On Thursday, August 18, 2011 at approximately 0725 hours, police officers responded to calls of a body in the water at 3078 Gerritsen Ave within the confines of the 63 precinct. Upon arrival, officers discovered a M/W/28 unconscious and unresponsive on the shore of the location. EMS responded and pronounced the aided DOA. There are no arrests at this time, ME will determine the cause of death and investigation is ongoing.
Update11:45AM From information gathered at the scene.
There was a bar fight involving two brothers and another group that spilled into the streets. One brother was stabbed near Everett avenue and collapsed across the street in the weeds. He was transported to a hospital and is in critical condition. The other brother was stabbed and found DOA at the point.
Update 12:20PM Police are waiting on a warrant for a person of interest on 3609 Filmore Ave between 36 and 37th
Update 2:00pm The internet has identified the body as Timothy Murray and the stabbing victim as Ryan Murray.
Update 5:00pm The 63 has arrested someone in connection with the stabbing. A warrant was issued for Samuel Edison.
This is a breaking story and will be updated as information becomes available.
Warning: The below picture may be graphic for some.
Police last night were searching for 3 white males that fled the scene near Gerritsen Ave and Channel Avenue after someone was stabbed multiple times. This happened in front of the Laundromat at 2690 Gerritsen Avenue
Serious Assault | Searching For 3 W/m’s That Fled The Scene near Gerritsen Ave Brooklyn, NY | 8/18/2011 1:06 a.m.
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A 23-year-old thug Bevy court resident was arrested on April 15 after he dragged an 87-year-old woman to the ground during a purse snatching on Aster Court in Gerritsen Beach.
The elderly woman was mugged on Aster and Everett avenues at 3:11 pm when the thief jumped her. He ran off with her property, only to find a greater challenge — neighbors — who sat on him until PD arrived.
Channel 11 WPIX picked up on the graffiti story. Although their headline suggests that the neighborhood is taking on graffiti vandals, there are no current plans for any official neighborhood watch program.
Overnight graffiti appeared up on homes and businesses all over New Section’s Bevy Court, Everrett and Devon Avenue’s. Graffiti has been popping up on Bus Shelters over the course of the last few weeks as well as smaller unnoticeable places. Now it seems like the perpetrator(s) went all out and cause a decent amount of damage.
“This is a disgrace and totally intolerable,” a neighbor who did want to be identified said by e-mail. “I want to perpetrators to go to jail. These kids needs to be stopped.”
We have been getting word of small groups of neighborhood kids calling themselves a few different gang related names (yes, seriously)trying to wreak havoc but this may be the damage of a single person.
Graffiti damages our property, and impacts our community. Help eliminate graffiti — report it immediately!
We have been getting reports of Graffiti and witnessing an incline in graffiti around since the holiday season. Graffiti damages property, and casts a bad light on our community. Don’t let vandals take control of theneighborhood. We encourage everyone to help combat this problem!
Within 24 hours of graffiti appearing:
Take a picture of the graffiti (send it to GerritsenBeach.net, email info@gerritsenbeach.net),
Report graffiti to the police at 311. Do not call 911! (there are city and police units dedicated to following up to these calls ), and
Clean it off or paint over it
Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. Remember, graffiti effects everyone!
Saturday night, a group of tweens in the Old Section threw a ball-like solid chuck of ice at a pregnant woman who was taking her one year old out of her car. The woman’s husband chased after the group and caught up with a “kid that seemed no older than 10″. He let him go after a few choice words. The rest ran up to the skate park and scattered.
The police were called and responded – no report was filed.
Via NYTimes comments and confirmed independently.
I live in Gerritsen and just this Saturday a group of teenagers through a large piece of ice at my pregnant wife who was carrying my 1 year old son in from the car. Overall, many of the parents in Gerritsen take no responsibility for the acts of their children and to be honest, neither do the police.
It’s going to be up to the citizens who care to protect themselves so when social justice prevails, I’m sure these “parents” are going to wish “blog posts” about their miscreant children was all the happened to them. What will they say then? My son is only one and was almost seriously injured by one of these little hoodlums so I will do what it takes to protect my family.
Next Halloween I plan on patrolling the neighborhood and will not only be taking pictures, but will also be shooting video. Should a group of teenagers threaten physical violence, they will be dealt with accordingly since the police nor the neighborhood council of Gerritsen attempt to be pro-active in ending this violence.
Honestly, the Gerritsen Beach Property Owner’s Association should be ashamed of itself for claiming Cavanaugh is “unscrewing the community.” If anything, they’ve allowed violence to thrive and should be embarrassed to call themselves an association of anything. In my mind they are nothing more than a rabble of poor excuses for human beings portraying themselves as leaders when they are nothing more than cowards. Look at the comments here coming from outside of the Gerritsen community. It’s clear Gerritsen has made a turn for the worst.
