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  • brooklyn home invasion and sexual assault
  • Police investigating an alleged home invasion and sex assault in Williamsburg found themselves chasing a man on a crime spree.
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new york city, williamsburg, brooklyn, home invasion, assault, greenpoint, sexual assault, new york news
  • brooklyn home invasion and sexual assault
  • Lisa Colagrossi reports on a frightening night in two Brooklyn communities
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sexual assault, new york city, williamsburg, brooklyn, home invasion, assault, greenpoint, eyewitness news
  • missing brooklyn teen
  • 14-year old Zaire Young was last seen Saturday morning at 6 a.m. in front of his home at 38 Cornelia Street.
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new york city, brooklyn, bushwick, missing children, new york news
  • The reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of those responsible for defacing a statue of Jackie Robinson with swastikas and hate speech is now $50,000.
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new york city, brooklyn, vandalism, new york news
  • brooklyn murder
  • Two men were found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn Friday night.
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new york city, brooklyn, murder, new york news
  • coney island pedestrian bridge
  • Crews tore down the longtime pedestrian bridge that connected a Coney Island, Brooklyn, subway station to the New York Aquarium and the Boardwalk.
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new york city, coney island, brooklyn, new york news
  • Tim Fleischer is at the Cyclones stadium with more
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jackie robinson, brooklyn, eyewitness news 6pm, vandalism, eyewitness news
  • jackie robinson statue
  • The vandalism was discovered early Wednesday morning, and workers immediately attempted to start cleaning it up.
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new york city, brooklyn, new york news, tim fleischer
  • cafe
  • One café in Brooklyn is thinking not just about its clientele, but also about its workers.
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bedford-stuyvesant, brooklyn, lifestyle & fun, lauren glassberg
  • east flatbush brooklyn crash
  • The crash happened on Utica Avenue between Clarendon and Beverly roads in East Flatbush just after 4 a.m.
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new york city, brooklyn, east flatbush, accident, new york news
  • brooklyn shooting
  • A man was found shot to death in front of a building on Erasmus Street in East Flatbush just before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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new york city, brooklyn, east flatbush, shooting, new york news, kristin thorne
  • Residents say 42-year-old Donnell Barden lets his large pit bull attack other pets at Prospect Park.
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new york city, brooklyn, propsect park, animal abuse, dogs, dog attack, dog, new york news
  • According to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, the couple was married, and there was a dispute over money. The man was desperately clinging on to the hood of the Blue Ford Explorer, and rode on the outside as the SUV tore through the city streets. The driver eventually crashed into a white Nissan at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Crescent in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn.
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new york city, queens, brooklyn, cypress hills, accident, new york news, lucy yang
  • surveillance video brooklyn robber
  • Authorites have linked 3 more robberies and released new surveillance video of a man wanted for a string of robberies mainly targeting seniors in Brooklyn.
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new york city, brooklyn, robbery, new york news
  • cat in grate
  • A cat was apparently been trapped in a Bay Ridge sewer for at least four days.
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new york city, bay ridge, brooklyn, cat, new york news, tim fleischer
  • williamsburg burglaries
  • Police say two men have burglarized 12 locations in Greenpoint since mid-June.
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new york city, brooklyn, burglary, new york news
  • cat
  • Time Fleishcer has more from Bay Ridge
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  • brooklyn elderly robberies
  • The search is on for a man who has robbed at least 11 people in Brooklyn, many of whom are in their 60's and 70's.
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new york city, brooklyn, robbery, new york news
  • Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn has asked for permission to close from a bankruptcy court.
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new york city, hospital, brooklyn, new york news, josh einiger
  • Brooklyn residents are getting a new ferry stop to help ease the loss of a prime subway link to Manhattan. The ferry will stop next to the Brooklyn Army Terminal at 58th Street in Sunset Park.
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new york city, brooklyn, superstorm sandy, commuting, new york news
  • bay ridge vandalism
  • Police arrested a man in connection with the vandalism to a number of houses of worship in Bay Ridge.
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new york city, vandalism, bay ridge, brooklyn, new york news, tim fleischer
  • fire in brooklyn
  • Joe Torres reports from Williamsburg with more
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brooklyn, eyewitness news 6pm, fire, firefighters, heat, heat wave, eyewitness news
  • missing hospital patient
  • 81-year-old Celso Heredia left Long Island College Hospital without being discharged, but has turned up in Florida.
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new york city, brooklyn, cobble hill, hospital, missing person, new york news
  • brooklyn kidnap suspect
  • Police are searching for the man they say attempted to kidnap a woman in the Bergen Beach section of Brooklyn.
