Three men have been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 60-year-old woman Tuesday morning in the car leasing office where she works in Marine Park, Brooklyn. Carlington Haye, 30, Georges Etienne , 20, and Jonathan Nelson, 21, have all been charged with rape, robbery, sexual abuse and burglary in the assault. "They were creepy. I saw them walk into the building. I felt like I wanted to go inside and lock my door," one witness told the Post. more ›

Thank goodness: All is well in the world again now that the still-unnamed 10 week-old Yorkshire Terrier Puppy stolen from a Marine Park pet store has been returned. The puppy's owner, David Dietz, had been increasingly concerned that the pair of 15-year olds who stole the little furball weren't keeping up with the strict regiment of vitamins and four daily feedings. more ›

A 60-year-old woman was sexually assaulted yesterday morning by two men just after opening the car leasing office where she works in Marine Park, Brooklyn. Now police are trying to find the two men they say are responsible. more ›

Sure, New York City has a pothole tumblr—The Daily Pothole—that brags about "6,290,591 square yards resurfaced in 2011" but for some residents, the potholes that are ruining their drives and vehicles aren't going to be fixed in a timely manner because the Department of Transportation considers them "street defects." The Post reports that former Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Fidel Del Valle contacted 311 to report potholes in Marine Park, only to be told they were "sinkholes" and therefore they were the responsibility of the Department of Environmental Protection. more ›

A Marine Park man who allegedly opened fire on a crowd of rowdy teens outside his house on Saturday night is being hailed as a hero by the mother of one of the victims. Larisa Kaprovskaya's 21-year-old daughter Yana was hit by shrapnel in her left leg when Thomas "Teen Hunter" Dunikowski discharged approximately ten rounds with his semi-automatic Bushmaster 5.56 mm. One teen was hit in the neck and hospitalized, another got fragments in his left thigh and arm. Dunikowski was arrested later that night, but Kaprovskay says he should be hailed a hero, not condemned as a criminal. more ›

The city's wild teen population is rapidly spiraling out of control, and yet the guv'ment still refuses to issue hunting licenses letting citizens help thin the herds. And so one Marine Park man, fed up with the city's failed teen management policies, was forced to violate the law when he allegedly opened fire with a semi-automatic hunting rifle on a pack of rowdy teens ripping open garbage bags outside his home on Saturday night. Two teens were hospitalized after the shooting: a 17-year-old was struck in the neck and a 14-year old was treated for fragment wounds in his arm and leg—both injuries were non-life threatening. The Post reports that 21-year-old Yana Kaprovskaya, who lives on the block, was also hit by a fragment and treated and released from Beth Israel Kings Highway. more ›

You guys, did you know that you can sleep in the City's parks and not get arrested or mugged or mangled or anything!? Really! Every year, as part of the Parks & Recreation Department's Urban Park Rangers program, families are offered the chance to camp out under stars in eight parks, including Fort Greene, Marine, Pelham Bay, and the big daddy of them all, Central. But, in true New York fashion, it won't be easy. more ›

Two girls in 7th grade sustained non-life threatening injuries after getting hit by a deranged delivery truck thief in Marine Park yesterday. The unidentified, under-dressed man was attired in just black underwear and a filthy white shirt; he was not carrying ID when police finally apprehended him after his destructive joyride. The Daily News reports that before stealing the delivery truck, the man was seen in Midwood "munching on leaves straight from tree branches and menacing kids with a garden hose." Which sounds like your average fun Thursday afternoon in your skivvies, but then things turned criminal. more ›

It's no surprise that the stymied burglar who blew his brains out with a Beretta in Marine Park Monday evening was on parole and has a lengthy rap sheet. 47-year-old Robert Rementaria's most notorious run-in with the law (at least until yesterday) occurred in 1993, when he abducted and almost killed an off-duty Brooklyn narcotics cop, who managed to turn the tables on Rementaria and kill his accomplice. more ›

A 911 call about a burglary in Marine Park yesterday led to gunfire and the suspect taking his own life, according to police. Cops were called to Quentin Road, a suburban, tree-lined street, around 6:20 p.m., encountering the suspect as he left a house on the corner of East 37th Street. Police say the man opened fire, and an NYPD sergeant fired back, hitting him in the leg. He then ran around the corner, and police say that's when they heard another gun shot. more ›

