Did Charter School Delete Video Showing Crime? Plus: Asshole Neighbor; The Pigeon In the Kitchen Dilemma; and More Brooklyn Briefs

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Wish a nice day to all friends #Brooklyn Botanic Garden pic.twitter.com/ytBIGO3nJi

— PicPublic (@PicPublic) April 20, 2017

- Brooklyn charter school deleted video showing students sexually assaulting girl on bus: lawsuit. [Daily News]

- Asshole neighbor painted another Brooklyn brownstone owner's wall black, without her permission. [Daily Mail]

- Report: As homelessness increases, Brooklyn stands to lose thousands of units of affordable housing. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Williamsburg woman comes back from long trip to find a pregnant pigeon in her kitchen, using an orange pasta strainer as a nest. [CBS]

- Parents say Crown Heights school did not disclose abnormally high levels of lead in water supply. [Pix11]

- Sheepshead Bay, old and new: Condos where El Greco Diner stood. [Brooklyn Eagle]

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Nude Shakespeare; 'Love Pimpin' Gets Slammed; BBQ'd Eel Thieves; and More Brooklyn Briefs

This morning #Harbor #SCUBA pulled this dog from the waters of Gravesend Bay. If you recognize him, call @NYPD62Pct pic.twitter.com/X149K5XRdJ

— NYPD Special Ops (@NYPDSpecialops) August 19, 2016

- Female Shakespeare troupe bringing a free, all-nude Tempest to Prospect Park. [Brokelyn]

- Former Thomas Jefferson H.S. basketball star sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting his friend and basketball rival in Sheepshead Bay. [Sheepshead Bites]

- A Brooklyn man known as ‘Love Pimpin’ was sentenced to 30 years Monday for prostituting minors and producing child pornography. [Pix11]

- Man found dead in Bay Parkway home with cuts on neck and arms. [Bensonhurst Bean]

- 108 Wycoff Street isn’t your typical Brooklyn brownstone. It delights people from all over and has become a wall of hope and beauty. [CBS local]

- Three men caught in Brooklyn with $360G worth of -- what else? -- stolen barbecued eels. [Daily News]

- Gross: An X-ray technician was arrested Saturday on suspicion of groping two female patients at Kings County Hospital. [Pix11]

- The “healthy food chain” Honeygrow will be opening its first New York City restaurant on Joralemon St. in Brooklyn Heights. [BHB]

- Jalapa Jar breakfast taco shop opens in the arcade at the St. George Hotel and Clark Street subway 2/3 station Tuesday morning. [Gothamist]


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Smart Gun Challenge; Model Agency Scam; and More Brooklyn Briefs

#NYC to feds: Release #Zika funding before it gets worse. 111 #Brooklyn cases. https://t.co/Xn6SlYPBBD pic.twitter.com/YbAreY2Ps6

— Brooklyn Daily Eagle (@BklynEagle) August 17, 2016

- Pollution in Sheepshead Bay is getting disgusting. [Sheepshead Bites]

- Brokelyn salutes a probably fake Pog store. [Brokelyn]

- BP to local colleges: Make us a Smart Gun. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Surplus of Manhattan and Brooklyn rentals driving prices down, report says. [DNAinfo]


- Brooklyn woman scammed by modeling agency that asked her to pay for a 'Talent Imaging Package.' [NY1]

- A redwood forest will grow in Downtown Brooklyn (sort of). [Curbed]

- Beat the heat idea: This new (air conditioned) mini golf course is a cheesy fun tribute to Brooklyn. [Brokelyn]


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Coworking Spaces in Brooklyn; Security After Nice Attack; Anthony Bourdain and More Brooklyn Briefs

The "Mayor's Restroom" at an East New York town hall. pic.twitter.com/pXuLeuFjST

— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) July 14, 2016

- Brooklyn driver indicted on manslaughter charges after failure to get his car repaired led to a fatal car crash on Fulton Street in December. [Daily News]

- Young Orthodox Jewish man committed suicide on Wednesday -- the 26th such suicide the New York-area's Orthodox community over past ten months. [Forward]

