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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, JUNE 23, 2019
COMING SOON: Insomnia Cookies plans to open its fi rst Brooklyn branch
later this year at 32 Fifth Ave. in Park Slope. Hidrock Properties
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Park Slope cookie monsters can
soon satisfy their late-night
sugar cravings with deliveries
from the borough’s fi rst Insomnia
Cookies outpost, which is
set to open on Fifth Avenue this
fall, according to a rep with the
pastry chain.
“We are beyond excited
to sign the lease on our fi rst
Brooklyn bakery, bringing our
warm, delicious cookie delivery
to the borough for the fi rst
time,” said Chief Marketing Offi
cer Tom Carusona.
The sweets store inked a 10-
year deal to sling its 12 famed
cookie recipes and scoops of ice
cream out of 32 Fifth Avenue
until 3 am.
The new storefront, located
between Dean and Bergen
streets, is just two blocks from
both the Barclays Center and
Brooklyn’s fi rst medical marijuana
clinic, Citiva, giving
sports fans and patients easy
access to a variety of gooey
treats.
Subway screwball
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
He’s off the rails!
Police are trying to track
down some wacko who they say
put straphangers in harm’s way
by throwing materials on the
rails at several Brooklyn subway
stations during the last month.
The scoffl aw threw various
objects on the tracks at four stops
along the R line from May 9 until
June 9, causing one train to barrel
over a fi re extinguisher and
burst it, according to the authorities.
The culprit, whom cops describe
as a man between 20 and
30 years old, started his spree by
throwing debris on the Manhattan
bound D-train tracks at Atlantic
Avenue-Barclays Center
in Boerum Hill around, although
nobody was hurt as a result.
The delinquent disrupter then
continued on June 5, when he
threw a fi re extinguisher, along
with a bank of lights, a bag of
concrete mix, and a metal shim
on the Bay Ridge-bound R-train,
which a tube ran over, destroying
the extinguisher and releasing its
chemicals into the Union Street
station in Gowanus at 2 a.m., according
to the authorities.
About 40 minutes later the
prankster put a shovel on the
tracks also heading south at the
45th Street station in Sunset Park
and on June 9 — feeling festive —
he threw some Christmas lights
on the Manhattan-bound tracks
of the N-train’s Ninth Street station
in Park Slope at around 2:30
a.m., without causing damage or
harm in either cases.
He was last seen wearing a
hoodie, sunglasses, black pants,
and dark-colored boots and faces
reckless endangerment charges
if the Boys in Blue get a hold of
him, according to authorities.
Anyone with information in
regard to this incident is asked to
call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers
Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)
or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA
(74782). The public can also submit
their tips by logging onto the
Crimestoppers website at WWW.
NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM,
on Twitter @NYPDTips or by texting
their tips to 274637 (CRIMES)
then enter TIP577.
TRACK ATTACK: Police are looking for
this man, who they say threw several
objects on the tracks at four subway
stops in the borough between May
9–June 9. NYPD
A batch made in heaven
Cops seek suspect who threw materials on tracks
/NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM