A Play-By-Play Of Saturday’s Occupy Williamsburg Protest
Event Poster, via Buzzfeed Details are just now emerging about Saturday night’s Occupy Williamsburg “Occu-Party.” According to NY Daily News, fifty protesters set up camp at The Bedford, a vacant...
View ArticleCop Shooting And Manhunt Through Bushwick Last Night
twitter The big news from Bushwick this morning is that 29-year-old police officer Kevin Brennan will live after getting shot in the skull last night. Brennan is currently at Bellevue Hospital in...
View ArticleTruck Spills Broccoli All Over WB Bridge
via twitter A truck’s overturned load shut down westbound traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge at around 5:50 this morning, according to reports. The truck happened to be carrying broccoli. Don’t worry,...
View ArticleHere’s The Man Responsible For The Bedford L Death
Gothamist As you may have read by now, on Friday night an L train struck and killed a 20-year-old man who had fallen on to the subway tracks during a fight. We’ve posted about subway deaths before, but...
View ArticleHere Is The L Train Murder Suspect (Updated)
via Gothamist After first releasing a sketch and then surveillance video, police have now identified the suspect in Friday night’s Bedford Ave. L train murder as Ryan Beauchamp. According to reports,...
View ArticleBREAKING: No Murder Charge For Man Involved In Deadly Bedford L Brawl
via NY Daily News Gothamist reports that police have charged Ryan Beauchamp with attempted assault (a misdemeanor) and harassment (a violation), not murder, for his involvement in last Friday’s deadly...
View ArticleThe Bedford “Bomb” Was An Art Project After All
Miyakawa's site People speculated – somewhat facetiously – that Friday’s bomb scare on Bedford Avenue must have been an art project because, after all, it is Williamsburg. Turns out they were right....
View ArticleViolence Continues At The McCarren Park Pool
A Walk In The Park On Sunday we told you about how the McCarren Park Pool was off to a rocky start, including an incident in which teens attacked a lifeguard who told them not to do backflips. Well it...
View ArticlePolice Swarm McCarren Park Pool After Rough First Week
A Walk in the Park Today marks a week that the newly renovated McCarren Park Pool has been open and boy oh boy what a week it’s been. In response to the attacks on lifeguards, assault on police, and...
View ArticleNYPD Uses Pepper Spray In McCarren Pool Melee
Chrissie64's flickr We told ourselves we were going to take a break from posting horror stories about the McCarren Park Pool after it’s first week of long lines, fights, theft, increased police...
View ArticleThe Department of Homeland Security raided an East Williamsburg apartment...
credit: Gothamist Early Sunday morning, agents of the NYPD and the Department of Homeland Security conducted a raid on the apartment building located at 221 Devoe Street in East Williamsburg, Gothamist...
View ArticleSuspected Williamsburg bike thief cries when building resident calls police
A man who appeared to be stealing bikes in Williamsburg this weekend had an unexpected reaction when caught in a South 3rd street and Bedford building’s storage room by a resident. From DNA info: The...
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