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Brooklyn Today: The majority of NYCHA murders last year were in Brooklyn

August 20, 2019 Brooklyn Today
The Red Hook Houses. Photo by Paul Frangipane
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THE LEDE: Good Morning! The majority of all murders on NYCHA properties over the past year took place in Brooklyn, even though the borough is home to only a third of the public housing population in the city. NYCHA properties in the borough saw 25 murders throughout the year.

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THE RUNDOWN

~DANIEL PANTALEO, COP WHO USED BANNED CHOKEHOLD IN 2014 ERIC GARNER DEATH, IS FIRED FROM NYPD: The NYPD officer who used a banned chokehold that led to the death of Eric Garner was fired Monday, five years after Garner’s final words — “I can’t breathe” — fueled the nationwide #BlackLivesMatter movement and spurred calls for police accountability.

~44 MURDERS OCCURRED ON NYCHA PROPERTY IN THE PAST YEAR. THE MAJORITY WERE IN BROOKLYN: A total of 44 people citywide were murdered on NYCHA property last year. Brooklyn accounted for 57 percent of those murders, even though the borough holds only a third of the city’s public housing population.

~REVAMPED ASIAN GALLERIES AT BROOKLYN MUSEUM SET TO REOPEN AFTER 6 YEARS: The Brooklyn Museum’s Arts of China and Arts of Japan exhibits are scheduled to reopen in October after a major six-year renovation and reinstallation. The exhibits pair classic masterworks with contemporary pieces from Chinese and Japanese artists.

~PHOTOS: CONEY ISLAND CELEBRATES 29TH ANNUAL SAND SCULPTING CONTEST: The sand on Coney Island’s beach went vertical when dozens of amateurs, professionals and semi-pro sculptors poured their creativity into it for the 29th annual Sand Sculpting Competition.

~MARZIPAN, MOZZARELLA AND MUSIC ON BENSONHURST’S 18TH AVENUE: Here’s a retail corridor where people know what the work latticini means, where the hot new store is an old movie theater and the most glamorous building you’ll see is a church from the 1820s.

~PHOTOS: BROOKLYN VIGIL HONORS 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST AFRICAN SLAVES IN COLONIAL U.S.: Nearly 100 people gathered at DUMBO’s Pebble Beach to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved African people arriving on the shores of the colonial U.S.

 

MORE BROOKLYN NEWS

~ Half of the city neighborhoods with the most trees are in Brooklyn, including at the top of the list (Patch)

~ “Cyclist’s death inspires 1,000 signatures on petition for redesign of Coney Island Ave.” (amny)

~ NYPD: Bedford-Stuyvesant residents and police officers were injured during weekend riots (Brooklyn Paper)

~ “Burst pipe floods NYCHA building after repeated leak complaints from resident” (Pix 11)

 

STAFF PICKS

~ READ: “In Sickness, In Health — and In Prison(The Marshall Project)

~ EAT: The team from Taiwanese hit Win Son will open their all-day cafe and bakery this September. (Eater)

~ HEALTH: The overtreatment of diabetes is becoming a problem. (Medical News Today)

~ TECHNOLOGY: “Facial Recognition Technology: Here are the Important Pros and Cons(Forbes)

 

WHAT’S HAPPENING  

6:45PM — NYRR Open Run at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6. Details.

7:30PM 9:30PM — The Science of Love in the Time of Online Dating at Subject. Details.

8:00PM 10:00PM — Ambush Comedy at Two Boots Williamsburg. Details.

 

THE WRAP  

ON THIS DAY

In 1949, the Eagle reported, “Air Force investigators who turned up two tattered disk-type airplanes in an abandoned Maryland tobacco shed hinted today the discovery may ‘break’ the flying saucer mystery.”

📔 IMPRINT

Lil Nas X lands on the cover of Time.

👑 ROYAL WATCH

“30 Times the Royals Stuck Their Tongues Out for the Camera” (Town and Country)

🏀SPORTS

Mikhail Prokhorov leaves a complicated legacy with the Nets” (Sports Illustrated)

 

BIRTHDAYS

Happy birthday to Al Roker, Amy Adams, Robert Plant, Joan Allen, Ron Paul, Andy Benes, Demi Lovato, Connie Chung, Don King, Steve Daines, Todd Helton, Billy Gardell and Andrew Garfield!

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