Neighborhood Acts

1 week ago | brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Emily Davenport |Brooklyn Paper

The NYPD is looking for a suspect who assaulted a bus driver with a wrench in Red Hook earlier this month. According to police, at 8:04 a.m. on May 13, a 71-year-old male MTA employee was operating a B61 bus near the vicinity of Lorraine Street and Hicks Street when an unknown man boarded the bus. The suspect got into an argument with the driver, pulled out a wrench and hit the driver in the forehead with the wrench. The suspect then fled the scene on a scooter headed eastbound on Lorraine Street.

1 week ago | brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Anna Bradley-Smith |Brooklyn Paper

A major rezoning plan that will dramatically reshape a swath of central Brooklyn — replacing low-lying industrial buildings with apartment towers containing potentially thousands of new units, including affordable ones — was approved by the City Council on Wednesday.

1 week ago | brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Dean Moses |Brooklyn Paper

A man caught by cops allegedly urinating inside a Downtown Brooklyn subway station on Tuesday was found in possession with two guns and assorted ammunition, police reported Wednesday. Officers from Transit District 30 initially spotted the suspect — identified 49-year-old Darrick McCall — exposing himself and peeing onto the northbound track of the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets station on the A/C/G lines at about 9:45 a.m. on May 27.

1 week ago | brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Barbara Russo |Lloyd Mitchell |Brooklyn Paper

Residents and transportation advocates rallied in Canarsie on Sunday, calling on Mayor Eric Adams to bring a ferry dock to a notorious “transportation desert.”Led by Jibreel Jalloh, founder of The Flossy Organization, which advocates for marginalized communities, the group demanded that Adams open a fast NYC Ferry route connecting Canarsie to bustling Manhattan.