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Protected bike lane coming to W’burg’s N. 14th Street
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Slimeballs rob 14-year-old in MetroTech Center
84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–
DUMBO–Boerum Hill–
Downtown
Cell snatcher
Some dirtbags snatched
a teen’s phone and headphones
in MetroTech Center
on Feb. 10.
The 14-year-old victim
told police that two slimeballs
yanked his phone from his
rands near Lawrence Street
at 4:20 pm and ran off before
police arrived.
Subway scofflaw
A blade-wielding bandit
stole a guy’s phone on a Manhattan
bound train at Court
Street on Feb. 11.
The victim told police that
the menace approached him
aboard the train and pulled out
a Swiss army knife near the
station at Montague and Clinton
streets at 7:20 pm before
kicking him in the shoulder
and grabbing the phone.
The victim then ran out of
the train at Court Street and
the brute stayed on the train,
according to police reports.
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Jawbreaker
A bruiser broke a guy’s
jaw at a Hoyt Street bar on
Feb. 2.
The victim told police that
he went to shake the malcontent’s
hand at the tavern
between Livingston and
Schermerhorn streets at 12:30
am, but the villain said, “I
don’t want your hand,” and
sucker-punched him.
The victim then went to
Brooklyn Hospital for treatment.
Overnight haul
Sneak thieves broke into a
Fulton Street sporting goods
store on Feb. 9.
Witnesses told police that
the looters got into the building
at Hoyt Street and snagged
a bunch of clothes, before bolting
on Fulton Street.
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Jumped!
Two wretches held up a
teen on Willoughby Street
on Feb. 13.
The 16-year-old victim
told police that the crooks
grabbed him by the arm and
said, “Don’t make any noise,
or I’ll knock you out” at St.
Edwards Street around 8 pm,
before taking his phone and
making him erase its memory.
Stairwell scum
Some jerk robbed a guy
inside a Cumberland Walk
building on Feb. 11.
The victim told police that
the rogue elbowed him in the
back of his neck inside the
stairwell of his apartment
building between N. Oxford
Street and Cumberland
Street at 2:20 pm, making him
fall down — before the lawbreaker
grabbed his phone
and cash.
Cad crew
A group of dirtbags ambushed
a woman on Carlton
Avenue on Feb. 13.
The victim told police that
one of the three rakes put his
hand on her mouth between
Willoughby and Dekalb avenues
at 8:15 pm, before grabbing
her phone, and the villains
ran off.
Cuffed bandit
Police arrested a man for
allegedly robbing a woman
on Flushing Avenue on Feb.
15.
The victim told police that
the suspect allegedly slammed
her against a car and took her
purse at N. Elliott Place at
10:15 pm.
Police caught up with the
man at 10:51 at Adams and Tillary
streets and slapped him
with felony robbery charges,
according to police reports.
Canned!
Cops arrested a woman
suspected of throwing a soda
can at another woman on Clinton
Avenue on Feb. 10.
The victim told police that
he suspect allegedly almost
hit her with her car at Flushing
Avenue at 2:20 pm. When
the victim confronted the accused
woman, she allegedly
threw the can at her, got out
of the car and slapped her in
the back of the head, and fled
on Flushing Avenue toward
Navy Street.
—Kevin Duggan
72ND PRECINCT
Sunset Park–Windsor
Terrace
Act of hate
A scumbag painted a swastika
inside the 15th Street-
Prospect Park subway station
on Feb. 17.
A witness reported the
hateful symbol to police inside
the station near Prospect
Park West just after midnight,
and city employees later removed
the graffiti.
Smashers
A couple of raiders vandalized
a Seventh Avenue nail
salon on Feb. 12.
The business owner told
police that ten reprobates
smashed the window of the
store near 59th street at 4 am,
and smashed the store up with
baseball bats.
Chain of fools
Cops cuffed a suspect for
allegedly beating another man
with a chain on Fifth Avenue
on Feb. 16.
A police officer witnessed
the man allegedly striking the
victim with the chain several
times near 50th Street
at around 12:40 am, causing
severe bruising and swelling.
Officers cuffed the man
and charged him with felony
assault.
Shopping spree
Some galoot tried to scam
his employer on 37th Street
on Feb. 11.
The victim told police
that his employee stole his
credit card from their workplace
near Second Avenue at
around 6 pm, and used it to
swindle $1,627 worth of cash
and property.
78TH PRECINCT
Park Slope
Fight night
A ruffian assaulted a
woman on Seventh Avenue
on Feb. 9.
The victim told police that
the brute yelled at her and
pushed her near First Street
at around 10 pm while she
was trying to pick up her
friend.
Shelter chaos
Police arrested a shelter resident
for allegedly threatening
other residents on Eighth
Avenue on Feb. 12.
Employees told police that
the suspect threatened to hit
several people with a chair
in the shelter near 14th Street
at around 2 pm, before allegedly
breaking a glass bottle
and threatening to kill the responding
officers if they approached
her.
Cops eventually arrested
the woman on felony menacing
charges, according to
police reports.
A galaxy far, far
away
Some crook nabbed a guy’s
tablet from a Butler Street
gym on Jan. 8.
The victim told police that
he left his Galaxy tablet in an
unlocked locker of the gym
near Third Avenue at 4 pm, but
the swindler snagged it before
he returned at 5:30 pm.
Jean genie
A shoplifter ripped off an
Atlantic Avenue Old Navy on
Feb. 9.
A store employee told police
that the thief made off undetected
with nine pairs of
jeans from the clothing retailer
near Flatbush Avenue
at around 10 am.
— Ben Verde
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By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
City planners want to add
a new parking-protected bike
lane on two blocks of N. 14th
Street as part of a revamp to
make the historically industrial
thruway on the Williamsburg
Greenpoint border safer
for pedestrians and pedalers,
according to officials.
“There’s been a transition
over the years from manufacturing
and heavier industrial
uses to more lighter manufacturing,
mixed lofts and
other multi-purpose uses,”
said Department of Transportation
representative
Stephen Solecki at a meeting
of Community Board 1
on Feb. 11.
The agency plans to turn
the two-way street between
Kent and Nassau avenues into
a one-way eastbound roadway,
featuring a green-painted
bike lane abutting the southern
sidewalk, with a row of
parked cars separating bikers
from car traffic.
Currently, bikes have to
share the two-way street
which boasts frequent truck
traffic that is forced to turn
left onto the roadway when
Franklin Street ends — and
leaves southbound traffic with
no other option than to turn
onto N. 14th Street, according
to Solecki.
Planners also want to create
a 20-foot walking space
at the southwest corner of N.
14th Street and Nassau Avenue
near McCarren Park,
bordering a two-foot buffer
Brooklyn’s
boulevard
battle lines
and an unprotected bike lane,
so that pedestrians can better
see oncoming traffic before
crossing the street, according
to officials.
The city plans to change
the street layout sometime
during the late spring and
early summer, which coincides
with a scheme to install
a stretch of two-way protected
bike lanes at Kent Avenue and
West Street, adjacent to the
N. 14th Street project.
One board member implored
the agency to instead
build the bike lane to be westbound,
from McCarren Park
to the waterfront, while constructing
a shared lane for
bikes and cars on the eastbound
side of the roadway.
“It seems like you’re eliminating
that option, would you
consider having the bike lane
going westbound and having
sharrows going eastbound,”
said T. Willis Elkins.
The city transit reps
claimed that such a change
would require the planners to
go back to square one, but instead
offered to study the possibility
of installing of a westbound
shared bike lane on a
different street nearby.
DOT planners want to add a parking protected bike lane for two blacks of N.
14th Street and turn it into a one-way street.
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