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Squadron Sponsors Crackdown on Careless Driving, and a Reader Gives a Glaring Example

Squadron Sponsors Crackdown on Careless Driving, and a Reader Gives a Glaring Example

By on February 16, 2012 9:16 am in crime, Government, Traffic

State Senator Daniel Squadron is co-sponsoring, along with Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, a bill in the state legislature that would increase the power of police to bring charges in cases where it is believed that careless driving has caused injury or death.

The legislators introduced VTL 1146 after the tragic deaths of Hayley Ng, 4, and Diego Martinez, 3, who were killed in 2009 in Chinatown when a delivery van that was left in reverse jumped the curb and hit the children. The law became effective in October 2010 and imposes stiffer penalties on drivers whose failure to exercise due care results in the injury or death of pedestrians or bicyclists. The penalties for the first offense include a $750 fine, 15 days of jail time, participation in a driver safety course, suspension or revocation of the driver’s license or registration, or any combination of these penalties, and a misdemeanor charge on a second offense. Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Heights Busted Chef Reborn as The Montauk Grifter

Brooklyn Heights Busted Chef Reborn as The Montauk Grifter

By on February 14, 2012 7:59 pm in crime

We hate to say “we told you so,” but we told you so. The Notorious Busted Chef, Dan Kaufman, is up to his conning ways again. Gawker reports today that Kaufman was busted last month in Montauk by NYPD detectives:

Read BHB’s original coverage of the Busted Chef saga now.

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Fatality at Boro Hall Station

By on January 19, 2012 6:23 pm in Brooklyn Heights, News, Police Blotter, Transportation

Police are on scene at the Borough Hall Station at Court St. & Joralemon St. where a person was struck and killed by a train shortly before 5:30 p.m.

Preliminary reports indicate that the person was not the victim of a crime.

Traffic on the 4/5 lines is stopped on the southbound side, and northbound trains are bypassing the station until further notice.

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Armed Robbery on Remsen

By on January 19, 2012 8:28 am in Brooklyn Heights, crime, News

BHB contributor weegee alerts us, via Open Thread Wednesday, of an armed robbery that, according to Gothamist, took place at 114 Remsen Street yesterday at 2:14 p.m. The robbers fled in a vehicle that was stopped by police on the BQE. The robbers are in custody and a gun was taken.

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84th Precinct Community Council Meets Tuesday Evening

By on January 14, 2012 5:27 pm in crime, Government

There will be a meeting of the 84th Precinct community Council this Tuesday evening, January 17, starting at 7:00, at Borough Hall, entrance at 209 Joralemon Street (between Court and Adams streets). All are invited, and refreshments will be served. The agenda includes a presentation by the New York Peace Institute on mediation, the Cop of the Year award, a precinct crime report, a transit police report, and time for questions and answers.

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Willow Street Shooting [Video]

Willow Street Shooting [Video]

By on January 1, 2012 9:32 am in crime, Video


Karl Junkersfeld surveys the scene of last night’s shooting on Willow Street. Watch after the jump. Continue Reading →

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Willow Street Car Crash Shooting Photos

By on January 1, 2012 3:38 am in Brooklyn Heights, crime


Returning from the airport tonight at around 2am, I snapped a few photos of the scene of the New Year’s Eve shooting on Willow and Clark Street. Police were on hand gathering evidence. Continue Reading →

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DEVELOPING: Shooting Victim on Willow Street

By on December 31, 2011 10:45 pm in Brooklyn Heights, crime, News, Police Blotter

NYPD is operating on Willow St. near Clark St., where a vehicle has crashed on the sidewalk. An occupant of the vehicle was found to have been shot, with a suspect fleeing toward the Promenade. Officers have a suspect in custody on Columbia Heights.

UPDATE: The victim was shot once to the neck, and is being transported to Lutheran Medical Center.

1/1/12 UPDATE: The victim, 43, is listed in stable condition at LMC. The suspect, 19, is in custody with charges pending.

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Montague Street Radio Shack Robbed

By on December 29, 2011 12:40 pm in crime

The Radio Shack at 110 Montague Street was robbed of $7K in electronics on December 22. The Brooklyn Paper reports that 3 armed thugs – two with guns another brandishing a knife – burst into the store at 9:40 pm. The perps locked the store’s clerk in the basement and fled the scene.

