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On Dec. 22, a homeless woman, Debrina Kawam, was fatally set on fire while sleeping on an F train in Coney Island, Brooklyn. ... but we still must do more because people don't feel safe in our ...
It's scheduled for 5 p.m. on Jan. 12 at the First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay on East 15th Street in Brooklyn. ... a measure of justice and New Yorkers deserve to feel safe in the subways." ...
Brooklyn straphangers were blindsided by R train closures over the weekend — even as some were relieved to avoid the Big Apple’s violence-plagued underground. The R was suspended from Friday...
November 20, 2014 – A 28-year-old Brooklyn man, Akai Gurley, was shot dead by rookie NYPD officer Peter Liang during a "vertical patrol" on the staircases of Louis H. Pink housing projects in East New York. Liang was convicted of manslaughter in February 2016; he is currently appealing the verdict. [89]
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the State of New York.Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then Province of New York.
Safe Horizon is the U.S.'s largest operator of child advocacy centers in an urban setting, [27] with five fully accredited Child Advocacy Centers, located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and the Bronx.
Kawam was asleep on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn at about 7:25 a.m. on Dec. 22 when she was set ablaze allegedly by the 33-year-old Zapeta-Calil ...
As is the case with sister boroughs Manhattan and the Bronx, Brooklyn has not voted for a Republican in a national presidential election since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 79.4% of the vote in Brooklyn while Republican John McCain received 20.0%.