- Squibb Park Bridge to reopen next spring, 50 percent less bouncy. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- K2 protest held outside Bed-Stuy deli. [CBS]

- A complete list of Brooklyn coworking spaces — locales where you can rent a desk or office by the day, week, or month. [Brownstoner]

- Gov. Cuomo: After Nice attack, NY law enforcement stepping up security at airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit. [Twitter]

- Globe-trotting foodophile Anthony Bourdain will perform "brutally honest" monologue
 The Hunger at BAM in late November. [Gothamist]

- The historic Lundy’s building on Emmons Avenue continues to deteriorate, despite promises from the owner to patch up the property. [Sheepshead Bites]

- The  Jalopy Theater is putting on Dump Trump Night, a musical revue of satirical songs. [Brokelyn]

- Woman, 60, beaten and raped in Brooklyn building's boiler room by man in maintenance uniform. [Daily News]


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This Is What a Subway Train Masturbator Looks Like

WANTED: Male 20’s for public lewdness on the N train in Brooklyn. Call #800577TIPS w/info. @NYPDTransit pic.twitter.com/OSs6OIZiZG

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) June 28, 2016

The NYPD released the above photo of a man who exposed himself to a woman and masturbated on the N train.

The individual is described as a black man, between 25 and 30 years old; last seen wearing a red baseball cap, a white t-shirt, white shorts and black and white sneakers.

More details about the incident at Sheepshead Bites.


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Murder in Sheepshead Bay; Boro's Cheapest Gyms; and More Brooklyn Briefs

A man and a woman have been found dead inside a Brooklyn apartment, police say https://t.co/QMabWlK3Bc pic.twitter.com/jH7gr3Y9X6

— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) January 4, 2016

- A man and his girlfriend have been found dead inside a bloody Sheepshead Bay Houses apartment late Sunday (above). Police have taken the dead woman’s 15-year-old daughter into custody, but no arrests yet. [CBS]

- Brooklyn restaurant getting rid of tipping, paying servers $27 an hour. [PIX11]

- ICYMI: 100-story building is moving in next to Juniors. [TimeOut]

- Cops nabbed a Brooklyn gang member who pistol-whipped his ex-girlfriend Friday near their 1-year-old daughter. [NY Daily News]

- Guide to 17 of Brooklyn's cheapest gyms for 2016. [Brooklyn Magazine]

- Trappers break city law, release Brooklyn's hoard of raccoon invaders -- in Brooklyn. [Orange Co. Register]

- Two teenage boys were nabbed for brutally beating a man in Brooklyn were each ordered held on $25,000 bail. [NY Daily News]


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Perv Brooklyn HS Teacher Gets 5 Years; Ammo Bill Rubs Gun Owners Wrong Way; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Assault Rifle Recovered In Brooklyn - https://t.co/Bll7hzjIzC pic.twitter.com/KkGVktKOmY

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 23, 2015

- Perv’ Brooklyn high school teacher who preyed on teen students can never teach again under plea deal. [NY Daily News]

- Brooklyn lawmakers' bill to strictly limit the sale of ammo across NYS has garnered negative comments from gun enthusiasts. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Residents have launched a campaign to save the Fifth Ave. Key Food grocery store, slated for development as usual. [DNAinfo]

- Emergency responders closed down a section of Voorhies Avenue in Sheepshead Bay Tuesday morning after equipment collapsed at the construction site of a 28-story tower. [Sheepshead Bites]

- A large number of registered sex offenders -- including 44 in Brooklyn -- are living in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) buildings. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Shackled Brooklyn man climbs inside hospital bathroom ceiling in NYPD escape attempt -- only to fall on floor. [NY Daily News]

- From a flamingo formal to fireworks: 44 banging Brooklyn New Year’s Eve parties. [Brokelyn]

- The best food neighborhoods in Brooklyn, ranked. (Guess which area is LAST.) [Brooklyn Magazine]


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Lay Off Pizza-Eating Car Crash Witness? And More Brooklyn Briefs

Take a moment to be inspired by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, performing Worthy Is the Lamb.

