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76th Precinct Crime Blotter

By on March 24, 2009 in Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Police Blotter

Here’s the week’s crime blotter for Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and some Carroll Gardens. The list includes crimes from the last two weeks.
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Dine in Brooklyn starts this week!

By on March 23, 2009 in Boerum Hill, Events, Food

Brooklyn’s own restaurant week, Dine in Brooklyn, starts today! The restaurant week is a great deal — between today and April 2, diners pay $23 for a three-course meal, but reservations need to be made in advance. This year, some restaurants are even offering a $23 dinner for two, and others are offering a $23 2-for-1 brunches.

An updated list of participating restaurants is available in this colorful PDF, and those in Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill are listed below.

The following restaurants are participating in Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill:
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Update2: Squadron’s BBP meeting details

By on March 20, 2009 in Events

We just got an email from NYS Senator Daniel Squadron’s office about his Brooklyn Bridge Park meeting in which he will unveil his vision for the park. Work in Albany calls, and he has now postponed this week’s meeting but added a second. The meetings are tonight, Friday, at 5:30 pm at Borough Hall, and Sunday, April 5 at 3 pm, place TBD.

The email reads, in full:

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76th Precinct Weekly Crime Blotter

By on March 16, 2009 in Police Blotter

76th Precinct Crime Blotter
Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens

There was quite the crime at a Fourth Place apartment building this week — a perp ransacked four apartments and tried to burgle two others, and still escaped after the escapade. There were also two lesser — but no less important — crimes in the area this week. Check back in Tuesday afternoon for updates from Boerum Hill.
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76th Precinct Crime Blotter

By on March 9, 2009 in Police Blotter

So far we just have one crime report for the neighborhood, but we’ll update the post later this week if we hear of more.

Columbia Heist
A perp burgled a woman’s Columbia Street apartment while she was out of town for seven weeks between Jan. 7 and Feb. 24. When the woman returned home at around 5:30 pm to her home, which is near Sackett Street, she noticed that three men’s leather coats were missing, as well as a women’s leather coat with fur trim, all worth about $900 total.  Cops said there was no sign of forced entry, and the woman didn’t notice any other suspicious ways the burglar could have entered the apartment.

Update: this incident, from the 84th Precinct’s blotter (which also covers Boerum Hill):

Hits home
Cops arrested a hammer-wielding punk who tried to break into a Pacific Street apartment on March 3. The incident happened just before 6 pm, when two would-be burglars entered the apartment, which is between Third and Fourth avenues, and tried to loot it.
But a man was inside, scared the perps, and chased them away. That’s when one perp started swinging a hammer at the victim, who shouted out that he was a police officer. (Cops later said that the man is not.)
The victim wrestled the 18-year-old punk to the ground and held him there until the actual cops arrived moments later and arrested him. The second kid was able to get away.

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Foodies start your engines! Dine in Brooklyn starts on March 23

By on March 9, 2009 in Events, Food

The annual Dine in Brooklyn week begins on March 23, and five Cobble Hill restaurants will be participating. Between March 23 and April 2, diners can get a three-course meal for $23 at nearly 200 of the borough best’s restaurants. And, some restaurants are offering brunch for $23 per couple.

A full list of participating restaurants is viewable here, or by visiting www.brooklyn-usa.org. The Cobble Hill restaurants are listed below the jump.

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Update about dead body on Degraw

By on March 4, 2009 in Police Blotter

We caught up with Captain Kenneth Corey of the 76th precinct on Tuesday night, who provided the following update about the chilling story of a woman’s body found  last week on Degraw Street: The woman was 24 years old and is from Coney Island. Cops have not immediately released her name, although Captain Corey said she has a “lengthy arrest history,” with mostly narcotics and prositution charges. Detectives have ruled the incident a homicide — she died of three stab wounds — and are investigating how she got to the quiet stretches of Degraw Street, where cops found her.

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76th Precinct Crime Blotter

By on March 3, 2009 in News, Police Blotter

The Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights Blogs are starting a new weekly feature to bring you the local police precincts’ crime logs every Tuesday. We’ll cover the 76th precinct in Cobble Hill (at CHB) and 84th for the Brooklyn Heights area (at BHB), and get as much info as we can from the cops about what happened, when, and where it was.

Privacy rules — and captains’ orders — prohibit us from publishing victims’ names and the incidents’ specific addresses, but we’ll give you all the other details as best we know them. And, if you know anymore about the alleged crime, let us know in the comments. We will stay on top of the bigger ones, and check back in with the cops as the investigations progress.

That said, we now launch our crime logs. Continue Reading →

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Gallery Hop!

By on February 6, 2009 in Boerum Hill

Get your art fix this weekend in Boerum Hill — two galleries will host parties on Saturday afternoon, just as the weather warms up (finally!).

First up is a new exhibition at the Shop Art Gallery at 51 Bergen St., between Boerum Place and Smith Street. The gallery opened in December with the idea to provide affordable art for its customers, and showcases emerging artists in the space. The current show of artists Anne Attal, Tony Ingrisano, Hilary Lorenz and David Opdyke will be on display from Feb. 4-March 29, and the opening reception is on Feb. 7 from 4-7 pm.

Then there’s a block party on Atlantic Avenue, between Third and Fourth avenues, at the new cheery Atlantic Gardens string of storefronts. The cocktail party fun starts at 5 pm, when merchants from NuNu Chocolates, Sanctuary Salon and Atlantic Assets host the cocktail party and street artist Aakash Nihalani and photographer Caroll Taveras provide the art and entertainment.

With temperatures in the high 40s on Saturday, it might start to feel like the spring thaw — and how better to celebrate than with a nice evening walk, and some culture thrown in.

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