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Park Slope Chase Bank Vandalized With ‘Fuck 12’ & ‘BLM’

Photo via Jessie ChildsPARK SLOPE – A Chase Bank location was graffitied with red paint and a few messages over the weekend. It has since been cleaned up. Cops tell us the graffiti was reported on Sunday, October 4 at around 12:45 a.m. at 127 Seventh Avenue. According to

Business

Rusty Nail Vandalized With “Stay Close” Graffiti

When the manager at Rusty Nail [http://rustynailbrooklyn.com], a recently-opened bar located at 1701 Foster Avenue, between E. 17th and E. 18th streets, went by the business today, they noticed something extremely upsetting. The words “Stay Close” had been spray painted in black on two of the outside walls.

community

Greenpoint Restaurant Vandalized with Swastikas

Photo courtesy of Acapulco Deli & Restaurant GREENPOINT — A Greenpoint restaurant was vandalized with swastikas and other obscene materials in December. On Sunday, December 22, two men were caught on surveillance video spray-painting the front of Acapulco Deli & Restaurant at 1116 Manhattan Avenue, a Mexican joint, cops said. In addition to

Announcements

Uptick in Bay Ridge Crimes Is Blamed on New Bail Reforms and Anti-Police Rhetoric

Nicole Malliotakis. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BAY RIDGE — Over the weekend, over three dozen residents woke up to their vehicles being vandalized along avenues in the 70s near Shore Road. For some cars, the tires were slashed. For others, they were keyed. Just last month, about 35 cars were also

News

Vandalism in Prospect Park? Photos Show Smashed Lights and Fences

PROSPECT PARK – In what appears to be an act of vandalism, streetlights were smashed and fences were broken along a pathway in Prospect Park over the weekend. A reader and his wife, both Park Slope residents, snapped the photos Monday morning while walking in the park, heading towards the dog

Cypress Hills

Police Seeking Man Who Vandalized A Cypress Hills Church Twice

CYPRESS HILLS – Police are looking for the man seen in the video below in connection to two criminal mischief incidents that occurred at a Cypress Hills church. At approximately 4:55pm on Tuesday, October 31 and at 7:20am on Saturday, November, 11, police say the suspect pushed over a

News

NYPD Releases Additional Video Of Man Who Vandalized Two Sunset Park Mosques

SUNSET PARK – The NYPD has released another video of the man they are seeking in connection to attacking two Sunset Park mosques with a hammer last Saturday. At approximately 5:20pm on November 11, police say the suspect used a hammer to smash a video camera and multiple windows at

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L Train Vandals Break Folding Seats On Day One

While many commuters wouldn’t exactly call the L train’s new folding seats “nice,” this is certainly an example of why we can’t have new things: apparently, vandals on the L train broke the new seats on the day of their debut. The new design, in which benches

Central Brooklyn

[Video] Vandal Carves 30 Swastikas Into Fresh Concrete In Kensington

Last weekend, an unknown perpetrator was caught on tape carving nearly 30 swastikas into freshly poured cement on Newkirk Avenue in Kensington. The video, from a private surveillance camera, shows the suspect etching multiple swastikas while gripping a small flashlight in his mouth on a residential Newkirk Avenue block near

Central Brooklyn

Activism On Your AM Commute: Lander & Local Residents Say ‘No’ To Islamophobic Graffiti

WT & Kensington neighbors rally at the Ft. Hamilton Pkwy F/G, December 12. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)“We will not tolerate acts of hatred,” said City Council Member Brad Lander and more than 30 neighbors this morning at a solidarity rally outside the subway station where Islamophobic graffiti littered

Bensonhurst

Quiet Gravesend Block Defaced With Gang Graffiti, Cops Shrug

Residents of a sleepy, treelined block in Gravesend woke up this morning to find their homes and cars vandalized with graffiti that appears to be associated with a particularly ruthless drug gang. At around 8:30am, we found confused neighbors standing outside their homes on East 2nd Street near Avenue

Neighbors

Photo Leads To Arrest Of Neighborhood Menace Behind Hateful Graffiti

Neighbor Kathy Kalayci said she spotted this man write “Obama Traitor” on the wall outside the Rybak constrcution site. (Photo by Kathy Kalayci )A neighbor’s photo led to the arrest of the local kook who’s been scrawling hateful messages and harassing elected officials in Sheepshead Bay. Police arrested

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Neighbor Spots Weirdo Scrawling Another Crude, Hateful Message In Sheepshead Bay

Neighbor Kathy Kalayci said she spotted this man write “Obama Traitor” on the wall outside the Rybak constrcution site. (Photo by Kathy Kalayci )The local kook who’s been scrawling hateful messages [/anti-commie-troll-strikes-again-with-childish-graffiti-on-sheepshead-bay-road/] all over Sheepshead Bay — and is sought by police for harassing local politicians [/internet-troll-lobs-hateful-emails-at-councilman-deutsch/] — was spotted last