- The NYC Council approved controversial legislation which will require the city to use tax-payer dollars to pay for security guards at private and religious schools. [Capital NY]

- Capano calls on Sarsour to resign from Community Board 10. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Two men leap to their deaths from the same garage at Kings Plaza Shopping Center, in two unrelated incidents, 4 hours apart. [Sheepshead Bites]

- Should we be shaming the woman who saw that fatal car crash that killed Victoria Nicodemus, 30, of Brooklyn Heights, and walked away eating pizza? [Slate]

- The unlicensed driver who killed Victoria Nicodemus had been cited for speeding through school zones three times last month. [DNAinfo]

- After San Bernardino, NYC officials push city to divest from gun makers. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Street artist wraps Williamsburg bar, shut down Sunday in the face of an explosive rent increase, in “Gentrification in Progress” caution tape. [Patch]

- Two shootings in Brooklyn last night. [NY Daily News]

- Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams plans to run for mayor of New York City at some point in the not-so-distant future. [Patch]

- PHOTOS: All hands fire at 66 St. in Brooklyn. [NY Buff]

- Brownstoner has a list of every Brooklyn-branded thing on Earth. [Brownstoner]


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Hasidic Jews Smuggling Pot; Doughnut Plant Opening Near Barclays; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Site of Doughnut Plant, 245 Flatbush. Photo ©2014 Google

 - ‘Not So Undercover’: Good samaritan skirts law to repaint Brooklyn Heights. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Hearing coming up for Brooklyn Hasidic Jews accused of trying to smuggle marijuana from El Paso. [El Paso Times]

- The Montague Street BID is organizing a bunch of holiday events in Brooklyn Heights, including a photo op with Santa, a classical concert at St. Ann’s Church and caroling. [Brownstoner]

- The best outdoor holiday markets. [NY Daily News]

- The Sheepshead Bay – Plumb Beach Civic Association will meet Tuesday, December 2, at 7:45pm to discuss the homeless shelter that has opened in the former Windjammer motel. [Sheepshead Bites]

- Eater creates a list of 10 old-fashioned Italian-American restaurants to try in Brooklyn. [Eater]

- BP Eric Adams wants to build thousands of affordable apartments on stalled or challenged sites ranging from rail yards to parking lots. [WSJ]

- Doughnut Plant to open Brooklyn outpost Wednesday -- near Barclays. [DNAinfo]


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Community Boos NYU LICH Fail; Dock Street DUMBO Ginormous; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Brooklyn community groups, nurses, officials slam NYU failure to keep LICH ER promise. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Developer replaces big, unpopular Sheepshead Bay condo plan with plan for bigger condo. [Sheepshead Bites] via [Brokelyn]

- New rendering shows how overwhelming the new Dock Street building in DUMBO is. [DumboNYC]

- Michael Grimm: Foreign policy expert. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Kensington science teacher arrested, accused of sexually abusing five of his students at P.S. 249. [Daily News]

- Two panels on race in Brooklyn. [Brownstoner]

- Crown Heights North 7th Annual House Tour on Oct. 4. [CHN]

- This is what chestnuts look like on a tree. [MatthewWills]

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Mad As Hell? Tuesday Is Primary Day and Your Vote Will Actually Do Something

Don't like hospitals and libraries closing? How about crowded schools or condos going up in your park? So few people vote in primaries that the ones who do have the strength of many. So vote, and rule the world.

