BHB’s Qfwfq shot this photo on Sunday on Columbia Place. Seems as though a giant decorative spider was lifted from 149 Columbia Heights Halloween night. A “spider hotline” has been set up – 718-855-0772 – for any tipsters to drop the time on the fake spider thief. Nabe resident Peter Steinberg writes BHB with his […]
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Some Crime is Up in the 84th; Still Not the Bad Old Days
With comments like this one on BHB: I am worried for my safety as well in the evenings. I used to feel totally comfortable walking all over the neighborhood and I don’t now – I feel like a target. Is there anyone on this board that can speak to what the local police are doing […]
Nabe Crime Roundup
The Brooklyn Paper’s Police Blotter is chock full of Brooklyn Heights heists this week including this robbery: A perp broke into an apartment on Willow Street between Middagh and Cranberry streets on Oct. 17, getting a television, several video game consoles and programs, a laptop, an iPod, and several pieces of expensive jewelry. The woman […]
Ivaylo the Terrible Hits Court Today
Accused pipe bomb maker/swastika painter Ivaylo Ivanov will appear in Brooklyn Supreme Court for a pre-trial hearing today according to the Brooklyn Eagle. Brooklyn Eagle: Ivaylo….: Nearly two dozen swastikas were found painted on Remsen Street and Columbia Place and their adjoining streets, some of which were accompanied with words of hate – “Kill All […]
Secure Jobs in Economic Crunch: Bank Robber
The Citibank at 181 Montague St. is no stranger to excitement. At around 9:45 this morning, a man in his 50s, wearing a plaid jacket, displayed a firearm, passed a note to a teller, and fled with an unknown amount of currency.
Parole Office Mess Open Thread
Clearly, the escape of a 32 year old parolee about to be busted again on assault charges from the parole office at 147 Pierrepont Street (1 Pierrepont Plaza) has confirmed many residents’ worst fears. The Head of St. Ann’s School, Dr. Larry Weiss, told channel 9, “Two weeks into the school year to have an […]
Parolee Escape at One Pierrepont Plaza
As a commenter on the previous post noted, this afternoon a parolee fled from an interrogation room at One Pierrepont Plaza, a building which the federal parole office shares with part of St. Ann’s School, and was pursued on the street by officers, at least one of whom may have drawn his weapon, ten minutes […]
Crime Wave!
The Brooklyn Paper’s Police Blotter is full of Brooklyn Heights crimes this week including – thugs mugging citizens on High Street and Pinapple Street as well as burglaryapalooza in the nabe with at least 3 reported break-ins. Not to mention last night’s reported gun point robbery on Joralemon. Is it time to send the boys […]
Botched Break In at Browning Frames and Prints
Someone tried to break into Browning Frames and Prints on Cranberry Street around 4am, owner Katie Browning tells BHB. An eyewitness account claims that a caucasian male about 6 feet tall hurled a huge rock at the store’s glass door, damaging but not breaking through it. He also kicked in the lower portion of the […]
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