Central Brooklyn

Random Tagging Or A Statement? Hinterlands Vandalized

Graffiti on the front window of Hinterlands. (Photo: Sarah Crean)Graffiti appeared this afternoon on the front window of Hinterlands, a bar opening soon [/business/hinterlands-bar-opening-soon-on-church-avenue/#.VqlHh7TFuT8] on Church Avenue. The bar is located in Kensington, at 739 Church Avenue between East 7th and East 8th streets. UPDATE: The owners

Business

Lights Out For Our 5th Avenue Christmas Tree After Vandal Snuffs Out Power

Photo via theotherfifth [https://www.instagram.com/p/_2X8ZnB1c8/]This is not what we should be reporting on. This is not the way a year ought to end. Certainly not for the active and very engaged Park Slope 5th Avenue BID [http://parkslopefifthavenuebid.com/]. Certainly not for the merchants on

Business

Lights Out For Our 5th Avenue Christmas Tree After Vandal Snuffs Out Power

Photo via theotherfifth [https://www.instagram.com/p/_2X8ZnB1c8/]This is not what we should be reporting on. This is not the way a year ought to end. Certainly not for the active and very engaged Park Slope 5th Avenue BID [http://parkslopefifthavenuebid.com/]. Certainly not for the merchants on

Police & Fire

Graffiti Complaints In Sheepshead Bay Up By 525 Percent This Year, Report Finds

> Photos from Today’s Graffiti Clean Up! #BeforeAndAfter [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeforeAndAfter?src=hash] #ActionsSpeakLouder [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActionsSpeakLouder?src=hash] #CommunityPolicing [https://twitter.com/hashtag/CommunityPolicing?src=hash] #QualityOfLife [https://twitter.com/hashtag/QualityOfLife?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/8y83wUd4iZ [http://t.co/8y83wUd4iZ] — NYPD 61st Precinct

candy

Have A Happy Halloween! Stay Safe With These Helpful Tips

Photo via festedicompleannobimbi [https://instagram.com/p/9bD-xGPmUs/?tagged=halloweenkids]A lot of us grew up hearing those terrifying Halloween tales about kids trick or treating. The poisoned candy. The razor blades. The scary people in that house. Urban myths or not, parents get concerned on this mischievous holiday. While

break in

More Car Vandalism Reported In The Neighborhood

A neighbor spotted this car’s smashed window on Albemarle Road. Photo by Kevin We’ve had numerous problems with car vandalism in the community, and, after writing about smashed windows throughout the area [/blog/crime/more-car-vandalism-reported-throughout-the-neighborhood] in July, a couple neighbors reached out to us about recent incidents on

break ins

Car Break-Ins Plague Kensington, Neighbors Say

One of a series of cars that had their windows smashed on E. 18th Street [/blog/crime/series-of-car-break-ins-reported-on-18th-street-between-ditmas-dorchester] . Photo by Rachel SchwartzAfter our sister site, Ditmas Park Corner [/], publisher this article [/blog/crime/series-of-car-break-ins-reported-on-18th-street-between-ditmas-dorchester] yesterday about car windows being smashed on E. 18th Street, between Ditmas Avenue and Dorchester Road,

Fort Greene Park

Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Vandalized With Edward Snowden Bust

Photof via ANIMAL New York.Apparently a crew of three artists, plus assistants, dragged a four-foot-tall plaster-like bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden up Fort Greene Park and on top of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument last night (Sunday night), and adhered it to one of the four corner columns.

starbucks 86th street

Lunatic Walks Into Starbucks On 86th Street With Pole, Smashes Laptop To Bits

The destroyed laptop.A pipe-wielding lunatic, who appeared to be in his 50s, smashed a random man’s laptop at Starbucks on 86th Street (1971 86th Street) today before fleeing on foot. I happened to be at said Starbucks at 4:40pm, when suddenly a loud crash rang out and

hate

Swastika Graffiti Spotted On American Legion Building

Source: Michael S.Swastika graffiti is hardly new in the Sheepshead Bay area [/index.php?s=%2Bswastika+%2Bgraffiti], but seeing it on a building dedicated to war veterans is a bit too much to stand. Reader Michael S. tipped us off to a new swastika sighted at the Marlboro Memorial

cat lady

Cat-Concerned Vigilante Vandalizes Emmons Avenue Asphalt

Are you freakin’ kidding me? Look, I care a lot about animals. I grew up in the kind of home where, well, we had a rescue pigeon. That’s right. We rescued an injured pigeon. And kept it in our home. Its name was Franklin. So I think I’ve

Keyed Cars

Has Your Car Been Keyed Lately? Report It

If you’ve noticed a number of cars in the area have been getting keyed lately, you’re not alone — neighbor David tells us that he’s seen an uptick cars being vandalized, and is hoping that those car owners will report those incidents to the 78th Precinct, so that