Heavy Security in NYC Since Manchester; Fleet Week 2017; Political Concerns; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Surveillance VIDEO captures the moment a SUV jumped the curb in Brooklyn missing multiple children playing on flushing ave pic.twitter.com/gZiFd9xjTB

— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) May 23, 2017

- Following Manchester bombing, NYPD ramps up security. Expect heavy weapons teams, detection dogs and other measures. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Police have arrested a man who allegedly groped a woman on the N train, followed her off of the train and then attempted to rape her. [Gothamist]

- A 1-year-old girl was critically hurt after she was struck by a vehicle on a Greenpoint street. [Daily News] 

- Fleet Week New York kicks off Wednesday a.m. with the Parade of Ships. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- An overloaded power strip was to blame for the May 10 fire at the Brooklyn Criminal Court building that injured several firefighters and others on site. [NY Law Journal]

- Two people were arrested near the Brooklyn College campus Tuesday, after a robbery victim allegedly came back for retaliation. [CBS]

- Brooklyn BP Eric Adams wants to legalize 8 a.m. alcohol sales on Sundays as one of the ways to boost the booming industry. [NY Daily News]

- 24-year-old man was stabbed with a pair of scissors in a Brownsville homeless shelter. [Daily News]

- Ex-C.I.A. chief reveals mounting concern over Trump campaign and Russia. [NYT]

- Chocolate may help prevent irregular heartbeat. [LiveScience]



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Brooklyn's U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Applauds Appointment of Special Prosecutor in Trump Case

Wednesday night, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a member of House Democratic leadership and the Judiciary Committee, released the following statement concerning the appointment of former FBI director Robert. S. Mueller to oversee the investigation into possible illegal collusion between the Trump team and Putin’s Russia:

“The appointment of the special prosecutor to oversee the criminal investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible illegal collusion with Russia is an important step in the right direction. America can now have a greater degree of confidence that the investigation will be fair, impartial and comprehensive. No man is above the law in this country. If Donald Trump broke it, he must be vigorously prosecuted without fear or favor.”

Mueller is considered by both Republicans and Democrats to be a serious, highly competent man.

(According to Politico,  some conservatives are hinting that Vice President Pence looks like a particularly good alternative to Trump  right now, especially as the Justice Department moves ahead with a special prosecutor for the FBI’s Russia probe.)


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Drag Queens at the Library, ePrix Coming to Brooklyn, Woman Who Hired a Hit Man and More Brooklyn Briefs

You can walk across the Brooklyn Bridge with Bill Murray next month: https://t.co/38NrPIAyjr pic.twitter.com/qJGoW8o2UR

— Time Out New York (@TimeOutNewYork) May 16, 2017

- Brooklyn Public Library brings drag queens, kids together for story hour. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn judge sanctions city lawyer for 600 objections in disastrous deposition of NYPD cop. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn Seltzer Boys delivers NY nostalgia in a bottle. [Crains]

- International ePrix Formula E Car Championship coming to Brooklyn expected to draw thousands. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Retired NYPD cops upset about overturned Brooklyn convictions – and millions in settlement money. [Pix11]

- 17-year-old stabbed in the neck outside East NY high school. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn woman accused of hiring hit man to kill husband to obtain insurance money faces life without parole. [Daily News]

- Residents suing the city over the planned opening of a controversial Crown Heights homeless shelter say they’re close to an agreement. [DNAinfo]

- NYCHA trains residents for well-paying jobs in construction at Brooklyn's City Tech. [Brooklyn Eagle]

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Wed., NYC: U.S. Congress Members to Address Trump's Firing of FBI Director James Comey

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— Stone Cold Truth (@StoneColdTruth) May 9, 2017

Today, Wednesday, at 11 a.m., New York City congressional delegation members will address Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey and what their release calls "the growing constitutional crisis being inflicted on our democracy by Donald Trump."

Where: Foley Square, 111 Worth St, New York

Delegation includes Brooklyn's Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Nydia Velazquez (NY-7), Gregory Meeks (NY-05) and Adriano Espaillat (NY-13).

