DUMBO – He may have come straight from the scene of a shooting, but Capt. Mark DiPaolo had good news at Tuesday night’s meeting of the 84th Precinct Community Council.
He announced that in the precinct, which includes Downtown, Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and DUMBO, crime overall is down 18 percent since the beginning of the year. He further broke it down into particular crimes: robbery is down 30 percent;
More details have surfaced about last weekend’s fatal Cypress Hills bar brawl, according to the Gothamist blog. About 3 a.m., police responded to reports of fighting at the Norwood Palace Sports Bar. When the cops arrived, according to Gothamist, 19-year-old {read more...}
Police are seeking Tommy Hairston of Bushwick, seen here, in connection with an attempted gunpoint robbery this past September near 61 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn Heights. Police say a 67-year-old man carrying a bag containing money was approached by Hairston, who pistol-whipped the senior when he didn’t comply. The victim was treated at Maimonides Hospital. Anyone {read more...}
Two youthful graffiti “writers,” whose tags were Rex and Guder and who vandalized much of the North Heights, were arrested this week after being identified on camera.
Leslie Lewis, president of the 84th Precinct Community Council, said that Capt. Mark DiPaolo,
At Warwick Street and Livonia Avenue in East New York last weekend, an off-duty police officer was sitting in a parked car when he was approached by a man with a gun who ordered the officer out of the car {read more...}
According to the New York Times, two men were arrested by Department of Environmental Conservation special officers after they hauled 46 striped bass – 44 more than the legal recreational limit – into their boat off Breezy Point. The officers {read more...}
Brownstoner, one of the best-known Brooklyn bloggers, writes on his blog that on Friday, his wife, while driving, was sideswiped on Pierrepont Street by a yellow cab, which then fled the scene. Although no one was injured, her mirror was {read more...}
A woman who is a manager at Macy’s on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn was run over and killed by a state correction officer on his way to work in Sing Sing Tuesday, police said. Police named the driver as {read more...}
Rapper Mike Beck, member of Fat Joe Cartagena’s K.A.R. Collective, was mourned Monday by the hip-hop community after he was killed Friday in Brooklyn. Reports are that robbery was the motive. Fat Joe confirmed the death via Twitter saying only {read more...}
A bank temp used the stolen identities of fellow employees to drain more than a million bucks from the accounts of a dozen charities and used the cash to buy a Lexus and throw parties, according to yesterday’s Daily {read more...}
This past Monday at approximately 3:45 p.m. at the Chase Bank branch at 9 DeKalb Ave., a man approached a teller and demanded money. After receiving an undetermined amount of cash, he fled the bank on foot. He is described {read more...}
The Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a suspect wanted in connection with a sexual assault in Brooklyn. On Tuesday around 4:30 a.m. near Diamond Street and Nassau Avenue, the suspect pushed a 25-year-old woman into a {read more...}
Two workers were shot, one fatally, during an apparent botched robbery Monday night in a barbershop in East New York. The incident took place inside the Perfect Touch Unisex Salon on Sutter Avenue. The victim, a 42-year-old man, was shot {read more...}
Firefighters racing to put out a two-alarm fire in a Brooklyn home early Tuesday made a gruesome discovery -- a dead man with his hands and feet bound, according to the Daily News. The badly burned victim was found on {read more...}
