Tag: jewelry

Thief steals $1.5M of jewelry from Downtown Brooklyn Macy’s, drops it all while fleeing

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Feb. 12, 2025 By Dean Moses & Brooklyn Paper Detectives are on the hunt for the daring masked thief who almost got away with more than a million dollars in jewelry stolen from a soon-to-be closed Macy’s store.  According to police, the crook — while disguising himself as a security guard — got into…

Brooklyn-born jewelry brand Catbird celebrates 20th birthday in Williamsburg

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Sep. 11, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen In 2004, Brooklynite Rony Vardi opened her first store on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. Catbird, in the beginning, sold an eclectic assortment of items: clothes, art supplies, candles, and jewelry. Twenty years later, the business has found its niche and flourished. Catbird now has seven — soon to…