Feb. 5, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Violent crime dropped significantly across Brooklyn during the first month of the new year, according to the latest NYPD statistics. In the 28-day period from Jan. 4 to Feb. 2, the combined rate of major felonies — murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny…
Oct. 7, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen A 17-year-old boy was violently robbed inside the Utica Avenue-Crown Heights subway station on Friday night, according to the NYPD. The victim was on the platform waiting for a southbound 3 train just after 9 p.m. when an unknown man wearing a Chicago bulls hat and a blue-and-green…
Sep. 5, 2024 By Dean Moses A Crown Heights man was shot and killed in a Bed-Stuy subway station late on Wednesday night, according to police. Law enforcement sources said the victim — 47-year-old Freddie Weston of Sterling Place — was killed next to a MetroCard vending machine at the Rockaway Avenue train station…
Mar. 21, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A violent weekend marked the end of a relatively unsettled period in Brooklyn as some neighborhoods reported spikes in violent crime, according to the latest NYPD data.
Jan. 17, 2024 By Adam Daly
Police are looking for the man who stabbed a 31-year-old straphanger in Bed-Stuy on Christmas Day.
Nov. 13, 2023 By Adam Daly
A 31-year-old man was arrested last week in connection with a series of attacks on women on the subway system over a week-long period.
Sep. 6, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
A Brooklyn man has been arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime and other related charges for allegedly attacking a transgender woman on a subway without provocation in August.
Aug. 25, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro
Brooklyn man, Roland Henegan, 35, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for attacking a man at the Jay Street-MetroTech subway Station in Downtown Brooklyn last summer, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Wednesday.
Aug. 16, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
Police are on the lookout for a man who allegedly flashed himself in a Downtown Brooklyn subway station this month.
Aug. 14, 2023 By Adam Daly
Cops arrested a man for allegedly groping two young girls aboard buses in Canarsie and East Flatbush, officials said Monday.