Rose and Walter Martin of Marine Park want answers as to why their house has been wrongly raided by NYPD officers over 50 times. Though they received a personal apology and a Junior's cheesecake from Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, they still haven't gotten a full explanation of the computer glitch that repeatedly sent police to their house looking for murder and rape suspects. Rose Martin told the Daily News, "They should have listened to us all those years when we tried to tell them something was happening." more ›

For some reason, police seem to think that 83-year-old Walter Martin and his 82-year-old wife Rose are up to no good. Officers have been dispatched to the couple's Marine Park home at least 50 times in the past eight years in search of perps including a robbery suspect, an alleged murderer, and a cop accused of raping his stepdaughter. It's not entirely clear why cops keep visiting the Martins, but the Brooklyn seniors told the Daily News they've had enough. "I am fearful that if a no-knock warrant is issued with my address that my husband or I will end up having a heart attack," Rose wrote in a letter to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. more ›

The double homicide that took the lives of a Marine Park husband and wife remains unsolved, but authorities are expected to arraign four individuals for money scams connected with the 2008 execution-style killings. So far, no one has been indicted for shooting and killing lawyers Christina Petrowski-Schwartz, 48, and Mark Schwartz, 50, in their Brooklyn home—but investigators believe the killings were connected with "wide-ranging financial scams" that might have involved the deceased attorneys. more ›

A chain-reaction car crash claimed the life of a Marine Park senior on Monday. Edith Shaller, 88, was walking home from the doctor's office on Avenue U near the corner of Hendrickson Street at around 3:30 pm when a black Lexus sedan rammed a green Chevy van onto the sidewalk, pinning the grandmother against a light pole. more ›

As the Internal Affairs investigation on Officer Andrew Kelly and the potential police coverup of his DWI crash continues, yesterday the accident's victim, Vionique Valnord, was laid to rest inside her preacher father's Brooklyn church. Hundreds of friends and family gathered at the Church of God in Marine Park to pay their final respects. Her brother-in-law said, "We don't know how to feel. Sad, mad, but we are happy that we are able to send Veronica to the Lord. We will see her again one day." more ›

An off-duty cop has been arrested for an early morning DWI in Brooklyn where he fatally struck down a woman who had just left a wedding. Witnesses say Officer Andrew Kelly made no effort to slow down as his Jeep Grand Cherokee crashed into 33-year-old Veronica Valnore just after midnight in Marine Park. Valnore was trying to catch a cab after leaving a wedding at Floyd Bennett American Legion. She is said to have been pronounced dead soon after cops arrived at the scene. more ›

A Brooklyn woman tells the Post she's on the receiving end of a defamation campaign led by her ex-husband's friend, a prominent Orthodox rabbi. After Asia Teper of Marine Park separated from Shagra Kohn—both were born in Israel came to NY as teens— and took custody of their two daughters, Kohn allegedly became "ultra-Orthodox" and has been financially supported by his new rabbi friends, including Flatbush bigwig Yisroel Belsky. After the separation, Rabbi Belsky wrote a letter in the Jewish magazine , denouncing Teper's "descent into the abyss of immorality....without regard for her husband or children, she embraced a lifestyle that was, and remains to this day, the very antithesis of a Bas Yisraeli [daughter of Israel] and Aishes Chayil [woman of valor]." Belsky then went to her children's school and passed out copies of the magazine; Teper says, "Now [the school] won't talk to me. It's because I was dating someone. I wear pants and shorts when I go out jogging, and I don't cover my hair." Both Teper and Kohn (who hasn't paid $30,000 in child support and was arrested after taking their daughters out of camp and disappearing for days) have remarried. more ›

Yesterday's afternoon thunderstorms claimed the life of a NJ man in Newark while a cricket player in Brooklyn was seriously injured. In Marine Park, Brooklyn, Patrick Gibson had been playing cricket when the storm broke out: The Daily News reports that he may have lagged to collect equipment. A witness said, "His pants were burned. His tongue was out of his mouth and his eyes were rolled back in his head." Gibson had a heart attack and is currently in critical condition at Beth-Israel Medical Center. And in Newark, according to the Star-Ledger, four men were seeking refuge from the rain in a wooded area behind an apartment complex. All were struck by lightning: One died, while another remains in critical condition; the other two men suffered burns but are stable. more ›