This follows Tuesday's uproar over Trump's firing of Comey. Among other officials, Sen. Chuck Schumer has called for a special prosecutor to look into Trump camp's ties to Russia, which Comey was investigating.

THe tweet above is from Trump advisor Roger Stone, also under investigation.


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Bad Date Arrested; the Turtle Lady of Williamsburg; and More Brooklyn Briefs

This is how the Brooklyn bridge was painted in 1915. pic.twitter.com/bJkqpDok7g

— Darwin Award 🔞 (@AwardsDarwin) March 21, 2017

- Bad date: A woman who murdered another woman in Russia was discovered living a glamorous life in Brooklyn, drugging and robbing men she met on dating websites. [CBS]

- A Brooklyn couple who fleeced New Yorkers out of funeral money for a 5-year-old boy who's actually alive were arrested again while using a child in another scam. [DNAinfo]

- PHOTOS: The Turtle Lady thrives in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Missing Brooklyn man with autism found in Mexico. [Pix11]

-  VIDEO: A 60-something-year-old woman walked into a jewelry store in Williamsburg and took four diamond pins while a 60-year-old man stood by as a lookout. [NBC]

- Judge in El Chapo case limits release of info, orders appointment of ‘firewall’ attorney. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Young Brooklyn woman wonders if she was in suspected serial killer’s grasp. [Pix11]

- VIDEO: Assemblywoman Diana Richardson took to Facebook Live on Thursday morning to blast Mayor Bill de Blasio, city hall and others. [Patch]

S.A.D. Party 2017 will raise money for Planned Parenthoo.

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4 Missing Sisters Found; Cop with 'Anger Issues' Blows Away Neighbor; Heights Library About to be Demolished; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Photo courtesy Brooklyn North

NEW: All four missing sisters have been safely located - @NYPDBklynNorth https://t.co/y2FNXjDnWI

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 6, 2017

More on this story about the missing kids at ABC.

- Former police officer with "anger issues" shoots, critically wounds neighbor outside Greenpoint apartment building. [Daily News]

- NYC approves demolition of Brooklyn Heights Library, paving way for luxury tower. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A Brooklyn Supreme Court justice says he was harassed in Borough Park on Sunday by a man who shouted “you f–king Jew.” [NY Post]

- Powerful ‘RESIST’ sign illuminates Gowanus building. [Brooklyn Pulp]

- There's a parking space  in Park Slope for sale for $300,000. [CBS]

- Brooklyn-Queens Connector panel to be held at Brooklyn Law School. [amNY]

- Owl’s Head Park killer still at large. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A Danish starrchitect's firm, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), has signed a 50,000-square-foot lease at Two Trees' 45 Main Street in DUMBO. [Commercial Observer]

- Many Brooklyn and New York officials trash Trump’s reissued travel ban. [Brooklyn Eagle

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Today: Last Day to Sign Up for ObamaCare; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- History: The wine cellars hidden under the Brooklyn Bridge. [NPR]

- Warning about phone scammers asking, "Can you hear me?" Don't answer! [abc7ny]

- ICYMI:Brooklyn judge defies a president. [Brooklyn Eagle] 

- ICYMI: Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, after she refused to defend the president’s executive order on immigration. [NYT]  He replaced her with Dana Boente. [Washington Post]

- Melania and Barron run errands in Manhattan despite city protests over Trump immigration ban. [Daily Mail]

- It took Donald Trump's refugee ban to give Lyft a win over Uber. [Slate]

- Today is the last day to sign up for Obamacare! [Affordable Care]

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Women Are Getting It Done in Fighting Trump's Craziness

Women have been noticeably stepping up to the plate in saying no to Trump ....

From the attorneys volunteering at airports, to  the female judges issuing stays on Trump's immigration executive order, to the (now former) attorney general of the U.S. sacked by Trump for putting the Constitution ahead of his demands (weird plot twist here), to the Women's Marchers on Washington, NYC and countless towns and cities around the country, women are certainly doing their share.

Leaving Dulles now to file from home. Gender disparity was striking: probably 70 percent of lawyers volunteering there are young women.

