Williamsburg: A jeweler was kidnapped at gunpoint in the Hasidic section of Williamsburg on Dec. 31 and forced to drive to his warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where his captors stole more than $1 million worth of gold and jewels. Comment.

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

School bully

By Joe Jordan

Bay Ridge: A Fort Hamilton HS student assaulted a school security officer on Jan. 4. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge’s 68th Precinct. Comment.

Home invasion

By Michael Giardina

Bay Ridge: A trespassing thief shot a man inside his 70th Street apartment while the victim was watching television on Jan. 5. Plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct. Comments (1).

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Court slash

By Adam F. Hutton

Downtown: A woman was slashed with a razor after an argument at the criminal courthouse on Jay Street on Jan. 3. Plus all the crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Placard crackdown — can it work?

By Adam F. Hutton

The Brooklyn Paper / Jeff Bachner

Downtown: Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to crack down on government workers who abuse their parking privileges will only succeed in Downtown Brooklyn if the NYPD makes good on its promise to ticket illegally parked permit-bearing cars, experts say. Comments (3).

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

LICH docs: Set us free!

By Mike McLaughlin

Carroll Gardens: Doctors at Long Island College Hospital said the facility is faltering because the company that manages it is reportedly siphoning money to a Manhattan hospital also under its control. Comment.

All bark, no bite

By Mike McLaughlin

Carroll Gardens: A gun-toting robber tried to stick up an eatery on Dwight Street, but left empty-handed. Plus all the other news from Red Hook, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill’s 76th Precinct. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Drug clinic gets more oversight

By Dana Rubinstein

The Brooklyn Paper / Jeff Bachner

Fort Greene: Growing complaints about disorderly conduct outside a Clinton Hill methadone clinic have prompted two legislators, the clinic, and a state agency to create a neighborhood task force. Comment.

Babes at gunpoint

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: It was a bad week for 12-year-old boys in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. In two separate incidents on Jan. 3, two 12-year-old boys were robbed at gunpoint. Plus all the other crime news from Clinton Hill and Fort Greene’s 88th Precinct. Comment.

Park Slope

Villains ring in ’08 with crime

By Gersh Kuntzman

Park Slope: New Year’s Eve is a popular time for partiers to practice their hedonistic art, but it also proved to be a good time for criminals to get to work in Park Slope. At least five crimes — including an assault, two break-ins, a purse-snatching, and a car theft — all occurred in the hours just before or just after the ball dropped in Times Square. Plus other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Fire escaped

By Chris Cascarano

Park Slope: A thief made off with $2,700 in valuables from a Prospect Place apartment on Jan. 2. Plus all the other crime news from our newest precinct, the 77th in Prospect Heights. Comments (1).

Standoff! Slope comes to halt as man with shotgun goes nuts

By Gersh Kuntzman

Park Slope: Ninth Street was locked down late on Jan. 6 and early into the next morning after an emotionally disturbed — and possibly drugged out — man fired a shotgun inside his house. Comment.

Cops seek help nailing bank thief

By Joe Jordan

Park Slope: Here is the man whom police say robbed the Commerce Bank on Fifth Avenue on Dec. 23. Comment.

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