Brooklyn Local News

NYPD say over the past month two homes on East 32nd Street and two others on East 21st Street have been targeted by residential burglaries. Police say burglars entered through unlocked back doors to homes on East 32nd Street while residents slept, making off with computers and cash. Two homes were also victimized on East 21st Street, where burglars climed through a window and made off with more…

Two men in Brooklyn were shot; gunman still at large

The search is on for a gunman responsible for shooting two men in the lobby of a Brooklyn building early Monday, according to police.

The men were shot around 2:15 a.m. in the lobby of a building on Third Avenue near Baltic Street, in the Boerum Hill neighborhood, NYPD said.  One man, 19, was shot in the left leg, and the other, 20, was shot in the buttocks, according to police. Both were…

14 injured in Brooklyn apartment blaze that left woman trapped

An apartment fire injured 14 people, one critically, early Monday, officials said.

The three alarm fire started in a second-floor kitchen and spread to most of the four-story brick building located at 1225 49 St., near 13th Ave., in Borough Park around 4:30 a.m.

FDNYalerts BKLYN 3-ALARM 1225 49 ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE THROUGHOUT BUILDING,

— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) October 16, 2017

The fire…

N.J. man claims he was beaten, taunted with racial slur in NYC

“One of the officers punching the plaintiff remarked ‘f***ing n****r, what are you going to do now,’” the lawsuit alleged.

A New Jersey man is suing the city and several police officers, saying he was beaten and taunted with a racial slur in a Crown Heights precinct  — moments after his young daughter left his side for an arranged visit with her mother at the 71st precinct. Lansford Watson’s…

Woman attempts to kidnap baby in stroller in Crown Heights

A woman attempted to kidnap another woman’s baby Wednesday morning in Crown Heights. The baby’s mother was pushing the 13-month-old child in a stroller on Eastern Parkway Wednesday, October 11th,  just before 9 a.m., officials said. She stopped in front of the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters and briefly stepped inside, leaving the baby in the stroller outside.

A passing 26-year-old woman…

$1G reward offered for info on crooks in Brooklyn home invasion

Eric Adams, Brooklyn’s borough President, has offered a reward of $1,000 for any information that leads to the arrest of the perpetrators of a mid-day Brooklyn home invasion that led to the death of a 91-year-old man.

“This is a time for mournful prayer, and a time for purposeful action, I am personally putting up $1,000 for any information that leads to the arrest and indictment of these violent…

Bay Ridge Ave. station re-opened friday after six-month rennovation

After a six-month makeover the Bay Ridge Ave. station was reopened on Friday. The 102-year-old Bay Ridge Ave. station had its grand reopening, with MTA chief Joe Lhota on hand to cut the ribbon with local elected officials. It is one of four stops on the R line that underwent extensive renovations under Gov. Cuomo’s enhanced station initiative – new digital information signs, countdown clocks,…

Three Muggers beat NYC cabbie

Three men hailed a taxi before attacking the driver when they reached their Brooklyn destination, cops said Saturday, October 7th. The three men asked the 34-year-old cabbie to take them to Saint Andrews Place and Herkimer St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 4:10 a.m. Sept. 29th, according to police. When they arrived at their destanation, they exited the car and stole his property, surveillance…

Brooklyn street musician found unconscious near home dies after 3 months, death ruled a homicide

Nelson Carrion, 62, was found with a head wound on Prospect Place near Classon Ave. in Prospect Heights three months ago May 28,  5:30 p.m. NYPD said. He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died Sept. 10, police said. The city medical examiner found he was beaten and ruled his death a homicide, officials said. No arrests have been made.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime…

Man, 28, dead after falling and hitting head outside Williamsburg bar, Duffs

Steven Vazquez, 28, was found unconscious and unresponsive, with trauma to his head, on Marcy Avenue between Broadway and South Fifth Street, October 8th after a 911 call around 7 a.m. about a person who needed help, according to the NYPD. The Ridgewood resident was hospitalized, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Investigators believe Vazquez drank too much and passed out. No…

Police spotted Roger Grant, 21, grinding up against a 42-year-old woman on a Bronx-bound No. 5 train rumbling into the Fulton St. station in Lower Manhattan at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, official said. Grant put up a fight when cops moved in to arrest him, cutting the officer’s thumb, police said. He was charged with sex abuse and resisting arrest.

Later that day, Dontez Johnson allegedly…

"This radioactive isotope could be used in a dirty bomb terrorist attack,” said Health Commissioner Mary Bassett

Twelve hospitals and schools have agreed to remove the irradiators, which are used for preparing blood transfusions and in cancer research, and replace them with  machines that use X-ray technology. The twelve hospitals and medical schools are the only ones in the city that posses the irradiator device. A total of 30 of them are set to be gone by 2023, two have already been removed.

“While it’s…

NYPD shoots and wounds teen in possession of BB gun in East Flatbush

An officer shot and wounded a teen armed with a BB gun in Brooklyn Thursday night, cops said. The gunfire erupted at Church Ave. and E. 34th St. in East Flatbush at about 10:10 p.m., authorities said.

“One police officer discharged one round striking the suspect in the leg,” NYPD Chief of Patrol Terence A. Monahan said at a Friday morning press conference.

Responding police found the teen in the…

Group of armed men gun down victim in Cypress Hills

An armed group chased a man out of a pizzeria in the Cypress Hills area of Brooklyn Thursday and shot him in the street, officials said.

The group of four to five young men followed the 25-year-old victim into the Caterina Pizza shop near the corner of Fulton St. and Essex St. about 7:23 p.m. and followed him when he ran outside, a cashier at the shop said.

They followed him as he ran on Fulton…

Driver abandons passenger after collision leaves car engulfed in flames

Saeed Ahmad, 23, was driving recklessly in and out of traffic on the westbound side of the BQE when his 2007 Infiniti G35 hit the median in the left lane. The car lost control near the Prospect Expressway about 4 a.m., witnesses told police.

“He said the girl that was in the car was stuck in there and he tried to get her out, that’s why his arms were burned,” said Saeed’s brother Waheed Ahmad.…

Andre Alberto, 17, accused of shooting a 19-year-old man to death held without bail Friday.

A Brooklyn judge ordered a teenager accused of shooting a 19-year-old man to death held without bail Friday.

Andre Alberto, 17, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly killing Ramone Ortiz. Alberto shot Ortiz multiple times in the chest outside the Gowanus Houses on Baltic St. near Bond St. around 3:50 a.m., police said. Ortiz died at Brooklyn Hospital.

NYPD charged Alberto Andre, 17, with murder…

Man who hit NYPD cop with ATV gets seven years in prison

Kenny Ortiz was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for mowing down an NYPD detective with an ATV and dragging him down a Brooklyn street.

“Such lawless behavior on our roads is dangerous and unacceptable, making him fully deserving of the prison sentence that was imposed today,” said Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

Kenny Ortiz, 36, was driving the ATV on and off the…