Celebrating Community
On January 10, the New York City Police Department released footage from an officer-involved shooting that took place in the Gowanus Houses on October 15, 2019. Plainclothesmen Henry Neumann and Matthew Schmalix interrupted a gunfight in progress between 30-year-old Nasheem Prioleau and an unnamed civilian on Baltic Street and fired 31 shots at Prioleau, who subsequently died at Brooklyn Hospital. […]
On the first Wednesday of each month, the community council of the 76th precinct brings together the police and the public. The latest meeting was held this past November 7th, and was host to some sadness as well as a touch of nuttiness. Council president Jerry Armer began the meeting with the sad news.“Last April, Marie Gambardella, who was the […]
At a time when community policing is taking off throughout the city and Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCO’s) have been making themselves available throughout the Red Hook Community, the Red Hook Initiative (RHI) has issued a report condemning local police for being a root cause of violence in Red Hook. RHI’S Real Rite Anti-Violence Research Group, a group that includes Tyneisha […]
Terence Williams grew up in East New York, Brooklyn. Five years ago, Williams joined the New York Police Department, and on December 8 Officer Williams will graduate from the Red Hook Justice Center’s Peacemaking program. The Peacemaking program adapts Native American conflict resolution strategies to New York City court cases within the Justice Center’s catchment area – police precincts 72, […]
The first annual Unity in the Community event with Red Hook youth and the NYPD was held in Red Hook on July 30. The day began at 3 pm with street soccer on the fields in Bush Clinton Park, and later four basketball games took place at the Miccio Community Center. According to Councilman Carlos Menchaca, who played in both […]
The 76th Precinct Community Council meeting was held on Tuesday, January 5th featuring Port Authority representatives discussing counter-terrorism and security around the Red Hook container port and The Civilian Complaint Review Board was on hand to give a presentation on citizens’ rights. Captain Elliot Colon took the podium first, starting with the monthly crime statistics report. The latest report showed […]
Captain Elliot Colon led the 76th Precinct Community Council meeting at a packed house at 191 Union Street on Tuesday, October 6th. Community Affairs and Crime Prevention officers were on hand as were members from government agencies, the Red Hook Justice Center and The Visitation Church. Captain’s Recap The meeting commenced with Captain Colon’s report covering crime statistics and news […]
Captain Justin Lenz, head of the 76th Precinct since October 2013, tweeted that his last day at the precinct was “bittersweet.” We feel the same way. Lenz, who was transferred to the 101’st Precinct in the Rockaway’s at the beginning of this month, was one of the reasons we felt that the Red Hook community has been very lucky lately. […]
CORRECTION: Mr. Boomer who was apprehended in Virginia is the father of the Bobby Boomer who was arrested for a shooting two years ago. We have corrected the error in the story below. Bobby Boomer, Red Hook resident and alleged shooter of Tony Sterling on October 5th, was apprehended in Virginia and is in custody, being held at the […]
We get press releases on all manners of subjects from Borough President Eric Adams. For the first time we have gotten something that we feel is important to our readers. Especially after our front page article on policing in Red Hook and Carroll Gardens, which we find much improved, probably due in large part to the positive attitude of Captain […]