— Matt Ford (@fordm) January 30, 2017

If you're going to go out, go out like Sally Yates.#RESISTANCE

— TheNewDeal (@TheNewDeal) January 31, 2017

Four female judges were the heroes of the fight against Trump’s executive order: https://t.co/cC9ySlNNX5 pic.twitter.com/jOBoQuPb0S

— Slate (@Slate) January 31, 2017

All we can say is ... Yay, women, gettin' it done!

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Road Rager Runs Down Boy; Glowing Sex Stuff; El Chapo; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Happy birthday, Sam Cooke!

Photo: Poster from when Otis and Sam played together at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, NY in 1963 #SamCooke pic.twitter.com/m2cpLfr6mc

— Otis Redding (@OtisRedding) January 22, 2017

- Road-rage driver hits boy, 14, on Greenpoint sidewalk, then yells at other driver as boy writhes in pain. [Daily News]

- A feminist-sex-shop-gift-shop-book-shop-mini-gallery operates behind a glittery curtain in a laundromat in Bushwick. It specializes in "cosmic, glowing sex stuff."  [TCP]

- No tunnel out for Mexican drug lord El Chapo, facing justice in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- 15-year-old shot in East Flatbush, 2 suspects flee: NYPD. [NBC NY]

- East Flatbush man arrested for hiding a dismembered corpse in the  Bronx. [NY1]

- A Brooklyn solution to Islam's law forbidding women from showing their hair to men outside of their own families, even while getting a haircut.  [Refinery29]

- Nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus, and 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers, a national survey indicates. [KRQE]

-  Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in an op-ed that insurance companies in New York will have to continue offering birth control for no co-pay even if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. [Gothamist]

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Kings County Hospital's Psych Ward Not a Horror Anymore; Sen. Sampson Gets 5 Years; Sanctuary Restaurants; and More Brooklyn Briefs

☃
🌨
☃ Snowy Brooklyn Bridge🌨☃ pic.twitter.com/GDzBeyPlvc

— Heather (@Amber02150) January 18, 2017

(As a commenter pointed out, this is actually the Manhattan Bridge.)

- The federal government says Kings County Hospital's Psych Ward has been transformed from a dangerous, dilapidated mess to a modern, healthy facility. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- State Sen. John Sampson was sentenced to five years in prison for obstructing justice, lying to FBI. [Daily News]

- 15-year-old released in 2014 murder of Brooklyn rabbi in Miami because of lack of evidence. [abc7]

- Sanctuary Restaurant Movement launches in Brooklyn. [Kings County Politics]

- Officials were set to unveil plans for new schools and new seats in Brooklyn's fast-growing District 15 at a public forum last night. [DNAinfo]

- Eric Garner case before Brooklyn grand jury. [Newsday]

- The NYPD is on the hunt for a serial robber with a penchant for perfumes. [nbcNY]

- 16-year-old boy busted for threatening 13-year-old girl with BB gun at Brownsville school. [Daily News]

- A man who was viciously stabbed at a Crown Heights deli over 50 cents said he’s lucky to be alive. [News10]




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Moskowitz as Trump Ed Secretary? Cops Look for Subway Attacker, and More Brooklyn Briefs

Tribute to #AkaiGurley, killed 2 yrs ago by NYPD, projected onto BAM Peter Sharp Building in Brooklyn. [pics: @decolonize_this] pic.twitter.com/n7obBah7Mu

— Ash J (@AshAgony) November 17, 2016

- Controversial Success charter school leader Eva Moskowitz in the running for Trump education secretary. [Politico]

- Police are looking for this guy, who punched a 34 year-old female victim in the face multiple times on a stairwell inside the Avenue M “Q” train subway. [NYPD News]

- Man loses chance at posting $1M bail in Brooklyn after his tattoos connect him to Russian mafia. [Daily News]

- Everything you need to know about the L Train shutdown. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Yep, there's a Jewish Comic Con, and it's in Brooklyn. [Jewish Week]

- Man, 68, beaten and stabbed at Brooklyn bus stop. [Daily News]

