88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Biker baddies
Two bandits assaulted a cyclist
before stealing his two-wheeler on
Cumberland Walk on July 14.
The victim told police that the
pilfers brutally knocked him off the
bike near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
at around 10:30 am, before
pedaling off.
Police later found the bike
nearby, but the perps were nowhere
to be found, according to police.
Parking trouble
A brute allegedly pepper sprayed
a man for parking in his Waverly
Avenue driveway on July 12.
The victim told police that the
chemical-welding baddie confronted
him for leaving his car in the suspect’s
parking spot near Myrtle Avenue
at around noon, before he unleashed
the spray and hit the victim
with a metal rod.
Broomstick brute
Police nabbed a man for allegedly
hitting an acquaintance with a
broomstick, before brutally assaulting
her at her Fulton Street home on
July 14.
The victim told police that the
suspect hit her with the stick near
Carlton Avenue at around 10 am,
before throwing her on the ground
and choking her.
Paramedics took the woman to
Brooklyn Hospital, and cops cuffed
the man later that day, according to
police.
Elder assault
A bruiser violently assaulted an
older man on Greene Avenue on
July 16.
The victim told police that the
unknown individual drove up on
a black moped and pushed him to
the ground near Waverly Avenue at
around 2 pm, before scooting off.
Dick and pains
Pirates broke into Dick and
Jane’s Bar and stole cash from the
Adelphi Street watering hole on
July 14.
Employees told police that the invaders
got into the bar near Dekalb
Avenue at around 7 am through
an unlocked window, before stealing
$333.62 and a number of blank
checks.
Spray paint perp
Cops arrested an alleged vandal
for attempting to paint graffi ti at a
Classon Avenue business on July
16.
A security guard allegedly saw
the man holding two spray paint
cans near the establishment at Park
Avenue at around 1:30 am and called
the cops.
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Police picked up the man and
cuffed him for a slew of charges, according
to police.
Air BnBaddie
A cybercriminal swindled over
$11,000 from a Clinton Avenue man
on July 1.
The victim told police that the
crook got access to his Chase mobile
app and racked up thousands of
charges on AirBnB.
— Aidan Graham
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Bus money
Cheapos punched a city bus
driver when she demanded they pay
the fare after getting on at Cropsey
Avenue on July 14.
The victim told police the malefactors
fl ed in an unknown direction
from the intersection with Bay Parkway
around 1:15 am after breaking
the glass on the bus’s front door.
Apple Snatch
A bandit shoplifted four Apple
Watches from a Bay Parkway electronics
store on July 17.
A witness told police the lout fl ed
from the store between 65th and 66
streets on foot.
Unbanked
A housebreaker swiped $8,000
and jewelry from a W. 10th Street
apartment on July 13.
The victim told police the burglar
most likely got into the building
between Avenue P and Quentin
Road around 12 pm through the broken
front door or through her unlocked
window.
60TH PRECINCT
BOROUGH PARK—MIDWOOD—
KENSINGSTON
Prescription pick-up
A duo of bandits pushed a man
delivering a prescription to a W.
31st Street apartment and stole the
car he was driving on July 12.
Police said the victim was not
the owner of the car that was stolen
from between Surf and Mermaid
avenues around 6 am that
was later found two blocks away.
Phone swap
Thieves stole a man’s iPhone
12 and gave him an iPhone 6 when
mugging him on Surf Avenue when
he was on a walk on July 16.
The victim told police the trio
of bruisers approached him from
behind between W. 15th Street and
Stillwell Avenue and punched him
to the ground around 4 am and
kicked him while he was down.
—Jessica Parks
Luxury sports car driver
dies sfter fi ery crash Into
Brooklyn LIRR tracks
Footage from the crash’s aftermath on Atlantic Avenue and Hunterfl y Place shows
the burned-out wreckage. Citizen
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A lead-footed luxury sports car
driver died and his passenger remains
in critical condition after
their ride plowed into a pillar of
the elevated Long Island Rail Road
tracks in Brooklyn in a fi ery Saturday
morning crash.
The motorist was speeding
westbound on Atlantic Avenue in a
black Maserati Ghibli and lost control,
jumped the curb and slammed
into the railroad support structure
near Hunterfl y Place in Bedford-
Stuyvesant, according to an NYPD
investigation and footage from the
scene.
First responders got to the
scene just after 3:20 am and found
the car engulfed in fl ames with the
two men inside.
Firefi ghters extinguished the
blaze and paramedics rushed the
35-year-old male passenger to
Brookdale Hospital with life-threatening
injuries and pronounced the
driver dead on the scene, according
to police.
A video posted on Citizen later
that day shows the burnt-out
wreckage with police cordoning
off a one-block stretch of the busy
Atlantic Avenue thoroughfare.
There have been six crashes
with eight injuries and one death
at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue
and Hunterfl y Place since 2011,
according to data collected by NYC
Crash Mapper.
The fi gures pale in comparison
to the next intersection at Rochester
Avenue, where there have been
a staggering 65 crashes with 98 injuries
and one death, according to
the website.
The deceased driver’s identity
is being withheld pending family
notifi cation, according to an NYPD
spokesman, and the investigation
remains ongoing.