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84th Precinct Community Council Meeting Tuesday Evening

By Claude Scales on May 17, 2013 12:36 pm in crime

Captain Maximo Tolentino, Commander of the 84th Precinct, has announced a meeting of the precinct’s Community Council this Tuesday evening, May 21, starting at 7:00 p.m., in Geraldo’s Room (named for Brooklyn Law alum Geraldo Rivera), Brooklyn Law School, 205 State Street (between Court Street and Boerum Place). On the agenda will be presentation of [...]

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Brooklyn Federal Courthouse Target of Second “Anthrax” Letter

By Claude Scales on May 16, 2013 12:51 am in crime, Downtown Brooklyn, News

Lightning is said not to strike the same place twice, but the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, at Tillary Street and Cadman Plaza East, has twice this month received envelopes containing white powder. According to the Daily News, the second envelope arrived Wednesday afternoon and white powder came out after a courthouse employee opened it in a [...]

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84th Precinct Police Blotter – 5/8/13

By Heather Quinlan on May 8, 2013 9:54 am in crime, Police Blotter

The days are getting longer but the perps are getting brazen-er. It’s this week’s blotter.

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Brooklyn Federal Court Evacuated Due to Suspicious White Powder

By Heather Quinlan on May 7, 2013 4:40 pm in crime

@NYScanner reports: 225 Cadman Plaza NYPD on scene investigating a suspicious white powder found at the Federal court building. Update after the jump.

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84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/30/13

By Heather Quinlan on April 30, 2013 6:14 pm in crime, Police Blotter

The weather reports are great, but the police reports continue. It’s this week’s blotter.

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84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/24/13

By Heather Quinlan on April 24, 2013 8:37 am in crime, Police Blotter

Another robbery at Macy’s, another sleeping straphanger loses his iPod, and Planet Fitness is now 0-4. It’s this week’s blotter.

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84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/17/13

By Heather Quinlan on April 17, 2013 8:39 am in crime, Police Blotter

Hey there, it’s the “better late than never” edition of this week’s dispatches from the 84. Since I’m already behind schedule I’ll cut to the chase. Two straphangers had their iPhones stolen while slumbering on the subway–the first happened last Friday at approximately 4:30 a.m. on a northbound F train; cops cuffed a 20-year-old who [...]

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Former St. Francis College Student Accused Of Beating & Robbing Woman In Brooklyn

By Chuck Taylor on April 4, 2013 11:31 am in Brooklyn Heights, crime, Police Blotter

A former student at Brooklyn Heights’ St. Francis College at 180 Remsen Street, has been nabbed for allegedly beating and robbing a 56-year-old woman last month. Aidan Folan, who was caught on video at the 18th Avenue F station in Brooklyn, was wearing a hoodie with the Greek letters of his fraternity, Alpha Phi Delta, [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

By Claude Scales on April 3, 2013 11:20 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, crime, Events, Food, Fun, History, movies, Music

Baseball is on again, and the Brooklyn Historical Society is hosting a celebration of the centenary of the opening of Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, this Saturday, April 6, starting at 2:00 p.m. A little ahead of the weekend, tomorrow evening (Thursday, April 4) starting at 7:00, BHS will present a lecture by [...]

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