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new york city, brooklyn, kidnapping, new york news
  • bed-stuy shooting
  • Police in Brooklyn are looking for two men they say shot and killed a teenager Saturday morning in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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new york city, brooklyn, bedford-stuyvesant, shooting, new york news
  • brooklyn rape
  • Police are searching for the man they say tried to rob and rape a woman on the street in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
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new york city, brooklyn, rape, new york news
  • officer jamil sarwar
  • Police have a man in custody that they want to question for the Fourth of July shooting that put an NYPD officer in the hospital.
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new york city, east new york, brooklyn, nypd, officer injured, shooting, new york news
  • hospital protest
  • Billed as a funeral march across Brooklyn Bridge and a rally in Foley Square, health care workers and elected officials protested health care cuts and hospital closures.
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new york city, brooklyn, hospital, new york news, josh einiger
  • brooklyn shooting arrest
  • Police say they have arrested the man responsible for shooting five family members in Brooklyn over the weekend.
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new york city, shooting, crown heights, brooklyn, new york news
  • The Wall Street Journal reports that the state health department has rejected a restructuring plan designed to save Interfaith Medical Center.
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new york city, brooklyn, hospital, new york news
  • antonio owensford
  • Police are searching for one of two men accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl before throwing her off the roof of a building in Brooklyn.
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new york city, brooklyn, rape, sexual assault, new york news
  • Supporters of Long Island College Hospital will be back in court Monday as they try to stop the state from shutting it down.
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new york city, brooklyn, hospital, new york news
  • Police are looking into several shootings in Brooklyn and across New York City in what turned out to be a very violent weekend.
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new york city, shooting, crown heights, brooklyn, new york news
  • Just before 5 p.m. Sunday, EMS got a call for 2 males shot in the East New York Section of Brooklyn.
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new york city, shooting, east new york, brooklyn, new york news
  • Officials say the body of a New York man was recovered from the Delaware River in an eastern Pennsylvania park, the second drowning in the park in less than two weeks.
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new york city, brooklyn, drowning, new york news
  • Five people were shot outside the Bushwick Houses on Menahan Street - three men and a woman. All of the victims were taken to Elmhurst Hopsital. Eyewitnesses say five young men ran through the neighborhood and started shooting, allegedly at a man who they had an altercation with yesterday at McDonalds.
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new york city, bushwick, brooklyn, shooting, new york news
  • hammer attack victim
  • 44-year-old Clifford Price is charged with two counts of assault.
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new york city, brooklyn, bedford-stuyvesant, attempted murder, assault, new york news, sarah wallace
  • An emergency restraining has been issued after it was announced earlier Friday that Brooklyn's Long Island College Hospital will shut down by the end of the month.
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new york city, brooklyn, hospital, new york news, dave evans
  • They fear the hospital is now just days away from closing despite a long battle to save it.
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new york city, brooklyn, hospital, new york news, josh einiger
  • 19 year old Diana Metellus was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and harassment.
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new york city, coney island, brooklyn, new york news
  • williamsburg brooklyn fire
  • A third-alarm fire tore through a Brooklyn apartment building Thursday morning, leaving 25 people homeless.
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  • brooklyn subway save
  • Richard McDonald and John Gearity were on their way to work when they saw a man lose his balance and fall onto the R train tracks at the 77th Street station in Bay Ridge.
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new york city, bay ridge, brooklyn, subway, rescue, new york news
  • brooklyn boat rescue
  • Authorities say the boat overturned under the Metropolitan Avenue Bridge in the East Williamsburg section just after 5 a.m.
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new york city, brooklyn, williamsburg, boat accident, new york news
  • brooklyn soldier killed
  • Private Errol "Elijiah" Milliard, 18, was killed in Afghanistan when enemy forces attacked his unit with a rocket propelled grenade on the 4th of July.
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new york city, afghanistan, brooklyn, soldier killed, new york news
  • New York's most senior resident, who is also the world's third oldest person, celebrated turning 114 at a Brooklyn senior center.
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new york city, brooklyn, new york news
  • Police say the 7-year-old girl had drugs in her system and is listed in critical but stable condition at Lutheran Hospital Center in Brooklyn.
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new york city, coney island, brooklyn, new york news, stacey sager
  • Twleve massage parlors in Brooklyn have been shut down by investigators during raids in a prostitution crackdown.
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new york city, brooklyn, bay ridge, prostitution, new york news
  • Darla Miles reports with more
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brooklyn, new york city, arrest, eyewitness news 6pm, prostitution, investigation, eyewitness news
  • tobacco store robbery
  • Alexander Franco, 27, was taken into custody and charged with first-degree robbery in connection with the incident, which was caught on surveillance camera.
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new york city, brooklyn, cypress hills, robbery, new york news
  • nypd van accident brooklyn
  • Family, friends, students and colleagues will gather Thursday at a wake for a teacher run down by a police van in Brooklyn.
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new york city, brooklyn, accident, nypd, new york news