A collision involving multiple vehicles injured at least four people in Brooklyn early Monday. The car crash happened at approximately 4:30AM at 18th Avenue and 64th Street – just outside of Boro Park. The force of the crash caused some vehicle s to jump the curb, taking down light poles along the way, causing injuries to at least four people. The severity of their injures are currently unknown. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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An 11-year-old boy and two teenagers were killed after two cars collided on a decommissioned airfield in Brooklyn, police said Sunday. A police official told The New York Times the teens had been spinning out, “doing doughnuts,” at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn Saturday night before they crashed. First responders found two badly damaged cars and bodies on the ground, Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Ramdayal said. Four teens remained hospitalized Sunday, one critically injured. The young people who died were identified as Daniel Sidgiyayeva, 11, Margarita Sidgiyayeva, 18, and Emil Badalov, 16, all of Homecrest in southeast Brooklyn. They were riding in a 2014 Kia Forte. Another passenger in the car, age 17, was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday, police said.

One Saturday in mid-April, a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders held a conference call with a Minnesota doctor as they grappled with spiking coronavirus cases in their New York area communities. Dr. Michael Joyner of the Mayo Clinic is leading a nationwide study on the use of blood plasma to treat patients with severe COVID-19. On the call that afternoon, he told the religious leaders he needed something for his research: more blood from people who have survived the virus. “Do what you can,” Joyner said, according to Yehudah Kaszirer of Lakewood, New Jersey, one of the rabbis on the call. About 36 hours later, Kaszirer boarded a private jet with roughly 1,000 vials of blood stored in coolers.

New data from the NYPD shows there were 68 shootings across the city in the past seven days, leaving dozens of people wounded and nearly a dozen dead. At least 92 people were shot in the city during the period spanning from 12 a.m. on July 5 to 11:59 p.m. on July 11. At least 11 of them died from their injuries, according to the data. During the same period last year, there were 22 shootings with 30 victims, the data shows. Meanwhile, Socialist Mayor Bill DeBlasio launched his “Occupy the Corner” initiate to combat the shootings. Just a few weeks ago DeBlasio chose to disband the entire “anti-crime” division in the NYPD with all its plainclothes officers – who specifically focus on removing guns from the streets.

Prosecutors withheld evidence, elicited false testimony and made other missteps that contributed to botched convictions for murder and other violent crimes in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, according to a report released Thursday by the same office that brought the cases in the first place. The findings by a conviction review unit for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office also cited more familiar factors like false confessions, misidentifications, unreliable witnesses and deceptive police work in 25 cases that were finally overturned in recent years. But perhaps most striking was how they took aim at prosecutors for their role in convictions that put the wrongly accused, many Black homicide defendants, behind bars for up to 20 years.

ew York City’s recent uptick in crime reports could be partly due to economic consequences caused by the pandemic, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested during a recent Zoom conference with constituents. The conference, which The Hill shared online via its YouTube channel on Sunday, saw Ocasio-Cortez address a handful of issues related to law enforcement and police reform. Her comments came amid a nationwide push for policies that increase transparency about law enforcement practices, hold officers accountable for conduct violations, and decrease funding to departments. “Why is this uptick in crime happening? Well, let’s think about it. Do we think this has to with the fact that there’s record unemployment in the United States right now?” asked Ocasio-Cortez.

The out-of-control gun violence continued for the fourth straight weekend in NYC, despite a brainstorm idea that Socialist Mayor DeBlaso implemented to stop the shootings. According to the NYPD, 15 people were shot in the city in the past 24 hours (until Sunday morning). The NY Post reports that the shootings were more in one day than the whole of the same week last year, sources said. There have been 43 shootings so far this week – more than triple last year’s tally of 13 for the same period, the Post added. Meanwhile, DeBlasio launched a pilot program created to combat the rise in shootings, and was there for the kick-off which took place in Harlem on Saturday evening as the City closed out a fourth straight week of increased gun violence.

As coronavirus rages out of control in other parts of the U.S., New York is offering an example after taming the nation’s deadliest outbreak this spring — while also trying to prepare in case another surge comes. New York’s early experience is a ready-made blueprint for states now finding themselves swamped by the disease. It could also come in handy at home, as the region readies for a potential second wave of infection that experts predict will likely come at some point. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has offered advice, ventilators, masks, gowns and medicine to states dealing with spikes in cases and hospitalizations and, in some places, rising deaths.

Nearly four hundred people hit the streets of Brooklyn on Saturday to rally in a march called ‘Back the Blue.’ They held signs and chanted slogans as they walked down Bay Ridge Parkway. Their message was that policing is needed to keep crime down and communities safe. This comes after, they say, months of anti-police sentiment stemming from allegations of police brutality that started off with the death of George Floyd in May, and backlash since city council has decided to defund the new NYPD by $1 billion. At one point, about 20 counter-protesters arrived with Black Lives Matter signs. There were arguments between the two sides, as well as a few discussions, but their interaction fizzled out. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The number of New Yorkers hospitalized with the coronavirus fell to the lowest point in nearly four months, state officials said Saturday. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo is predicting a new increase in cases amid outbreaks in other states. “The only question is how far up our rate goes,” Cuomo said in an interview with WAMC radio on Friday. “You can’t have it all across the country and not come back.” The governor acknowledged the limitations in enforcing quarantine rules for travelers returning from states with rising rates of transmission. The travel advisory currently applies to people entering New York from 19 states, including California, Texas and Florida. “How do you catch somebody driving in, right? I mean, it’s very very difficult, it’s trying to catch water in a screen,” Cuomo said.