We’re surprised that news of this didn’t trickle out via local message boards or email lists, but there’s apparently a flasher on the loose in Park Slope. “The man exposed himself to a 14-year-old girl after pushing his way into her apartment building two weeks ago. ‘I’m not gonna hurt you; I’ve got something to [...]

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This is the scene yesterday morning around 11:15 AM on S. 1 Street east of the BQE in Williamsburg. The NYPD was gathering evidence from a car with a bloodied up door after a shooting. Gothamist Newsmap showed a shooting at S. 1 St. & Maujer, about a block from this scene. Much of [...]

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In recent months, an old crime has started to reappear…on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant: a spate of muggings that has caught some in the neighborhood by surprise. People walking or biking alone have been attacked with punches, kicks — and in one case, a baseball bat — and then had their cellphones [...]

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Remember the story we had last week of a scary knife attack on Sixth Avenue in Park Slope? The attacker has been caught. Per the New York Post:
A violent ex-con who had violated his parole in April was still free to brutally attack a professional dancer from Park Slope, authorities said yesterday. Thomas Russo, 32, [...]

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And, now, it’s time for a small anecdote about a little car break-in in the South Slope. (The level of such incidents in the Slope is almost non-existent compared to, say, what goes on in Williamsburg where there’s such an abundance of broken glass from car windows is almost like a weird public art project [...]

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The Astoria Federal Savings Bank at 10th Street and Fifth Avenue was robbed today, which led to what at first appeared to be an evacuation of MS 51 on Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue a short time later. (It was later noted that many students were outside at the time of the incident and the [...]

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“A Brooklyn appeals judge yesterday sprang disgraced ex-assemblywoman Diane Gordon from prison, issuing a stay of sentence that allows her to remain free until her appeal is decided. Justice Steven Fisher ordered Gordon, 58, released on $100,000 bail from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester, where she was set to begin a 2-to-6-year sentence. The [...]

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“A cook at Brooklyn’s famed Junior’s Restaurant was charged with larceny yesterday after co-workers caught him with 15 frozen lobster tails stuffed down his pants and into bandages around his legs, cops said. Prep cook Raymundo Flores, 40, was spotted in a walk-in freezer by colleague Adam Marks, allegedly taking lobster tails and stuffing them [...]

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While not all tales of local crime are worth noting, some definitely are, either because of the way they are recounted, or because of the details. This one just posted on the Prospect Heights Forum over a Brooklynian is one of the ones worth recounting:
Three girls tried to mug me just after 1 am on [...]

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Williamsburg was among the neighborhoods where crime was reported to have spiked in the last quarter, and we’ve periodically seen reports of problem, particularly in South Williamsburg. Late last night we got an email with the subject line “Subject: Danger in the Neighborhood, please watch out. this is serious.” Whether one believes every incident outlined [...]

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There was more than playing going in a little park/playground on Warren Street between Hoyt and Smith in Boerum Hill late yesterday afternoon. There have been many emails on both the Boerum Hill list and the BoCoCa Parents group about gunfire in or near the park (including one explanation to a late-arriving parent of the [...]

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A GL reader write about a “barricade situation” on St. Mark’s Place at the edge of Park Slope: “There is currently a ‘barricaded subject’ at 28 st. mark’s place (between 3rd and 4th ave) — google seems to imply that this is some sort of hostage situation (?!). The whole block is full of NYPD [...]

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There is hopeful news from Windsor Terrace and Eden Cleaners, which was the site of the murder of a beloved neighborhood business person last week. A memorial tree has been quietly planted, the slain owner’s son reopened the store yesterday morning and says he intends to carry on the business. A memorial fund has been [...]

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There is already a large memorial to Kyong-Sook Woo, the murdered Windsor Terrace Dry Cleaner, outside her store. Next week, residents are planting a blossoming tree in her memory on the corner outside the store where she worked and died.–NYDN

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There’s a little street corner memorial service tonight in Windsor Terrace for Kyong-Sook Woo, the woman who was murdered a week ago in her dry cleaning store. It takes place at Tenth Avenue and Windsor Place tonight at 7PM.

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The Windsor Terrace Alliance passes along word of an “emergency meeting” taking place tonight on neighborhood safety issues in Windsor Terrace, which is still in shock over the robbery and murder neighborhood dry cleaner Kyung-Sook Woo. Here’s a bit from the email that is in circulation:
Councilmember Bill de Blasio and Assembly member Jim Brennan with [...]

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Here’s an interesting post on Brooklynian by someone named parkslopeboy that, at first, we thought was about vandalism of cars on Park Place in Park Slope, but it turns out to have some added information about what happened when two suspects were found by the police:
We were at our neighbor’s house on Park Place between [...]

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Some things manage to press a button that goes directly to one’s reserves of anger. So it is with this tale on writer Felicia Sullivan’s blog, which is ostensibly about why someone is fed up with Park Slope (yes, taking off on the theme of that New York Times article again), but is really about [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Lauren Collins]
Windsor Terrace is mourning Kyung-Sook Woo, the beloved owner of the dry cleaning store who was murdered in a robbery on Friday. (A suspect was arrested yesterday.) Lauren Collins of the Windsor Terrace Alliance sent of photos of the very sad and moving memorial that has grown outside the store. She [...]

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An arrest has been made in the murder of Kyong Sook-Woo inside the dry cleaning store she operated in Windsor Terrace. The suspect, Jamal Winter, was arrested at his home in Park Slope. He has been charged with murder and robbery. The beloved 63-year-old grandmother, who routinely worked 12 hours days in the shop, was [...]

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Here is a report from Channel 2 last night, updating the sad murder of a dry cleaner on Tenth Avenue in Windsor Terrace.

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“The owner of a longtime Windsor Terrace dry cleaners was discovered dead in the store this morning. She victim has been identified as 52-year-old Kyung-Sook Woo, was found by an employee opening Eden Dry Cleaners at 1623 10th Avenue sometime after 7 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene…The NYPD is asking the public’s [...]

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We recall an uptick in stories of around this time two year ago about gangs of teens robbing and/or terrorizing people in Prospect Park. We’re hoping it’s an isolated incident, but someone posted a very unsettling account in the Park Slope Forum on Brooklynian about an attack in the park yesterday by a large group [...]

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Anyone who’s been in Dumbo recently has no doubt noted the presence of the NYPD’s “skywatch,” a thing we like to call the Tower of Fun, under the Manhattan Bridge and elsewhere. It’s a patrol tower that is used to establish a police presence and, ostensibly, reduce crime. The tower goes up two stories and [...]

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Five swastikas were found in Williamsburg yesterday, on Bedford Avenue between Park and Flushing Avenue in a heavily Jewish part of the neighborhood. City Council Member Bill de Blasio issued a statement saying he is “disgusted that hate crimes such as these have become so prevalent throughout Brooklyn. It’s appalling that in 2008 we are [...]

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