Jan. 2, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A 17-year-old boy was shot Thursday morning in Brooklyn’s second shooting of the new year. An unknown gunman shot the teen in the abdomen near the corner of Park and North Portland avenues in Fort Greene just before 8:30 a.m., police said, just steps from…
Jan. 2, 2025 By Dean Moses Police have identified the woman who was burned to death aboard a Brooklyn F train in a shocking arson attack last week. Debrina Kawam, 57, was so badly burned it took authorities several weeks to put a name to her body. Sources familiar with the investigation say that…
Jan. 2, 2025 By Adam Daly A 42-year-old man was arrested last month after allegedly attempting to steal copper from a shipyard at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A security guard at GMD Shipyard on Flushing Avenue reported the incident to police around 8 a.m. on Dec. 18, saying the man was seen using tools…
Dec. 31, 2024 By Adam Daly The NYPD is seeking to identify a man accused of mugging a teenager at knifepoint aboard a Q train earlier this month. The incident occurred at 1:20 p.m. on Dec. 14, when a 17-year-old boy was riding a northbound Q train approaching the Sheepshead Bay station. According to…
Dec. 27, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller Community advocates gathered at Brooklyn’s Coney Island Stillwell Avenue subway station on Thursday afternoon to mourn a woman who was burned to death in the station on Sunday morning. The prayer vigil, hosted by activist Rev. Kevin McCall, was held to commemorate the yet-to-be-identified woman who died after being set…
Dec. 23, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell Two separate residential fires left 24 people displaced in East Flatbush over the weekend. On Friday, Dec. 20, shortly before 8 p.m., a two-alarm fire broke out at a single-family home on the 800 block of New York Avenue, near Linden Boulevard. When firefighters arrived…
Dec. 20, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell Firefighters battled a fire Friday morning at the store, located at 5601 Preston Court in East Flatbush, an area that has seen more than a dozen blazes in the past five years. The blaze broke out just after 11:45 a.m, on Dec. 20, officials said. Sixty firefighters from…
Dec. 20, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A homeless man has been indicted for murder after allegedly fatally stabbing another man during a dispute on an N train at the Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Tuesday. Zhongqian Chen, 32, was arraigned Dec. 17 before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Dineen…
Dec. 17, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his grandfather with a machete and wounding two other family members, including his four-year-old niece, during a violent attack inside their Bedford-Stuyvesant home, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Monday. Dayquan Dubose,…
Dec. 17, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell Brooklyn homicide detectives are searching for a suspect who fatally stabbed a man Tuesday morning at a deli in Brownsville. The attack happened just after 6:50 a.m. on Dec. 17 at the Mucho Loca Deli, located at 441 Sutter Ave., according to police. Officers from the 73rd Precinct…