A man steals solar-powered lamps from the front lawn of a Jewish home in Crown Heights.
Video: Stealing the Light
A man steals solar-powered lamps from the front lawn of a Jewish home in Crown Heights.
A man steals solar-powered lamps from the front lawn of a Jewish home in Crown Heights.
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy that took place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn early Tuesday.
A man who was arrested about a month ago for exposing himself to women in Crown Heights and subsequently released has struck again.
For the second time this month, thieves stole all four tires off a Crown Heights vehicle, leaving the car’s body ‘hanging’ on stacked bricks. The car was parked on the corner of Crown St. and Troy Ave.
A burglar who has been terrorizing the Crown Heights neighborhood for several weeks, breaking into homes and businesses in the dead of night, has finally been apprehended and is in police custody. The Crown Heights community is breathing a collective sigh of relief.
A middle-aged African-American male was caught on surveillance video attempting to force his way into a Jewish residence. At about 2:00am last night, the suspect approached the home on Montgomery St. and blocked the peephole with a “Shir Hamaalos” card. Luckily, the inhabitants decided not to open the door; there is no telling what he intended to do if the door had been opened.
Crown Heights [CHI] — A member of the Crown Heights Shomrim volunteer patrol woke up this morning to find that his car had been torched. A burning substance had been tossed between the windshield and the hood, incapacitating the car and causing substantive exterior damage.
Congregants of Frankel Shul – located on President St. between Utica and Rochester Ave. – were interrupted amid their Shabbos afternoon prayers when gun shots rang out right outside the Shul where the children were playing.
Tire thieves strike again – five days later. An SUV parked on Lefferts Avenue was the latest victim of the tire thieves. Once again, all four tires and rims were removed and the vehicle was left on two cinder-blocks.
Surveillance video caught three African-American teenagers trespassing into a condo-apartment building and leaving moments later with two bicycles. The building, located on Brooklyn Ave. between East New York and Maple St., is predominantly Jewish.
A 2-year-old girl was among six people shot when a car drove past a playground and sprayed it with bullets, the third time this month that a toddler has become a victim of a summer spate of shootings across New York City.
For the second time in as many months, a Jewish owned car had its wheels stolen right off it last night by shifty thieves. The vehicle was parked on Albany Ave. between Union and President St. Of course, traffic cops will still ticket the vehicle for being on the wrong side for street cleaning.
Shots were fired near the corner of Eastern Parkway and New York Ave. last night. There were no reported injuries. Police responded to the scene and took an African-American male into custody.
25-year-old Martin Thomas was shot and killed in Crown Heights last night. The shooting took place on St. Johns Place near Schenectady Ave. shortly after 7:30pm. Another victim, a 24-year-old man, was shot in the right leg.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — At around 5:00pm yesterday, a bochur was walking on Troy Ave. near Maple St. when he was approached by three suspicious looking youths.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was apprehended by Shomrim last night after he went for a ‘walk’ on President Street and exposed himself to multiple women – the last of which was witnessed by a number of Shomrim volunteers. Police arrested the man after a neighborhood-wide chase.
An African-American family was robbed in their Crown Heights apartment by two knife-wielding thieves wearing ski masks, who walked into their apartment on Albany Avenue at about 4:30 a.m., authorities reported.