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Memorial in Windsor Terrace Tonight

May 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Crime · Windsor Terrace

“Emergency Meeting” on Windsor Terrace Neighborhood Safety

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on “Emergency Meeting” on Windsor Terrace Neighborhood Safety

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 […]

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Tags: Crime · Windsor Terrace

Cops Stop Slope Tire Slashers, Do Nothing?

May 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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 […]

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Tags: Crime · Park Slope

The Most Loathsome Woman in Brooklyn?

May 20th, 2008 · 17 Comments

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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Tags: Crime · Park Slope · Uncategorized · Windsor Terrace

Windsor Terrace Mourns Kyung-Sook Woo

May 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

[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. […]

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Tags: Crime · Windsor Terrace

Arrest Made in Kyong Sook-Woo’s Murder in Windsor Terrace

May 19th, 2008 · Comments Off on Arrest Made in Kyong Sook-Woo’s Murder in Windsor Terrace

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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Tags: Crime · Windsor Terrace

Update on Sad Windsor Terrace Dry Cleaner Murder

May 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Update on Sad Windsor Terrace Dry Cleaner Murder

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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Tags: Crime · Uncategorized · Windsor Terrace

Bklink: Death in Windsor Terrace

May 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Death in Windsor Terrace

“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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Tags: Crime · Shortlink · Uncategorized · Windsor Terrace

Nasty Beating Incident in Prospect Park

May 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Nasty Beating Incident in Prospect Park

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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Tags: Crime · Prospect Park

Tower of Fun Resting & Working in Dumbo

April 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Crime · Dumbo

Bklink: Williamsburg Swastikas

April 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Williamsburg Swastikas

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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Tags: Crime · Shortlink · Williamsburg

Atlantic Terminal Target "Nightmare"

April 2nd, 2008 · 7 Comments

We’re seriously behind the curve on this, but our friends at Racked posted an item earlier this week detailing an awful story of a woman who says she was falsely arrested for shoplifting at the Target at the Atlantic Terminal Mall. Racked writes that she was “hauled handcuffed out of the store, thrown in the […]

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Tags: Crime · Fort Greene · Retail

Bklink: Tower of Fun

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Tower of Fun

One of the NYPD’s traveling Towers of Fun has come to Dumbo in response to an increase in crime in the neighborhood. “The NYPD deployed Sky Watch yesterday, a ‘mobile platform for surveillance, assessment, and response’ on Front Street between Adams and Pearl Street in Dumbo Brooklyn. We haven’t had a chance to check with […]

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Tags: Crime · Dumbo · Shortlink

Scary Tale of a Boerum Hill Mugging

March 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

We realize that this is Brooklyn/New York City and that muggings happens (less frequently than they used to, but often enough to make it an unpleasant possibility). For some reason, mugging tales that circulate via some of the neighborhood listserves are most unsettling than “police report” stories, possibly because of the personal accounts they contain. […]

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Tags: Boerum Hill · Crime

Park Slope Debit & Credit Card Fraud Victims Being Sought

March 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

We got an email from Lee Kushnir at WCBS, who is working on a story related to some of the credit and debit card fraud about which we and others have posted frequently. Apparently, one of the focuses is Citibank and ATM machines in and around Park Slope. She is looking to talk with victims […]

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Tags: Crime · Park Slope

Park Slope Plymouth K Car Mugger Update

March 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last weekend, we posted the bizarre story of a Park Slope mugging in which the criminal got out of and drove off in an old Plymouth. At that time, the victim wrote in a Park Slope Parents email: It seems that this is a NEW kind of mugging, apparently the police had never heard of […]

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Tags: Crime · Park Slope

Bklink: Dumbo Crime at Night

March 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Dumbo Crime at Night

“On Thursday night, there was a robbery on the corner of Front and Washington Street. Another story said that the “same group” jumped a man and tried to “pull his eye socket out”. In another incident, the group pulled a man between cars and mugged him…With the increased number of families in the area, we […]

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Tags: Crime · Dumbo · Shortlink