Tuesday is #NYCPrimary. Not sure who to vote for or who @superwuster is? For full wrap-up of #Brooklyn races, visit http://t.co/wlhVnajpw2
— Brooklyn Daily Eagle (@BklynEagle) September 8, 2014

Brooklyn 2014 Primary Guide

- Brooklyn cyclist may have found her hit and run driver, but cops too busy to question him.  [Gothamist]

- Illegal pink clothing bins are popping up all over Gowanus. [PMFA]

- Real estate agent boldly re-imagines Bed-Stuy without black people. [Brokelyn]

- In related news, two non-white Brooklyn women tired of 'white people moving into the area' force tenants out at gunpoint. [NY Daily News]

- Brooklyn libraries to have longer hours. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- NYPD launches crackdown on drivers illegally passing school buses. [Sheepshead Bites]

- Drag kings and queens wigged out at the cross-dressing fest Bushwig over the weekend in Bushwick. [Brooklyn Paper]

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Power Out in Sheepshead Bay; New Life for reBar; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Brooklyn Heights Cinema headed to the infamous reBar in DUMBO. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Contractor finds two hand grenades at a job site in Bushwick. [News12]

- Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced arrest of four employees of the Northern Manor Adult Day in Brooklyn, and $6.5 million fine. [Schneiderman]

- Zephyr Teachout celebrates court victory over Cuomo in Brooklyn, pushes for debate. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- More than 500 customers lose power in Sheepshead Bay Tuesday night. [Con Ed]

- A cautionary post: "If I go to Brooklyn, will I be just another old hipster?"  [Migukn]

- In Brooklyn in the 1800s, "You would be surprised at the large number of valuables found in the city’s dumping grounds," an ofal collector said. Besides silver teaspoons, shoes and clothing, dead babies "were not an uncommon occurrence." [Afflictor]

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Chaos Breaks Out On Q Train in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn Thursday Night

From the scanner:

All hell broke loose in a car on the Q line in Brooklyn around 9 p.m. Thursday night.

The first caller to 9-1-1 was a third party, the dispatcher told cops. The caller said that "20 male blacks" were assaulting passengers in a car on the train, which was stopped at the platform at the Kings Highway stop between East 15th and East 16th Streets (Midwood /Sheepshead Bay).

 The cops taking the call asked, "How many?"

Dispatcher: "The third party says 20."

Shortly thereafter, a call came in to 9-1-1 from the train conductor.

He confirmed 20 males blacks had stormed car 9047 and were "assaulting the customers."

Cops were heading to the scene when another call came in saying the gang had left the Q train and were now headed for the B train.

 That's all we heard; will fill you in if there's an update.

(On top of that, the Q train was rated the dirtiest train in NYC.)



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NYPD Chasing Perp Armed with Two Knives in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

By Kecko, Flickr

From the scanner:

Police declared a Level 1 Perp Search at roughly 12:40 a.m. Tuesday morning at 261 Jersome Ave.

Cops are looking for a black male, age 25, 6'5" tall, wearing a black T-shirt and blue shorts. He fled on foot in an unknown direction.

Caution: He's armed with two knives.

Nothing further.


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Seizure on Fishing Boat; EMS Rushes to Pier 9, Sheepshead Bay

By Kecko, Flickr

From the scanner:
A call came in to NYC's 9-1-1 at 1:41 p.m. Saturday afternoon that a person had a seizure on a fishing boat out of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Callers requested EMS on standby at Pier 9.

* EMS responded at 1:43 p.m. that they were on the way.

* Marine 3 called in at 1:48 p.m. with news that they had stationed a person on the boat, and the boat was headed back to the dock.

* Marine 3 was told at 1:51 p.m. that Engine 321 and EMS had arrived at the pier.

* 1:54 p.m.: Dispatcher told Marine 3 that EMS and FDNY were awaiting the boat at Pier 9, on Emmons Avenue off E. 22 St.

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8 in Brooklyn Crash; LICH Closure Plan; Missing Teen; and More Brooklyn Briefs

News 12 was mistaken in their hospital story. See below. Google.

- 8 hospitalized after crash on Fourth Avenue at Belt Parkway . . . ambulance had to go to the Bronx?  [News 12]
UPDATE: News 12 has the story wrong. According to FDNY, the victims were taken to Lutheran, not Lincoln. 