Radio Shack, while the subject of ridicule seems to be a favorite target of thieves. Case in point – the Montague Street store was also held up last year.

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Trucks Troubling You? Come to 84th Precinct Community Council Meeting Tuesday

By on November 12, 2011 10:47 pm in crime, Events, Government, Traffic

D.I. Mark DiPaolo, 84th Precinct Commander, sends us word that the 84th Precinct Community Council will meet this Tuesday evening, November 15, starting at 7:00, at the Baptist Temple, 360 Schermerhorn Street, between Third Avenue and Nevins Street. The featured event will be a report by the Truck Enforcement Unit. Also on the agenda are a Transit Police report, a precinct crime report, presentation of the Cop of the Month Award, and a question and answer period. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served.

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Wheel Thieves Strike Again

Wheel Thieves Strike Again

By on November 10, 2011 10:53 am in Brooklyn Heights, crime

A Range Rover sits forlornly, bereft of left wheels and propped up on a partially collapsed plastic milk crate, on Pierrepont Place, between Montague and Pierrepont Streets, this morning. We don’t know if this is the work of the same crooks who, over the weekend, took the wheels from a Honda CR-V parked on Henry Street between Joralemon and State streets, as reported in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, also in this week’s Brooklyn Heights Press (p.5), but it’s the same modus operandi, down to the lug nuts neatly clustered on the pavement.

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Cops Credited with Bridge Grab

By on November 5, 2011 8:04 pm in DUMBO, News, Police Blotter

Our gang over at the 84th Precinct made a good grab this afternoon on the Manhattan Bridge, when they responded to a report of an emotionally disturbed person standing on the span’s outer edge. P.O. Anthony Brooks, an 18-year veteran of the department, engaged the person, a 38-year-old male, in conversation. Shortly after seeing the officers, the man turned and began to quickly walk away from them. Officer Brooks, with the assistance of P.O. William Cooper and P.O. Daniel Sandberg, followed and managed to grab him by the waist and pull him over the fence to their side. EMS responded and transported the subject to Bellevue Hospital.

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Thugs Creepin’ in Brooklyn Heights

By on November 2, 2011 4:04 pm in crime

As we search for our next Police Blotter reporter, this crazy crime news comes to us from the Brooklyn Paper:

A man fought off two knife-wielding thugs who tried to steal his iPhone on Hicks Street on Oct. 24.

The fearless would-be victim said that he was near Pineapple Street at 10 pm when one of the men held a knife to his throat and asked for his cellphone.

He responded by punching that thief in the face, prompting both men to run off.

And another (alleged) sub-human robbed another iPhone on Willow Place: Continue Reading →

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84th Precinct Community Council Meets Tuesday Evening; Focus on Domestic Violence

By on October 16, 2011 9:36 pm in crime

Deputy Inspector Mark DiPaolo has announced that the next meeting of the 84th Precinct Community Council will be at St. James Pavilion in Concord Village, 240 Jay Street (between Cathedral Place and Chapel Street), starting at 7:00 p.m. this coming Tuesday, October 18. The special guest at this meeting will be the precinct’s domestic violence officer. Also on the agenda are the Cop of the Month award, a transit police report, the precinct crime report, and a question-and-answer session in which all may participate. All are invited, and refreshments will be served.

If you would like to receive the 84th’s Community Alert e-mails, please call P.O. John Kenny at (718) 875-6363 and give him your e-mail address.

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Wild in the (Brooklyn Heights) Streets

By on October 9, 2011 8:08 am in crime

Yes, folks it’s not shocking that there are freaks, misfits and malcontents out on the streets of New York City. One BHB reader writes us to warn of those lurking right here in Brooklyn Heights:

I live on Columbia Pl. On the way home [Friday] evening (morning) about 2:15am my friend and I were assaulted on State St between Henry and Hicks. We successfully fought him off. White Male 18-25yrs 5′ 8-10″. He kept shouting “you think you’re funny” until we got the upper hand when he started repeating “we’re friends! we’re friends!” he ran away north on Hicks. We did not call the police as we were unharmed.

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