By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg: A woman was partying too hard at a Bedford Avenue nightclub on Jan. 10 — and someone swiped her handbag, cops said. Plus all the crime news from Greenpoint’s 94th Precinct.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Williamsburg: It was a bad week for old folks in Williamsburg. Plus all the crime news from the 90th Precinct.
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By Joe Jordan
The Brooklyn Paper / Joe Jordan
Bay Ridge: Twenty-one years after one-way tolling began on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the toll bays on the Brooklyn-bound side of the span will finally be removed. In six more years, that is.
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By Joe Jordan
Bay Ridge: Police in Bay Ridge have arrested a woman and charged her with fatally stabbing a man in the Best Western Gregory Hotel last month.
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By Michael Giardina
Bay Ridge: Yet another Chinese food deliveryman was robbed, this time at knifepoint in a Bay 17th Street building on Jan. 9. Plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct.
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By Joe Jordan
Bay Ridge: A 64-year-old Bay Ridge man is the latest victim of a widespread Canadian-based sweepstakes scam. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights’ 68th Precinct.
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By Joe Jordan
Bay Ridge: The Constitution can make you healthy. That’s the word over at Bay Ridge’s Appletree Natural Foods shop, which, in the spirit of the presidential primary season, has set aside an entire window for a gigantic display of our nation’s founding document.
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By Harry Cheadle
Downtown: A car and a motorcycle were stolen within hours of each other on Jan. 9. Plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, Downtown and DUMBO’s 84th Precinct.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Carroll Gardens: Borough President Markowitz is pushing the state to probe a mismanaged preschool weeks after it seemingly went belly up.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Carroll Gardens: Two gun-toting bandits raked in $9,600 from a heist in a Seabring Street warehouse on Jan. 5.
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By Dana Rubinstein
The Brooklyn Paper / Jeff Bachner
Fort Greene: In a move virtually guaranteed to tarnish town-gown relations, PrattStore — the modernist art supply shop run by the venerable Pratt Institute — has begun offering custom framing, prompting a local merchant to claim that business at her own Myrtle Avenue shop has been devastated.
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By Harry Cheadle
Fort Greene: A fight between two men ended up with one man’s car stolen and another beaten.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Park Slope: One teen who robbed a woman on Fifth Street near Prospect Park was chased down and collared on Jan. 6, but his accomplice got away.
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By Christopher Cascarano
Park Slope: A thief made off with a woman’s wallet while she was dining at a Flatbush Avenue sushi restaurant on Jan. 13. Plus all the crime news from Prospect Heights’s 77th Precinct.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Park Slope: A housecleaner has been blamed for stealing jewelry from a Sterling Place apartment on Dec. 18. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Park Slope: A heroic city employee protected 50 people, most of them tykes, in a Prospect Heights playground after two shots were fired in their direction on Jan. 9. He told the harrowing story exclusively to The Brooklyn Paper.
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