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Thieves steal victim’s necklace on Smith St.
84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–
DUMBO–Boerum Hill–
Downtown
Necklace lout
Two dirtbags snatched
a guy’s necklace on Smith
Street on Jan. 29.
The victim told police
that the crooks threatened
him with a box cutter near
Dean Street at 3:15 am, before
snatching his metal chain.
Teen attack!
A gang of delinquents
jumped a guy at a Concord
Street playground on Jan.
31.
The victim told police
that he was playing basketball
when a parade of teens
approached at Golconda Playground
near Prince Street at
4:20 pm, before the scumbags
beat him up — taking
his cellphone, headphones,
and fanny pack.
Strangling
Police arrested a man they
suspect of attacking his girlfriend
at his Willoughby Street
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apartment on Jan. 28.
The victim told police that
her lover allegedly strangled
her and slammed her head to
the ground inside the apartment
between Duffield and
Bridge streets at 2 am.
Cops caught up with the
suspect and put him under arrest
on felony assault charges
three days later, according to
police reports.
Stray bullet
A gunman’s bullet grazed
a teen on Fulton Street on
Feb. 2.
The 15-year-old victim
heard a pop and realized he
had been shot near Hanover
Place at 3:40 pm — sustaining
a minor abrasion on his
elbow.
The victim’s mother took
him to Brooklyn Hospital, and
cops later found two shell casings
near the shooting location,
according to police.
Apple thief!
A filcher nabbed three iPhones
from an Atlantic Avenue
cellphone store on Jan.
30.
Witnesses told cops that the
looter grabbed $2,800 worth
of phones from the store’s display
case near Fourth Avenue
at 11:15 am, before fleeing.
Carjacker
A pirate hijacked a man’s
car on Nassau Street on Feb.
2.
The victim told police he
was picking someone up,
when the wrong passenger got
in the car near Navy Street at
7:20 am, but when the driver
told the purloiner to leave, the
brigand jumped into the front
seat of the black Toyota Camry
and sped off.
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Elder abuse
A savage punched an elderly
lady on Fulton Street
on Jan. 27.
The 70-year-old victim told
police that she tried to break
up a fight between her grandson
and the brute at Cumberland
Street at 6:30 pm, when
the perp punched her in the
head.
The victim went to Brooklyn
Hospital for a check up,
according to police.
Med marauder
A pillager robbed a woman
at a Fulton Street methadone
clinic on Jan. 28.
The victim told police that
she came out of the bathroom
of the medical facility at Waverly
Avenue at 6 am when the
brute pushed her back into a
stall and grabbed her bag —
before dashing away.
What a scum!
A ruffian held up a man at
a Washington Avenue park
on Jan. 28.
The victim told police that
the criminal told him he had a
gun near Underwood Park at
Lafayette Avenue at around
8:50 pm, before yanking
the victim’s phone and wallet
— and punching him in
the neck.
Subway swipe
Three knaves ambushed a
teen at a Fulton Street subway
stop on Jan. 28.
The 15-year-old victim
told police that the prowlers
went through his pockets at
the station near Washington
Avenue at around 8:30 pm,
making off with his phone,
headphones and keys.
Lovers’ quarrel
Police arrested a man they
suspect of smacking his boyfriend
with a hard drive at the
suspect’s Lafayette Avenue
apartment on Feb. 2.
The victim told police that
he and his flame were having
an argument near Grand Avenue
at 2:30 pm, which escalated
when the suspect allegedly
smacked him with the
electronic equipment, before
punching him twice and
threatening to drug him.
Cops caught up with the
suspect at 3:05 pm and put
him under arrest on felony
robbery charges, according
to authorities.
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76TH PRECINCT
Carroll Gardens-Cobble
Hill–Red Hook
Plate pirate
A bandit nabbed two license
plates from a car parked
on Walcott Street between
Feb. 1 and Feb. 2.
The victim told police that
that looter stole the New York
plates from her car parked between
Otsego and Dwight
streets sometime between
11 pm on Feb. 1 and 5 pm
the following day.
Bike bandit
A thief nabbed a bike from
Union Street on Jan. 30.
The victim told cops that
the crook cut the chain on
the $200 bike that had been
locked up on the corner of
Hicks Street between 1 am
and 8 am and rode off.
Cell hell
A thief stole a cellphone
from outside a Smith Street
apartment sometime between
Jan. 27 and Feb. 2.
