By Mike McLaughlin
Williamsburg: Two firehouses decommissioned amid intense protests in 2003 will be reborn — one as a home for the borough’s nomadic orchestra and the other as community center.
Comment.
By Ben Muessig
Crime: Thugs roughed up a deliveryman on May 4, punching him in the face and stealing his cellphone. Plus all the crime news from Williamsburg’s 90th Precinct.
Comment.
By Ben Muessig
Crime: Crooks bored a hole into the roof of a Richardson Street warehouse on April 29, but they didn’t steal anything. Plus all the crime news from Williamsburg and Greenpoint’s 94th Precinct.
Comment.
By Emily Lavin
Crime: A gun-toting thug robbed a 92nd Street bodega early in the morning on May 1. Plus all the crime news from Bay Ridge’s 68th Precinct.
Comment.
By Mike McLaughlin
Crime: Three crooks calmly looted an unlocked college dorm room in the famous St. George hotel building on Henry Street on April 25. Plus all the crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Downtown, and Boerum Hill’s 84th Precinct.
Comment.
By Mike McLaughlin
Columbia St Waterfront: Author Thomas Pynchon didn’t show up at a party in his honor on Sunday at Freebird Books. Then again, if the reclusive author of “Mason & Dixon” and “V” had shown up, would anyone even know? Yes, say fans at the Columbia Street bookshop.
Comment.
By Mike McLaughlin
Boerum Hill: Residents of Butler Street in Boerum Hill say police aren’t doing enough to crack down on drug dealing and prostitution stemming from two abandoned houses on their block. But cops say they’re doing their best.
Comment.
By Mike McLaughlin
Crime: A man’s Amity Street home was burglarized on April 27. Plus all the crime news from Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook’s 76th Precinct.
Comment.
Fort Greene: Eighty years is a long time to wait, so forgive us if we were a bit underwhelmed by our first glimpse inside the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument inside Fort Greene Park, which opened for the first time in decades this Sunday.
With video … Comment.
By Mike McLaughlin
Crime: A man and woman stole a car that had just been dropped off by a customer at an Atlantic Avenue garage on April 27. Plus all the crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct.
Comment.
By Mike McLaughlin
Prospect Heights: Mooney’s, an Irish pub in Prospect Heights, has lost its fight to stay in its Flatbush Avenue home and will close for good by the end of June.
Comment.
By Gersh Kuntzman
Crime: Three teens were arrested after holding up a woman at gunpoint — or at least what she thought was gunpoint — on 13th Street on April 27. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct.
Comment.
By Emily Lavin
Crime: Someone broke into a Dean Street house sometime during the day on May 1. Plus all the crime news from Prospect Heights’ 77th Precinct.
Comment.
By Gersh Kuntzman
Crime: Two men sexually assaulted a teenager in the bathroom at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch on Grand Army Plaza on April 14, cops said.
Comment.
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