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
The days are getting longer but the perps are getting brazen-er. It’s this week’s blotter.
Brooklyn Federal Court Evacuated Due to Suspicious White Powder
@NYScanner reports: 225 Cadman Plaza NYPD on scene investigating a suspicious white powder found at the Federal court building. Update after the jump.
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/30/13
The weather reports are great, but the police reports continue. It’s this week’s blotter.
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/24/13
Another robbery at Macy’s, another sleeping straphanger loses his iPod, and Planet Fitness is now 0-4. It’s this week’s blotter.
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/17/13
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 […]
Former St. Francis College Student Accused Of Beating & Robbing Woman In Brooklyn
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, […]
Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
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 […]
84th Police Precinct Blotter – 4/2/2013
A woman’s backpack is stolen from her car, but what’s more surprising are the contents inside. It’s this week’s blotter.
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 3/27/13
Hey there, Perps and Skells! It’s HQ here, newly unemployed and free to get down to business with the blotter again! I know, it’s been awhile …
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