From Courier-Life:
A crew of thieves with a birds-eye view of Sheepshead Bay broke into two stores last week.
Workers at Viva, which is on Sheepshead Bay Road between Jerome and Voorhies avenues, said someone cut through the roof on Aug. 11 and removed an undisclosed amount of cash from the register. Workers said that thieves entered the store the same way on Aug. 4.
On Aug. 9 thieves made it to the roof of the Leah Discount, which is on Nostrand Avenue between Avenues T and U, and tunneled their way inside, taking $950 in cash, police said.
Looks like local business owners need to start considering ways to make their rooftops more secure. Any ideas?
Here’s another burglary report from this week’s blotter:
A woman spotted two thieves breaking into her Sheepshead Bay home on Aug. 12.
The woman said that she was sitting in a rear bedroom in her Avenue Y home, which is between E. 11th and E. 12th streets, at 9:45 pm when she heard a noise and saw a beam from a flashlight pass by her door.
She went to investigate and found two thieves in her alleyway. They had just left the home through a kitchen window after stealing her laptop computer, police said.
Photo by MSniceguy
One of East 19th Street’s precariously leaning trees lost a limb during yesterday’s storm, which turned up jammed in this car’s windshield.
According to Ray Johnson, who sent in a mini-report last night, the car is between Avenue X and Avenue Y. It didn’t appear the owner was aware of the situation when Ray was on the scene (so if this is your car, don’t kill the messenger. Which is Ray. Don’t kill Ray. And especially don’t kill me.).
But it doesn’t look like the damage is just to the car. It’s hard to make out in the photo after the jump, but the other end of the tree limb is resting on the power lines, which haven’t yet snapped.
A reader who lives very close to this location was just telling me last week about the awful condition of trees and power lines on the block. Many of the trees are leaning or twisted. East 19th Street’s sidewalks bare the scars of unkempt vegetation through lifted and cracked concrete. The power lines weave in and out of branches, many with stress put on them, and some of the poles are leaning as well.
Is this a cry for arboreal assistance? Do you know of other blocks in similar states?
View more photos.
After we wrote up Friday’s piece about the car accident, in which a police vehicle slammed into a lightpole, reporter Ray Johnson got there to snap some quick photos. But, by the time they were in my inbox, it was officially my weekend. And I had a lot to do.
So, belatedly, here are some more photos of the accident.
View more photos of Friday’s accident.
Photo by George
Nostrand Avenue and Avenue Y was blocked off for about 45 minutes this afternoon, after a car burst into flames in the middle of the intersection.
The car was traveling southbound in the left-hand lane at around 2:15 p.m. After pulling into the intersection, the driver said she noticed smoke coming from the hood of the car, and the flames coming out of the sides. She jumped out of the car and watched from the sidewalk as flames engulfed the vehicle.
No one was harmed in the incident, which she said was probably caused by an electrical problem.
When we spoke to her, she waited for her husband to pick her up and joked about the incident.
“I don’t care,” she said. “It’s just a car. No one got hurt. I got out. It’s just a car and I don’t care.”
Firefighters put out the flames while police shut down Nostrand Avenue for a half block in each direction. A police truck came and towed the remains away, leading to the full reopening of the avenue by 3:00 p.m.
View more photos of the car after the fire.
Made you look! Sorry, I couldn’t resist, and I’ve heard the Congressman make enough jokes at his name’s expense that I feel he won’t mind…
Moving on, Congressman Anthony Weiner will be meeting constituents on the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Avenue Y today. Stop by with any questions and concerns. Here’s the press release from his office:
Brooklyn, NY – Today, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn and Queens) and members of his staff will take his office directly to the streets of Brooklyn as part of his “mobile office tour” to accommodate those unable to visit one of his three community offices. Constituents can come to discuss a range of issues and ideas and share individual concerns.
Who: Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens)
What: Weiner to bring mobile office to Brooklyn to assist constituents unable to visit one of his district offices.