The investigation into the double murders of Mark Schwartz and his wife Christina Petrowski-Schwartz is continuing, but some nonbinding wills were made public and were proclaimed "oddball...bizarre" by the Daily News and "weird...bitter" by the Post. Schwartz made it clear he didn't want to give anything to his estranged brother--"Robert, you have a choice, you can come to my grave site to say hello out of love or piss on me for not giving you money"--and requested "my body be donned in my scuba diving gear and that my body be cast over the side of a vessel into the ocean where I may rest undisturbed." He also wanted to "curse" friends if they didn't follow his wishes, including saying, about business partner Robert Delvicario (who is being investigated), "to Bobby, never will your gun shoot when you need it. more ›

After the discovery of Mark Schwartz and Christina-Maria Petrowski-Schwartz, shot dead in their Brooklyn home's bedroom, investigators appear to be eying people who were close to the couple. The couple's usually aggressive German Shepherd did not make a peep during the killings and was tied up in the backyard. The Post reports that "$180,000 [was] missing from an escrow account," and that the couple had a "falling out [with] a one-time business partner of the couple," who were divorce lawyers. An investigator tells the Daily News, "The couple discovered that this partner was stealing money from them." The police have not yet recovered the murder weapon. more ›

A Marine Park husband and wife, who worked as divorce attorneys, were found dead, shot multiple times at close range in their bedroom. Their housekeeper found Mark Schwartz, 50, and Maria-Christina Petrowski-Schwartz, 48, yesterday afternoon on East 33rd Street. more ›

The police released surveillance video showing a 62-year-old woman being mugged in hopes someone will be able to identify the attacker. This past Monday morning around 6:40 a.m., Patricia McGowan was heading to Good Shepherd School in Marine Park, a Catholic school where she has worked for 43 years as a math and computer teacher, when a young man approached her. more ›

A 16-year-old student at James Madison High School was arrested after a teacher discovered a note outlining a murderous plot. Apparently Badrakh Byambadorj was planning on both blowing up the school and killing three people-- according to the NY Times, "a teacher, a student and an employee at the McDonald’s across the street"--as well as others at an intersection. more ›

While New York is very urban, there are still many places where you can see some wilderness. Here's a list of the Parks Department's 48 Forever Wild Nature Preserves, which total over "8,700 acres of towering forests, vibrant wetlands, and expansive meadows" and include "flying squirrels, bald eagles, and fascinating rare plants." Flying squirrels! more ›

MOVIE: Nessie's taking off from the Marine Park salt marsh in Brooklyn, but you can catch the creature on the big screen. The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep stars Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin and traces a boy's discovery of a mysterious egg that hatches into the sea creature of the Scottish legend. Way better than finding a sea monkey. more ›

Police are investigating an attack on a Brooklyn-bound Q train as a possible hate crime. A group of people (WNBC says they were on their way home from Hanukkah celebrations) were called anti-Semitic phrases and then beaten up by another group of ten people at Canal Street. The Post has some more details: Apparently one of the attackers "made anti-Semitic remarks about Jews killing Jesus, saying, 'This is a Christian country.'" But the father of... more ›

The Loch Ness monster, who has been tagging the city, has been in a marsh in Brooklyn for over a month. A note to New York's mythical creature coterie, you only have through December 31st to catch Nessie so close to home. The serpent has made the salt marsh off of Marine Park homebase ever since Ridgewood artist Cameron Gainer placed his creation there at the end of October. Using boats and divers at high... more ›

Thirteen-year-old Bramdon Ragnot was found in a Brooklyn alley, shot in the head, yesterday afternoon. He was discovered around 5PM by a Marine Park neighbor who told the Daily News, "I didn't know he was shot. I thought he was just beat up. I said, 'I know it hurts, but keep your eyes open.'" more ›

ART: FreeNYC reminds us that the new gallery Honey Space is opening tonight with a little shindig. The night will include a solo show by Thomas Beale, "otherworldly food, homemade drinks, one New Orleans circus star, a 9-piece brass band, and the products of years of concentrated effort." more ›

Revere Demo by F.Trainer. more ›