Heading to the shores for some sand and sun? Don’t forget to ready your beach bag. Sun screen? Check. Towel? Check. Umbrella? Check. Knives?…
You must be heading to Coney Island.
The People’s Playground has already seen its fill of violence this summer, with a sharp rise in murders, as well as several reports of shootings and stabbings. Three stabbings this weekend will assure a continued climb in the stats.
A fight in the ocean that moved to the sand left three people stabbed on Coney Island Beach Sunday, police said.
Eddie Cruz, 28, of Queens, and Reynaldo Hernandez, 19, of Brooklyn, slashed three others involved in the dispute, police said.
Their victims were a woman, 32, slashed in the head, a man, 24, stabbed in the back and another man, 20, stabbed to the head. All were in stable condition at Coney Island Hospital Sunday night.
Police are on the hunt for a man suspected of a stabbing over a parking spot in Brighton Beach last week.
The 48-year-old victim, Vladimir Reyfman, was sitting in his pickup truck on the corner of Brighton 11th Street and Brighton Beach Avenue when the suspect came to his window. Reyfman was asked to pull up so that the other driver could fit his car into a spot, but Reyfman explained that there was a truck ahead of him that was unloading, and he didn’t want to get too close to it.
The suspect then disappeared into a nearby bodega, but when he came out he went straight to his car, got a knife, and plunged it twice into Reyfman’s chest. The victim was taken to Lutheran Hospital and will survive the attack.
“If he was any thinner, the punctures would have killed him,” a source told the Daily News. “There was a lot of blood in the car.”
The suspect is described as 40 years old, about 5-feet-11 and around 250 pounds. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).
An early-morning blaze tore through a Gravesend apartment building leaving ten injured, including three residents in critical conditions and six firefighters in need of minor treatment.
The fire began around 2:45 a.m. in the top floor of a six-story apartment building on Colby Street. It was contained to one apartment, occupied by two senior citizens. The residents are among those critically injured and being treated for smoke inhalation.
Several ladder companies raced to the scene, taking more than 45 minutes to battle the blaze. Residents of the building scrambled to evacuate, using the windows of first-floor apartments to exit to the courtyard. At least one man on a lower-level was reported to be in cardiac arrest.
The injured were taken to Lutheran Medical Center and Coney Island Hospital for treatment. No word on their condition.
CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
A head on collision left a senior citizen and resident of East 28th Street injured around 10:00 a.m.
According to reader Ariela B., the driver was making a left turn from Avenue V onto Brown Street when a van from the Crown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center came “barreling down” Avenue V toward Nostrand Avenue and struck him almost head on. The impact sent the car spinning, and it then slammed into the corner pole of a fence on the block. Both vehicle’s fronts were “shredded” with car parts strewn everywhere.
“I heard the crash from my bathroom,” said Ariela B. “It sounded like a gunshot, then a huge crumple, then beep beep beep beep beep beep.”
Both drivers appeared to escape serious injuries. The van driver seemed totally unscathed, but the senior citizen had been “banged up,” looking bloody and his elbow was bandaged up at the scene. The reader noted he was conscious and moving without much problem.
One ambulance, one police car, and an FDNY van were on the scene within about 10 minutes.
NYPD, FDNY and EMS vehicles planted themselves on the corner of East 15th Street and Avenue Z this morning around 8:45 a.m. Though their flashing lights remained on, no emergency could be seen.
Officers in the NYPD car and the EMS crew were both filling out reports, while the firefighters were not in sight. An officer in the car wouldn’t say what the incident was but noted, “Nothing major.”
Commuters at the bus stop said they did not know what the commotion was about, and whatever the incident was did not appear to delay trains.
We received these photos and report from reader Eitan K.:
At about 9:30PM on 8/23/10 I was in the waldbaums parking lot getting ready to leave after shopping when I heard the all too familiar screeching of tires and a crashing sound. The sound was loud and startling, and I looked over to the intersection trying to locate which two cars were involved. Only when I saw the bicycle laying in the middle of the intersection of Voorhees and Ocean Avenue did I realise the horror of what had just happened.
Luckily for the victim, as the accident took place an ambulance with its lights and sirens on was passing through the intersection, possibly going to another call. Passerby ran in front of the ambulance to flag it down and the victim recieved immediate medical attention.
The driver of the black cab remained at the scene, and his windshield had a pizza tray sized bust on the driver’s side where apparently the bicyclist impacted. I wasnt able to tell if the bicyclist was wearing a helmet, but he was conscious when he was placed in the ambulance.
We’re hearing that there was some sort of a shootout in Brighton Beach yesterday, around noon. We’re told it was near Brighton 11th Street, by the bazaar, and may have been a drive-by. Gothamist Maps indicates there was a Brooklyn shooting around that time, but doesn’t give a precise location. Does anyone have any information?
Oh, would you look at that. An uptick in Felony Assault. Finally something different, eh?
CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
A Belt Parkway motorcycle accident this morning has left an NYPD officer hospitalized.
The on-duty officer was riding a department motorcycle in the westbound lanes of the parkway when he collided with a car near Knapp Street, according to CBS 2.
The officer suffered a broken arm, but was conscious and alert after the accident. He was taken to Lutheran Medical Center and is in stable condition.