The victim told police that
the $79 Boost Mobile phone
had been delivered to her door
inside the apartment building
between Third and Fourth
streets, before the bandit stole
it sometime between 10 am on
Jan 27 and 4 pm on Feb. 1.
AirPod punk
A pirate snagged a package
on Bond Street containing
a pair of Apple AirPods
sometime between Jan. 27
and Feb. 1.
The victim told cops that
the looter stole the $272 earbuds
from outside the building
on the corner of First Avenue
sometime between 11:58
pm on Jan. 27 and 4 pm on
Feb. 1.
— Rose Adams
78TH PRECINCT
Park slope
Basement burglar
Some criminal robbed
a bike from a Third Avenue
apartment building on
Jan. 24.
The victim told police
that the lout broke into the
basement near 11th Street at
around 8 am and stole the twowheeled
transport.
Whole crimes
Cops arrested a guy for
allegedly shoplifting from a
Third Avenue Whole Foods
on Jan. 30.
An employee told police
that the alleged shoplifter put
24 dollars worth of vegetables
into a reusable shopping bag
at the grocer near Third Street
at 12:15 pm, before trying to
flee without paying.
Authorities arrested the
suspect and charged him
with petit larceny.
Fancy shoes
Police cuffed a guy for
allegedly shoplifting from a
Flatbush Avenue Shopping
Mall on Jan. 29.
A store employee told police
that the alleged thief put
a $150 pair of shoes into his
backpack and tried to walk
out of the mall near Atlantic
Avenue.
Cops arrested the suspect
and charged him with petit
larceny.
Bye-cycle
Some worm stole a bike on
Fourth Avenue on Jan. 29.
The victim told police that
he locked his ride to a pole
near Pacific Street at 4:15
pm, buyt the thief had stolen
it by the time he returned
at 7:15 pm.
— Ben Verde
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By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
Less than a week after
Bushwick Councilman Rafael
Espinal resigned, an insurgent
progressive has emerged as a
contender to fill the vacated
legislative post.
“I am someone who comes
out of movements for social
justice and I have been working
in the community to give
young people good jobs,” said
35-year-old Sandy Nurse.
Nurse, the co-founder of
the local community venue
Mayday Space, had been
running for the 54 Assembly
district to unseat incumbent
lawmaker Erik Dilan
(D–Bushwick) — until
she changed course and declared
her candidacy for the
37th Council district in the
wake of Espinal’s sudden announcement.
Since her announcement,
Nurse has racked up a number
of progressive endorsements,
including State Sen.
Julia Salazar (D–Bushwick),
Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez
(D–Williamsburg),
Councilmen Antonio Reynoso
(D–Bushwick) and
Carlos Menchaca (D–Sunset
Park), along with social
justice groups Make the Road
Action and New York Communities
for Change.
Nurse has lived in Bushwick
since 2009 and brings
with her a record of community
activism — including
founding the bike-powered
food waste hauling and composting
service BK ROT in
2013, which is staffed mostly
by young people of color.
The upstart candidate
swore off campaign contributions
from real estate corporations
and limited liability
companies, and said she
would take on big developers
in the district — which covers
Cypress Hills, Bushwick,
Brownsville, Ocean Hill and
East New York.
She supported the plan put
forward by locals known as
the Bushwick Community
Plan as an alternative to Mayor
Bill de Blasio’s proposed rezoning
for Bushwick, before
City Hall killed the plans because
they didn’t accept the
community scheme.
“Rezoning is one tool in the
toolkit, there are many more,”
she said. “I think we can go
deeper and there’s plenty of
money in the city we can get
from the ultra rich.”
Her run challenges the
establishment Democratic
Party in Brooklyn — which
threw its weight behind
Darma Diaz, the party’s female
district leader for the
54th Assembly district, and
a close ally of Erik Dilan, reports
City and State.
The candidates will face
off in a non-partisan special
election on April 28, which
aligns with New York’s
presidential primary — after
which the winner will
serve out the remainder of
Espinal’s term until the end
of the year, and a primary
and general election for the
following term are expected
to follow this year.
The process mirrors the ascendancy
of Councilwoman
Farah Louis (D–Flatbush),
who won a special election
for the 45th Council last year
after Jumaane Williams was
elected to the citywide public
advocate role.
Espinal quit public office
on Jan. 26 to head up
the non-profit Freelancers
Union, abandoning his post
in the council.
Sandy Nurse is running for Councilman Rafael Espinal’s
vacated seat.
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