A robbery took place late this afternoon around 5pm at “It’s All About Me Now” at the BUSY corner of Gerritsen Avenue & Avenue U. A female employee of “It’s All About Me Now” and her boyfriend allegedly removed 8 large black garbage bags of items from the store. They are being questioned by the detectives of the 61pct. All items have been returned and there were no reported injuries. The store did not comment as to if the store was open or closed at the time of the robbery.
We have received numerous reports that our local youth have been harassing the owner White Wave Laundromat (2690 Gerritsen Ave) on Gerritsen Avenue on a daily basis. This may have been due to the recent school week off but nevertheless the laundromat seems to be a timeless target for vandals. The vandals are closing the security gates (essentially locking everyone inside) and throwing objects into the store and at the owner. People are worried that this may be a potential hate crime in the making because the owner is a Chinese woman and the vandalism does not happen when others are manning the store.
Coming in Via E-Mail:
There’s a group out roudy kids… who are continuously throwing things, and close the metal gate down on the laundrymat on the ave. The owner is a nice chinese woman, and they do it because she gets crazy when they do this. They laugh at her for cursing etc. One day last week I chased them and grabbed a kid by his coat to try and make peace for her but he just coldly laughed at me and said she’s funny that’s why they do it. Its pretty close to a hate crime but not so…one day im affraid they’re going to break the glass. It happens atleast once a day. She put up surveilance but when she calls the cops they’re already gone and all the surveilance shows is the kids jackets. One day they threw a snow ball that was strong enough to dent her car.
We will post the surveillance video if/when it is available.
Investigators used green dye to trace discharges and found that fecal matter and toilet paper from the movie theater’s septic system showed up in the creek as recently as this year.
These are the four individuals :
Craig Novoa (top left), David Matalon (top right), Simon Shin (bottom right) and Alex Spivak were hit with felony environmental crime charges.
Hynes said the four men and their companies, shared a sewage pipe that they were responsible for maintaining. “Their private sewer system regularly broke down, flooded the parking lot, created noxious odors and regularly deposited large quantities of raw sewage directly into the waters of Shell Bank Creek,” said Hynes.
The alleged polluters were warned repeatedly since 2003 that the pipes were leaking. Regal Cinemas repaired the pipe in 2009 and water quality improved substantially. TGI Fridays and the bagel shop are accused of dumping untreated waste grease and oil into the creek. Deauville Marina is also accused of dumping raw sewage from a outhouse into the creek.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of four years and fines up to $75,000 for each day the pollution was discharged.
Regal Cinemas lawyer Austin Campriello told City Room “Regal categorically denies any guilt,” “Regal spent close to $2 million to fix that leaky sewer line, and we believe it’s fixed.
As much as it pains GerritsenBeach.net to bring it up: All weekend long kids were throwing rocks at people, buses and cars again from Seba Avenue Park.
One resident even tried to reason with the kids:
Tonight I was at the skate park…a group of teenagers ages ranging 13-15 were throwing rocks, scooters, and pretty much anything else they could at busses, car services, and houses across from the skate park….I told them what they are doping is absolutely dumb…but they dont listen. I called 911, and no response. They continued to terrorize for almost two hours. No one cares. Sucks man. This neighborhood is funny, the parents dont give a !@#$ , and apparently neither do the police. Ridiculous..
They were throwing rocks at the bus shelter while a young man was sitting there waiting for the bus with his girlfriend. If it would have broke. you could have killed one of them. Thats also very unintelligent of you all.
Ive never once in my life felt the need to call 911. However tonight, even I felt like i was in danger,and thats !@#$%^& up. thats not what this neighborhood is about. People shouldnt have to worry about a$$hole kids throwing rocks at them in Gerritsen Beach. Not smart guys. Unsafe, not cool, and totally stupid. it’s time for a reality check. Your generation is !@#$%^ up, and thats sucks cause you are all unfortunately the future of this neighborhood. Things arent looking up. =(
We have also heard on good authority that one of the Radio Control Airplane guys saw a kid that he thinks was involved in throwing rocks at his vechile and started to yell at him. The kid ran home got his father, and a how dare you accuse my kid started and the Airplane Guy left for fear of retaliation.
Editorial note: People have accused GerritsenBeach.net of “creating” these problems saying that they do not exist, have never existed and only exist because we wrote about it. They do exist, we are just the messenger. We hate these stories as much as you do because they are horrible to hear about and more horrible to know that it’s our kids. We only bring these stories to your attention to make you aware of what is happening in your community. However, If you have ever seen any historical Gerritsen Beach paper you would know that the issues we face today are the same issues that have been around since the year of the flood. We are judged on how we react to the situation. We have always intend to show the great things of the neighborhood and will continue to do so. We will show the “bad” when it becomes a neighborhood issue.
On Labor Day, we had a shoplifter in our store. People have seen him around the neighborhood, even though he is not from GB and he has shopped in our store before. I just want to get the word out so the people will be on the lookout for him and he doesn’t steal from anyone else.
Remember the Bevy Court Robberies? Well the police did catch a suspect.
The good news was that the burglar who robbed a home on Bevy Ct. recently was apprehended and jailed. He was traced to Brownsville, thanks to an alert citizen!
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