooklyn
This morning, during early rush hour, police officers talked a man out of jumping off the Manhattan bridge. NYPD Emergency Service Unit and Aviation Unit responded to a 911 call at 7:20 am of a man threatening to jump from the Manhattan-bound side of the lower level of the
North Western Brooklyn
Via NYPDThe body of a Clinton Hill woman who was reported missing last week was found floating in Spuyten Duyvil Creek near West 218 Street in Manhattan, the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/body-woman-found-creek-brooklyn-singer-article-1.3376110] reports. Twenty-four-year-old Lael Feldman was last seen [/help-police-find-missing-clinton-hill-woman/] at her
Central Brooklyn
> Nostrand Ave and Lincoln Rd in Brooklyn. Witnesses say woman was hit by a bus. pic.twitter.com/D3k2TiIq7e [https://t.co/D3k2TiIq7e] — William Turton (@WilliamTurton) July 8, 2017 [https://twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/883765894069051392] A pedestrian was killed on Nostrand Avenue after colliding with an MTA Bus on
North Western Brooklyn
Photo by nadream70 via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BREeOLVD2xa/?taken-at=229160794]A 20-year-old Brooklyn man killed himself early this morning at the Smith-Ninth Street subway station, police say. The New York Post [http://nypost.com/2017/03/08/man-decapitates-himself-on-subway-tracks/] reports, Rubin Antonio Rodriguez set his head down on
Central Brooklyn
Officer Mike Smith (Photo obtained by BKLYNER)It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of 70th Precinct Police Officer Michael Smith. [Update – Funeral information: The wake will be held at Duffy’s Funeral Home on 3/9 & 3/10, 2pm–5pm & 7pm–9pm. The funeral
Police & Fire
Photo by Sheepshead BitesA Sheepshead Bay woman who her neighbors said suffered from depression ended her own life by jumping from the top of her apartment building, landing on top of the parking garage below, according to police. The tragic suicide took place at a seven-story apartment building on Nostrand
Neighbors
(Photo via Facebook)Community and family members are mourning the tragic death of a 28-year-old Sheepshead Bay woman and Brooklyn College graduate this week. A seven-day shiva memorial service for Rebecca Wasserstrum, who city officials confirmed succumbed to injuries sustained from a plunge [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-woman-takes-death-leap-george-washington-bridge-article-1.2683053]
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Facebook)Community and family members are mourning the tragic death of a 28-year-old Midwood woman and Brooklyn College graduate this week. A seven-day shiva memorial service for Rebecca Wasserstrum, who city officials confirmed succumbed to injuries sustained from a plunge [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-woman-takes-death-leap-george-washington-bridge-article-1.2683053] off
News
Former 78th Precinct C.O. Michael Ameri [left] with Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC’s First Lady Chirlane McCray at the 2014 Pride Parade in Park Slope. (Photo by Tom Prendergast)A former commanding officer for Park Slope’s 78th Precinct has been found dead of an apparently self-inflicted
Police & Fire
Photo by Erica Sherman.Two men leapt to their deaths Friday from an elevated garage beside the Kings Plaza Shopping Center, the Daily News reports [http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/men-dead-jumping-elevated-garage-brooklyn-article-1.2456080] . The apparent suicides occurred hours apart and were unrelated, cops told the newspaper. The first man, who
13th ave
Photo via Puello Fund [https://www.gofundme.com/puellofund]/GoFundMeA fundraising page [https://www.gofundme.com/puellofund] has been set up to help the family of a beloved mom killed in the deadly explosion [/1-dead-1-missing-in-borough-park-building-explosion-video/#.VhUo72RViko] that tore through a Borough Park building on Saturday, October 3. Ligia Puello, 64,