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84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–
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Downtown
Cuffed quartet
Cops arrested four people
for allegedly robbing a guy at
gunpoint on Plymouth Street
on Feb. 5.
The victim told police that
three men and a 17-year-old
girl allegedly jumped him at
Pearl Street at 9:50 pm, and
threatened him by simulating
a gun, before nabbing his
phone, money clip, a bottle of
wine, and camera.
Police caught up with the
suspects nearby and arrested
them.
Heights stabber!
Some villain stabbed a man
on Clark Street on Feb. 4.
The victim told police that
the attacker launched at him,
piercing him several times in
the torso with a black folding
knife near Henry Street
at 6:35 am before fleeing toward
Cadman Plaza.
Road rager
Police arrested a man for
allegedly strangling his girlfriend
on Atlantic Avenue on
Feb. 5.
The victim told police that
her beau allegedly grabbed
her hair and pulled shoved
her into the car during a fit
of road rage near Boerum
Place and Atlantic Avenue
at around 10:40 pm, before
choking her and punching
her in the face.
Police caught up with the
man at 11:40 pm on E. 19th
Street between Cortelyou and
Dorchester roads and charged
him with felony assault.
Package pirates!
Two package thieves barely
escaped police after they were
caught red-handed on Willoughby
Street on Feb. 6.
Security workers saw the
purloiners sneak into the package
room of the building between
Bridge and Lawrence
streets at 3:50 am and called
the police, who arrived on the
scene to find the pirates hightailing
it toward a nearby subway
station.
Music marauder
A filcher snatched a woman’s
wireless headphones on
Bergen Street on Feb. 5.
The victim told police
that the freebooter grabbed
her headphones off her head
at Third Avenue at 6:40 pm,
before running toward Fourth
Avenue.
— Kevin Duggan
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Gun gang
A group of gunmen held up
a guy at the Fulton Street G
train station on Feb. 4.
The victim told police that
the rogues pulled out a gun
and pushed it to his stomach
at S. Portland Avenue at 8 pm,
before snagging his backpack,
phone, smart watch, bracelet,
and wallet.
Bad friend
A malefactor threatened to
stab a friend who allegedly
owed him money at an Myrtle
Avenue bodega on Feb. 6.
The victim told police that
the jerk told him, “Give me
my money before I stab you,”
while simulating a knife in his
jacket at the grocery store at
the corner of Emerson Place
at 6:30 am.
Band of punks
Four teen delinquents
robbed a guy at Fort Greene
Park on Feb. 7.
The victim told police
that he punks jumped him
at Washington Park between
Myrtle and Willoughby avenues
at 9 pm, and stole his
AirPods.
Racist macist
A bigot attacked a woman
at Fort Greene Park on Feb.
7.
The victim told police that
the brute maced her in the
face near Washington Park
and Willoughby Avenue at
5:45 pm, before hitting her
in the head and calling her a
“cracker white bitch.”
Rock in the head
A band of villains pummeled
a guy at Emerson Place
on Feb. 7.
The victim told police that
the six scalawags jumped him
at Willoughby Avenue at 8:20
pm with one of the brutes hitting
the victim in the head
with a rock.
Sub-scoundrel
Cops cuffed a woman for
allegedly punching a subway
maintenance employee at the
Dekalb Avenue subway station
on Feb. 8.
The victim told police that
the suspect allegedly punched
him in the mouth at the underground
stop near Flatbush
Avenue Ext. at 3:10 am.
Police arrested the woman
on the scene 20 minutes later
and charged her with Felony
Assault.
—Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
Carroll Gardens-
Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Gym rat
A bandit stole a girl’s Air-
Pods and cash from a Baltic
Street school gym on
Feb. 10.
The 17-year-old victim told
police that the looter swiped
$68 and AirPods from her
gym locker at the school between
Smith and Court streets
sometime between 11 am and
1 pm.
Seems fishy
A thief swiped $300 worth
of salmon from a Court Street
grocery store sometime on
Feb. 9.
An employee told police
that the pirate pocketed 12
packets of salmon inside the
store on the corner of Atlantic
Avenue at 8:40 pm before
fleeing.
iSwipe
A burglar nabbed an iPhone
6s from a Beard Street
Ikea on Feb. 7.
The victim told police
that she accidentally left her
phone in the store’s bathroom
by Otsego Street at 3 pm, but
the thief swiped it before the
victim noticed.
Friend or foe
A jerk stole $100 from his
friend’s Hoyt Street house on
Feb. 1.
The victim told police that
her swindling acceptance took
the cash from her pants pocket
inside the home between Baltic
and Douglas streets between
8 pm and 6:15 am.
— Rose Adams
78TH PRECINCT
Park Slope
Broken windows
Rowdy knaves wreaked
havoc in a Park Place restaurant
on Jan. 31.
An employee told police
that they told the ne’er-dowells
to leave the restaurant
near Flatbush Avenue at 8:45
pm when they slammed the
glass door, causing it to shatter.
Steak out
A thief lifted some pricy
meat from a Flatbush Avenue
grocer on Feb. 2.
An employee told police
that the freebooter walked out
of the store near Fort Greene
Place at around 1:15 pm without
paying for three steaks.
Three on one
Three worms beat down
another man in an Atlantic
Avenue mall on Feb. 3.
The victim told police that
the three brutes punched and
beat him mercilessly in the
mall near Flatbush Avenue
at around 9:30 pm.
Plate pirate
A louse lifted a license
plate from a car in the parking
lot of an Atlantic Avenue
mall on Feb. 4.
The victim told police that
he parked his car in the garage
near Fort Greene Place
at around 2:50 pm, but the pirate
unscrewed and swiped the
Georgia plates by the time he
returned at 3 pm.
— Ben Verde
POLICE BLOTTER
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Bus ridership in Brooklyn
has declined 14 percent
lower ridership in 2019 than
in 2016, a steeper decline than
the city’s 12.4 percent.
The agency attributes
this to the slow speeds and
poor reliability, with average
speeds just above 7 milesper
hour — slower only than
buses in Manhattan.
The slowest buses are the
B35 at an average speed of 5.5
miles-per-hour, the B63 at 5.7
miles-per-hour and the B67
at 6.4 miles-per-hour.
Transit gurus also believe
that economic prosperity and
higher car ownership, along
with the influx of rideshare
apps like Uber and Lyft,
more bikeshare programs,
and more people working remotely
have had a negative
effect on bus ridership.
One way the MTA plans
to increase speeds is through
bus priority lanes which the
city’s Department of Transportation
installs, and the
state agency has identified
50 corridors in the borough
that could benefit from the
red-painted lanes — many
of which transit advocates
have pushed for — including
one running the length
of the former elevated Myrtle
Avenue line from Queens
to Downtown Brooklyn, Fulton
Street, Utica Avenue, and
Flatbush Avenue.
Officials gathered input
from straphangers around
the borough since October,
most of whom said that they
would like to see increased
bus frequency, faster buses,
better access to other parts of
the borough and city, along
with a simpler network that
is easier to navigate.
The borough-wide revamp
was heavily lobbied for by
Andy Byford, the agency’s
outgoing president for its
five-borough entity New
York City Transit, and transit
advocates worried that his
exit could compromise the
plans.
The agency will work
on a draft plan which they
plan to release some time in
the first half of 2020. They
will still accept comments
via this link.
The Queens draft plan of
that borough’s revamp met
with heavy criticism by riders
who said the Authority
proposed to cut several crucial
lines that would make
their rides more complicated,
QNS reported.
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