- Gov. Cuomo launches hotline to report escalating hate crimes. [Brooklyn Eagle]

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New School Opens in DUMBO; Naked Man Takes a Stroll; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Locked out @LIUBrooklyn faculty picket campus on first day of fall classes. https://t.co/TiM3y84U6X #Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/Qq2y672lLN

— Brooklyn Daily Eagle (@BklynEagle) September 7, 2016

- Ex-Bloods gangbanger says J’Ouvert is Brooklyn’s ‘Purge.' [NY Post]

- A new middle school opens in DUMBO, and people are pretty excited about it. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The MTA is looking for artists to design some new murals for a few Brooklyn stations. [Brokelyn]

- Brooklyn prosecutor eyed in possible coverup leading to man’s conviction for 1983 murder. [Daily News]

- NYPD refutes "deeply flawed" Inspector General’s Quality-of-Life report. [NYPD News]

- Surveillance video captured a naked man’s leisurely stroll through the streets of Brooklyn. [NBC]


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Brooklyn Judge's Political Payback; Eating in Bay Ridge; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Brooklyn: @NYPDSpecialops Harbor units operating near the Williamsburg bridge for an EDP in the water. pic.twitter.com/Dg9fBlsKvY

— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) August 31, 2016

- A longtime state judge in Brooklyn is being essentially forced off the bench, and she says in a lawsuit it’s political payback for refusing to do the bidding of the Brooklyn Democratic party. [NY1]

- Terrible news: They have built so many new apartments in Brooklyn that rents might not go up as fast as they usually do. Damn. Crap. [Deadspin]

- Brooklyn gun runner who used Chinatown buses to bring 112 firearms to New York sentenced to 17 years. [NY Daily News]

- Here are ten things you need to eat in Bay Ridge. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Water main break under Brooklyn Bridge on Manhattan side laves hundreds without water. [DNAinfo]

- New development proposed for Brooklyn's Broadway Triangle. [Gothamist]

- A naked man attempted to rape a woman on a Brooklyn street late Monday night. [Pix11]

- When your laptop breaks: How to pull off a full workday on the BK Public Library’s free computers. [Brokelyn]


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HuffPost Mini-Documentary Shines Light on Wrongful Conviction Cases in Brooklyn

There are currently more than 100 wrongful conviction cases under review in Brooklyn. In HuffPost Originals mini-documentary, "Stolen Time," Alyona Minkovski talked to three men whose lives were upended by wrongful convictions.

Sundhe Moses, Kevin Smith and Derrick Hamilton all spent years in prison after being convicted of heinous crimes. However, despite all the facts pointing to a wrongful conviction, formal exoneration for these victims is a long and arduous process.

Retired Detective Louis Scarcella is connected to 72 of the cases that are being reviewed by the Brooklyn DA, including those of Sundhe, Kevin and Derrick.

Witness coercion, false confessions and violence are just some of the allegations brought up when discussing the detective and according to Hamilton it's time for Scarcella to pay the price. "He deserves to go to jail. He deserves to see what he did to so many other people. What it feels like to be isolated from your family."

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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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Lawsuit Attempting to Halt Sale of Brooklyn Heights Library is Dismissed by Judge

Rendering of library development courtesy of Marvel Architects

 Love Brooklyn Libraries, Inc., a group that had sought to stop the development of the Brooklyn Heights Library, lost its case in court, the Brooklyn Eagle reports.

The group, headed by Brooklyn activist Marsha Rimler, had called the project’s environmental review inadequate. The court dismissed the claims, saying the city had dotted all the environmental  i's and crossed all the t's.

The court also ruled that the lawsuit was not served within the required deadline, and that any extension of the deadline for service would be unwarranted. See Eagle for more.

