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88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene-Clinton hill
Chemical
weapon
Police arrested a woman for
allegedly attacking a man with
bleach at her Clinton Avenue
home on March 31.
The victim told police that
the defendant allegedly came
into his room between Gates
Avenue and Fulton Street at
2 pm and threw the chemical
on his face — causing a
burning swelling — before
splashing it on his bed, walls,
and microwave.
Cops arrived at the scene
and arrested the woman on
felony assault charges.
Credit scammer
Some huckster stole $650
from a man by opening up a
fraudulent credit account in
his name at N. Elliott Walk
on April 3.
The victim told police that
the scammer used his personal
information to create
the credit account and stole the
money of the man near St. Edwards
Street at 4:30 pm.
Elder swindler
A scumbag scammed an old
lady out of $5,000 at Lafayette
Avenue on April 3.
The victim told police that
the charlatan called her pretending
to be her grandson
and told her to withdraw the
money and hand it over to
a man who came to pick it
up at her home between St.
James Place and Classon Avenue
at 1 pm.
The woman later spoke to
her actual grandson and found
out it was a scam.
Bag bandit
A thief snatched a woman’s
backpack and belongings
from her car on Washington
Avenue on April 4.
The victim told police that
the nogoodnik opened her
unlocked car between Willoughby
and Myrtle avenues
at noon, and grabbed the bag
before hightailing it.
Car buster
A carjacker stole a man’s
car parked at Park Avenue on
the night of March 29.
The victim told police
that he left his car near Navy
Street around 7 pm and when
he came back the next morning
at 6:30 am, he found the
car to be gone, with some broken
glass on the ground of
where he’d left it.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
Carroll Gardens-
Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Beer bust
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
stealing beer from a
Smith Street pharmacy on
April 4.
An employee told police
that the suspect entered
the pharmacy near President
Street at 1:50 am and
nabbed the $12 six-pack before
fleeing.
Paint punks
Police arrested two men
for allegedly spray painting
a fence on Fourth Place on
April 2.
Cops say the two defendants
were spray painting a tag
on city property near Smith
Street at 2:35 am.
Phone fraud
A hoaxer scammed an
82-year-old man out of $5,000
on Amity Street on April 6.
The victim told police that
the scammer called him saying
that his grandson had
been arrested and needed
money to post bail, so the
victim handed the money to
the con-artist’s co-conspirator
between Court and Clinton
Street at 12:30 pm before
realizing that he had been
conned.
Cold-hearted
A bandit stole $95 worth
of cold medicine from a
Smith Street pharmacy on
April 2.
An employee told police
that the burglar nabbed $95
worth of children’s Tylenol
and Robitussin from the store
on the corner of Warren Street
at 2:15 pm before leaving the
store and running northbound
on Smith Street.
— Rose Adams
60TH PRECINCT
Coney Island—Brighton
Beach—Seagate
Gun-wielding
goons
Two housebreakers threatened
a woman with a firearm
and stole from her W.
28th Street apartment on
March 29.
The victim told police she
was bringing the trash into
the hallway of her apartment
building between Mermaid
and Surf avenues at around
10 pm when she encountered
the home invaders, who forced
their way into the home at
gunpoint, and stole electronics
and other items, before
fleeing.
Hell-evator
Two pillagers brutally
robbed a woman in the elevator
of a W. Eighth Street
building on March 30.
The victim told police that
the one of the bandits smacked
her phone on the ground and
held her in a headlock inside
the public housing complex between
Avenue V and Avenue
X at around 11:30 am, while
the other punched and kicked
her — before stealing a bag
of chips, some cash, and cigarettes.
— Jessica Parks
By Jessica Parks
Brooklyn Paper
A Kensington resident’s
letter advocating for weekday
use of Green-Wood Cemetery’s
additional entrances
garnered more than 100 signatures,
prompting cemetery
officials to agree to open all
four gates to fresh air-seekers
amid the current outbreak.
“We have adjusted the open
hours for our Gates to accommodate
those of you seeking a
place to enjoy art, history, and
nature while practicing precautions
to reduce the spread
of coronavirus,” read an April
1 statement on the cemetery’s
website.
On March 14, local resident
Caroline Loomis penned
a letter to Green-Wood Cemetery,
Sunset Park Councilman
Carlos Menchaca and
Park Slope Councilman Brad
Lander asking that more entrances
be opened to accommodate
quarantined visitors.
Loomis sent her letter four
days later, along with 125 signatures
and messages of gratitude
from neighbors.
“I heard back two days
later from Green-Wood with
a really positive response,”
Loomis told Brooklyn Paper.
“They said that the kind and
supportive notes people included
in the letter were wonderful
to read, and that they
were working on a way to
make it happen.”
While the cemetery typically
keeps only its main entrance
on Fifth Avenue and
25th Street in Greenwood
Heights and its Sunset Park
entrance at Fourth Avenue and
35th Street open on weekdays,
it will now operate all four
of its gates to allow for an
easier flow of people in and
out of the space during the
pandemic.
Its other entrances at Prospect
Park West and 20th
Street in Windsor Terrace
and Fort Hamilton Parkway
and Micieli Place in Kensington
will now be open from
11 am to 7 pm on weekdays
and will remain open from 8
am to 7 pm on weekends. Its
Fifth Avenue entrance will
remain open from 7 am to 7
pm daily, and its Fourth Avenue
entrance from 8 am to
7 pm daily.
Extending use of the Fort
Hamilton Parkway Entrance
will provide greater access to
Kensington residents who either
have a 10-block trek to
the main entrance or might
take a subway to one of the
borough’s more transit-accessible
green spaces such
as Sunset Park or Prospect
Park, Loomis said.
“For those of us living
by the Fort Hamilton Parkway
entrance to the cemetery,
the nearest large parks
are quite a long walk or require
taking public transit,”
Loomis said. “During this
time of social distancing, it
seems more important than
ever to have as much open
space as possible available
to New Yorkers.”
She spoke of the significance
of Green-Wood Cemetery
as a place of refuge for
those who may need some
psychological relief from all
the stress that has come with
the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
“COVID-19 is having,
and will continue to have,
real psychological and emotional
impacts on everyone.
It’s a drop in the bucket, but
I think more access to green
space will benefit many people,”
Loomis said. “Fresh air,
quiet rustling leaves, blooming
flowers — this stuff is
medicine for us when sadness,
fear, and stress are running
high.”
Governor Andrew Cuomo
ordered the city close all of
its playgrounds on April 1
after city dwellers were consistently
failing to keep six
feet from one another, he
said, but parks remain open
for the time being to give
New Yorkers some space
to breathe.
Green-Wood opens up
Cemetery now more accessible to walkers
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