Williamsburg: Two schools were burglarized last week, in incidents that netted criminals thousands of dollars in cash and electronics. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Jaw broken

By Dana Rubinstein

Williamsburg: An assailant broke a pedestrian’s jaw in multiple places on Feb. 24, after a woman started a conversation with another man. Plus all the other crime news from Greenpoint’s 94th Precinct. Comment.

Muggings! This train is ‘L’ on riders at Bedford Ave.

By Dana Rubinstein

Williamsburg: A hard week for twenty-something men using the Bedford Avenue L station ended with hard time for one teenager. Comments (2).

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Jazzy funeral for a church

By Gersh Kuntzman

Bay Ridge: They’ve tried marching. They’ve tried chanting. So why not try a little New Orleans jazz to save the historic Bay Ridge United Methodist Church? Comments (3).

The Brooklyn Paper / Jeff Bachner

Nice place to visit or die

By Mike McLaughlin

Bay Ridge: Three months, two deaths, one hotel — and everyone is talking. Comment.

Boy robbed

By Joe Jordan

Bay Ridge: A 16-year-old boy was beaten and robbed on Shore Road on Feb. 28. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights’s 68th Precinct. Comment.

Driveway rob

By Michael Giardina

Bay Ridge: A couple walking to the steps of their 70th Street home was beaten and robbed by a group of perps on March 1. Plus all the crime news from Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

DUMBO plan could nix David

By Dana Rubinstein

DUMBO: DUMBO residents want the city to expand a rezoning proposal to not only preventing skyscrapers like the 33-story J Condos and 23-story Beacon Tower from rising again, but also to block David Walentas’s Dock Street project. Comment.

The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan

Another Remsen swastika

By Emily Lavin

Downtown: Vandals tagged a Remsen Street brownstone with anti-Semitic graffiti last week, less than one month after a Brooklyn Heights man was indicted for covering houses and cars on the same street with swastikas last fall. Comment.

Grand idea, too late

By Mike McLaughlin

Rezoning: The city moved to restrict development along a low-rise stretch of Grand Street, but activists urged the city to speed up the process to protect the neighborhood’s character. Comment.

‘Shooting’ scare at Heights prep school

By Harry Cheadle

Downtown: An elite private school went under siege on Feb. 22 when a student received an anonymous online message from someone claiming that he would blow up the school. Plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Trade tools

By Mike McLaughlin

Carroll Gardens: Thieves on wheels plundered a parked commercial truck laden with valuable tools on Sackett Street on Feb. 21. Plus all the other crime news from Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Cobble Hill’s 76th Precinct. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

It’s not funny

By Harry Cheadle

Fort Greene: A man’s sense of humor got him into trouble on Feb. 27, when he laughed at two guys fighting and ended up with a bump on his head. Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comment.

My copycat neighbors

By Dana Rubinstein

Greene Acres: Fort Greene is becoming Park Slope — and it’s intentional! Comments (3).

Park Slope

Fake money stolen!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Park Slope: A beer-loving perp assaulted a bodega clerk and then stole fake money off the store’s wall before running away on Feb. 26. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Christopher Mulhare

Is Club Loco too loco?

By Wendy Ponte

PS … I Love You: Our columnist takes you inside the kid’s only night spot, Club Loco. Comments (1).

< Previous issue

Next issue >