Judge rules against group trying to halt sale of Brooklyn Heights Library [Brooklyn Eagle]


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Brooklyn Native Dies Protecting Son in Orlando; Judge Mulls Brooklyn Heights Library Case; More Brooklyn Briefs

- Brooklyn native died protecting her son in Orlando nightclub attack. [Daily News]
- Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is likely going to call Brooklyn home soon. [Daily Caller]

- Judge mulls suit to block sale of Brooklyn Heights Library. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- An East Flatbush park turned bloody Monday afternoon when bullets started flying, striking five teenage boys. [NY Post]

- Brooklyn math professor sired 22 women by giving his sperm to women in little cups at Target. [Forward]

- Diocese of Brooklyn to publish names of pedophile priests on website. [Daily News]

- Seven people were injured in a vehicle crash near Brooklyn College Monday evening. [DNAinfo]

- All the outrageous things Donald Trump said in his anti-terror speech. [Slate]

- The best iPhone aps in the world, according to Apple. [Business Insider]



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Arrest in Brooklyn Bridge Park Killing; Brooklyn Heights Library Hearing; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- The former boyfriend of a woman who died in a shooting outside Brooklyn Bridge Park on Monday night has been arrested for assaulting her the day before she was killed. [DNAinfo]

- A Brooklyn advocacy group is headed to court on Friday in a last-ditch effort to block the sale of the Brooklyn Heights Library to a developer. [Brooklyn Eagle]

-  The new minister of Plymouth Church tells what it's like for a southern Baptist to move to Brooklyn. [Baptist News]

- A Brooklyn judge rejected a motion to overturn the murder conviction of the “Grid Kid Slayer” and denied him a new trial. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn College has largely exonerated two students who spent the last four months being accused of anti-Semitism by their college president. The college could find no witnesses to tie the students to the incident. [Forward]

- These 20-somethings have built a wildly successful business based on nostalgia for the early 2000s. [Business Insider]


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Adorable Kittens Rescued from Suitcase Death; Goodbye Sunny Balzano; and More Brooklyn Briefs

House on DeGraw Street. Photo by MK Metz

- Brooklyn mom charged with murder after 2-year-old girl drowns in bathtub. [Pix11]

- Lawsuit charges: The owner of a trendy Brooklyn nightclub pressured workers into threesomes, boasted about sleeping with customers and freaked out about black patrons. [Daily News]

- Red Hook bids adieu to Sunny Balzano, legendary owner of Red Hook dive bar. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn Flea coming to DUMBO in April. [Gothamist]

- Do you recognize this soon-to-be-demolished Cobble Hill building? [Brownstoner]

- Cops rescue half-dozen adorable kittens stashed in suitcase in Williamsburg. [Daily News]

- Dad arrested after his child was barred from using school bathroom heads to court. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- DOE says PS8 /307 rezoning a success. [Politico]

- Caught on camera: Guy steals a charity box filled with hundreds of dollars meant to send children with cancer to summer camp. [ABC7]

- "Rat Academy" at St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn Heights Saturday. [BHB]

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Gourmet Supermarket Coming to Greenpoint; Iron Maidens Female Weightlifters to Gowanus; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Parents say Brooklyn Tech feels like the "ugly stepchild" of specialized schools. [WNYC]

- ‘Iron Maidens’ all-female weightlifting competition coming to Gowanus. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Hit-and-run epidemic as three people killed, one hurt in three boroughs. [NY Daily News]

- A gourmet supermarket is coming to the north end of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, where thousands of rental apartments are planned. [WSJ]

- New Orleans 'most modern third-world country,' Brooklyn transplants tell website. [NOLA]

- Artists gathered last Sunday for a special nude drawing class with a guest model, rock legend Iggy Pop. The class was organized by the Brooklyn Museum. [e-Flux]

- The circus comes to Barclays, and creates a trailer park along Atlantic Avenue. [Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park]

- Centennial of Jackie Gleason's birth celebrated in Bay Ridge tribute. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A U.S. Air Force veteran heads to Brooklyn federal court this week as one of the first suspected Islamic State supporters in the country to go on trial. [WSJ]

- A man was shot on a subway platform in Crown Heights on Sunday. [NBC]  Another guy was shot in the leg during a robbery in Bed-Stuy on Saturday. [NY Post]

- Oscar winners here. [LA Times] Chris Rock's hi-larious opening monologue. [LA Times]


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