Aug. 21, 2024 By Dean Moses Detectives have obtained new footage that they hope will lead to the capture of a killer involved in a 13-year-old cold case in Bedford-Stuyvesant. According to police sources, while images of the suspect had been released previously, this is the first time video footage has been shared with…
Aug. 20, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen Two bodies have been found on Brooklyn’s shores in apparently unrelated incidents this week. The first, the body of an unidentified man believed to be in his 30s, was spotted floating in the water near Van Brunt and Reed streets in Red Hook on Sunday afternoon, according to…
Aug. 19, 2024 By Natalie Dahan A Bed-Stuy elementary school school will be re-named to honor slain NYPD officer Detective Rafael Ramos, who was shot and killed in the neighborhood in 2014. The school, P.S. 54 on Sandord Street, will officially take Ramos’ name during a ceremony on Sept. 13, according to the Detective…
Aug. 16, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell Brooklyn detectives are investigating a shooting that left a man critically injured in Bed-Stuy early Friday afternoon. Officers from the 79th Precinct responded to 205 Macon St. just before 12:13 p.m., where they found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds to his abdomen. The victim collapsed onto a…
Aug. 15, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A second alleged gunman has been charged for the February killing of 13-year-old Troy Gill in Crown Heights.
Aug. 14, 2024 By Dean Moses
Police in Brooklyn are frantically searching for a missing teenager who she sent a text message Tuesday saying that she had been kidnapped.
Aug. 12, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil
Cops are looking to identify the man they say snatched a pair of chains from a woman’s neck at the Myrtle Avenue and Central Avenue M station late last month.
Aug. 9, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
A man barricaded himself inside a home in Ocean Hill on Thursday afternoon and set it on fire, keeping NYPD officers and FDNY firefighters at bay for hours.
Aug. 7, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil
Despite dark skies and heavy rain, the spirit of National Night Out Against Crime was alive and well in parts of Brooklyn on Tuesday.
Aug. 6, 2024 By Dean Moses & Brooklyn Paper staff
The second suspect behind an antisemitic graffiti spree that targeted the homes of Jewish members of the Brooklyn Museum’s board of directors, who is also an credentialed member of the New York City media, turned himself into police on Tuesday.