- Two shot, one stabbed in East New York. [7 online]

- Cops shot and killed a man inside a Prospect-Lefferts Gardens apartment on Sunday. [NY Daily News]

- SUNY finally gets around to releasing its closure plan for Long Island College Hospital. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A search is underway for a missing Brooklyn Tech student. [7 online]

- Police are searching for a missing autistic teen last seen Friday at a Sheepshead Bay train station. [WSJ]

-  Window concert today in Brooklyn Heights. [BHB]

- 102-year-old pool shark. [NY Daily News]

- Sophie live at Grasslands. Finally, pictures. [Noisey.Vice]

- Assemblywoman Jacobs to retire after 36 years. [JP Updates]

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Ratner Ready to Stack Mods; Mob Attack; TEDxGowanus and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Forest City Ratner will begin stacking its constructed modular units to form a 32-story Atlantic Yards building next week. [TRD]

- The city has finally agreed to make half of NYC's taxis wheelchair accessible. [NY Times]

- Developers are installing composters in every apartment at Pierhouse, the first new building in Brooklyn Bridge Park. [NY Daily News]

- Gowanus real estate market is cooking as DUMBO prices some out. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Prospect Park skating complex opens Dec. 20. [Brooklyn Paper]

- Bike messenger Krys Blakemore, facing her fourth operation after getting hit by a car, needs a little help from the community. [Carroll Gardens Patch]

- After fighting false arrest, Sheepshead man battles neighbors and Brooklyn DOB to keep his own property. [Sheepshead Bites]

- Police are looking for 7 - 20 men and women who attacked two people at a Dekalb Avenue subway station in Brooklyn. [NY1]

- The first TEDxGowanus will take place on January 26th, 2014. [PMFA]

- Bill Bratton says he's OK with working out of unused trailor. [Politicker]

- Senator Chuck Schumer lives like a college frat boy. [Gawker]

- Smoking pot probably causes man boobs. [CNN]

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Cop in Carroll Park; Lundy's on Fire; Beyoncé and More Brooklyn Briefs

- After Monday's rumble in Carroll Park, a cop is now stationed there from 3 - 6 p.m. [PMFA]

- Fire at the historic Lundy’s building in Sheepshead Bay. [Brooklyn Daily]

- Ex-Domino Sugar owner fights $185M Two Trees sale on appeal. [TRD]

- VIDEO: Beyoncé grants a wish for handicapped Brooklyn author Atiba Clarke. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Japanese rock trio The 5.6.7.8.'s (who famously appeared in Kill Bill) are set to play on October 27 at The Bell House. [Brooklyn Vegan]

- De Blasio says he will 'Wacksky Yassky If Elected Mayorsky' [BHB]

- Brooklyn paranormal group putting together a ghost busting squad. [Brokelyn]

- It's hockey night in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Why going to the hospital could be the deadliest thing you ever do. [Pro Publica]

- How the message "You retard" was printed inside the cap of a bottle of Vitaminwater. [Yahoo] 

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Little Houses, Real Clowns and More Brooklyn Briefs

- This couple's shipping container house in Williamsburg is probably nicer than your apartment. DNAinfo

- An employment center completely destroyed by Hurricane Sandy was rebuilt by immigrants who congregate there to find day jobs. Brooklyn Eagle

- You can meet real clowns from the circus at Applebees tonight. Sheepshead Bites 

- Outed: A stretch of Crown Heights has been masquerading as Prospect Heights. DNAinfo 

- Sequester will slash $3 billion from Sandy aid package. Bensonhurst Bean

- Quite the to-do for Eric Adams on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall on Sunday. Brooklyn Eagle 

- New York homeless shelters had a banner winter. NY Magazine

- 13 adorably teeny tiny houses. Gizmodo 

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Brooklyn Petitions: LICH, Pier 6, Schools and TJ's

Like to sign petitions? Here are four Brooklynites may be interested in:

- Sign a petition for year-round ferry service to Pier 6 in Brooklyn.

- Sign a petition to keep Long Island College Hospital open.

- Sign a petition to build a new elementary school in Downtown Brooklyn.

- Want a Trader Joe's in Sheepshead Bay? Sign the petition.

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