When: 2:30pm—4pm
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Where: In front of Pathmark
3785 Nostrand Avenue, at Avenue Y
Brooklyn, NY
The photo and account below come in from reader Eitan K.:
At approximately 9pm on Avenue Y between e 23 and e 24 a chinese woman in her 60′s was struck by a vehicle. I spoke with one of her neighbors who said that they knew her, she was a very nice lady who lived there for many years, residing in a house on the corner of e 24 and Y. The woman was struck within eyesight of her home, just across the intersection as she was crossing the street. The neighbor who I spoke with said she was in very bad shape, but obviously details on her condition were not available. I watched the ambulance take her away at approx. 9:15pm. The section of avenue Y between 23 & 24 was taped off as numerous police officers were examining the scene. The driver of the car that struck her appeared to be a chinese man in his 20′s or early 30′s (it was dark) and he was speaking with the police, he remained at the scene and he was not in handcuffs when I was there at between 9:15 through 9:30. The neighbor who I spoke with also added that on this stretch of avenue Y there are no stop signs or lights, and accidents involving cars and pedestrians have been known to happen here, and she expressed a wish that a sign or a light be installed, that if there had been one tonight’s accident might have been avoided.
Graffiti underneath the train overpasses is nothing new, but I saw this piece of street art up today in a few locations. Could it be a new artist is plastering the area? Or is our favorite Red Fish Smoking back with some new installments? It certainly looks to be in his style, and is the same sort of sticker he’s been using for some time. Is it wrong that I actually kind of like this one?
UPDATE [10:21 p.m.]: By the time we got to Avenue Y there were no police present. We then got a call from another reader saying he saw heavy police activity at Ocean Avenue and Avenue T. He said he overheard an officer say, “He didn’t throw the gun in the bushes.” It seems like the two incidents could be related, especially if someone was making their way by car down Ocean Avenue, and then tried to get rid of a weapon before being caught by police. We’ll see what we can find out.
We just got a tip that “something major is going down” on Ocean Avenue and Avenue Y. The tipster said about eight police cars were on the scene and all he heard was “he had a gun in his hand.” We’re going to see what we can find out. Anyone with information, please send it to us.
Doing service in a basement garage.(Photo courtesy of Boris G)
This photograph of me was taken way back in January. Why they didn’t post me until now is a mystery to me. I’m just as glamorous and colorful as all those other carts rolling around the streets. It’s not my fault that I got captured and put into service here at this Ocean Avenue building’s dark and dismal parking garage. So, my resolution and color is not the best, but at least you can still see my always garaged race car-t red. See how I stand out against that drab car seat and credenza? Just because cell phone cameras aren’t made to take pictures in low-light conditions does that mean that I can’t be featured?
And the nerve of the Shopping Cart Post “writer” trying to explain away why it took so long to get me up, “Oh, oops, I’m sorry. I could have sworn I posted you earlier. I even remember someone (Lisanne?) writing in a comment about this being a basement…or something. I guess I was just dreaming.” Pfffft!
NYC Department of Health has confirmed that no qualified educational or teacher director was on site at Royal Crown Day Care during any of the agency’s twelve inspections, dating back as far as December 2009. A qualified educational director is a requirement for operating a day care center in New York City, and they’re in charge of activity and educational planning and leading the educational staff.
Educational directors must be registered with the DOH, and the agency indicated that Royal Crown had employed one on paper but that the employee was never on the scene. DOH could not comment further as it is an ongoing investigation.
Royal Crown’s attorney, S. John Bate Esq., said that it was all a mix up due to “some confusion.”
According to Bate, Royal Crown hired someone and submitted paperwork, but the woman never showed up and wasn’t on the payroll. Because of that, an Aisha Okoro was “slotted temporarily to do that role,” but it appears Okoro may have been unqualified.
Royal Crown Pre-School Academy and Day Care Center was closed on June 15 when the DOH revoked its permit after finding 14 staff members lacked required clearances and four teachers lacked required qualifications, in addition to the missing on-site educational director. The Department also found Royal Crown Day Care to be packing students into rooms and exceeding capacity, while not meeting the required staff-to-child ratios.
Keep reading, and find out about Royal Crown’s legal challenge to reopen the business.
