Police & Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiHXed-kRM The hunt for a burglar who posed as an MTA construction worker to break into the D train’s 9th Avenue station in January [/police-fire/crook-steals-chainsaws-from-9th-ave-subway-station-video/] is heating up as perp struck a second time this week — at the same station! In both
Police & Fire
Images via Torres-Ruiz family.Two sisters disappeared from their family’s 52nd Street apartment some time overnight between Sunday, February 28 at 11pm and the next morning, say police and family members, who are hoping the girls are found safe soon. Kimberly and Alicia Torres-Ruiz, age 16 and 14, were
News
Photo by Heather ChinAfter a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. How did a booming real estate market create a deadly drug
Police & Fire
Juan Ramos, 67, was convicted of murder for stabbing a neighbor to death in 2013. (Photo via Brooklyn DA’s office.)A 67-year-old Sunset Park man has been convicted in the stabbing death of his 23-year-old neighbor — a father of two — and faces up to 25 years in prison for
history
Photo by Beyond My Ken [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Augustine's_Roman_Catholic_Church_122_Sixth_Avenue_Park_Slope_from_south.jpg] St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church [http://www.staugustineparkslope.org/] (116 6th Avenue at Sterling Place) and portions of Green-Wood Cemetery are one step closer
Central Brooklyn
The children sang, but so too did the electeds, all saluting Paul P. Mak, the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Chinese American Association [http://www.bca.net] (BCA), at the 2016 Sunset Park Chinese New Year’s celebration. Pak and the BCA have organized the event for the past 29
Business
Funeral Director Doris V. Amen and Betsy, her trusted 1978 S&S Superior Classic Cadillac Hearse.“I bet you don’t know what’s on the B-side of that 45.” Doris V. Amen, funeral director of Jurek – Park Slope Funeral Home [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jurek-Park-Slope-Funeral-Home/168081276541229] (728
Holidays
Photo by William AlatristeGung hay fat choy! Thousands celebrated the year of the monkey on Sunday, February 21, at Sunset Park’s annual Lunar New Year Parade on 8th Avenue, hosted by the Brooklyn Chinese-American Association [http://www.bca.net/eng/contact.html]. After an ear-splitting canon sound kicked off
Business
Practice Court at the Brooklyn Nets’ Hospital for Special Surgery Training Center. (Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Nets)It wasn’t Dorothy and Toto who were ascending the podium. But if they had, Dorothy surely would have looked down and said, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in New
Events
(Chinese New Year celebration on 8th Avenue, Brooklyn. Photo: Jole Carliner) Monkeys are smart, curious, innovative, and loveable, with an unruly temper and snotty attitude. This year the moon is in their house. Join the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration this Sunday, February 21 along Eighth Avenue, the borderline between
Business
Vendors Heleodora Vivar-flores and Polcarpo Cortes pleaded their case before CB 7. (Photo by Logan Frazier/Bensonhurst Bean)Sunset Park food truck vendors, who claim they are casualties of the city’s push against street business, pleaded their case before Sunset Park’s Community Board 7 [http://www.brooklyncb7.org/
Central Brooklyn
(Chinese New Year celebration on 8th Avenue, Brooklyn. Photo: Jole Carliner) Monkeys are smart, curious, innovative, and loveable, with an unruly temper and snotty attitude. This year the moon is in their house. Join the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration this Sunday, February 21st along Eighth Avenue, the borderline between