Erica | Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:19PM 
File photo Dan MacLeod/ Brooklyn Paper
Here's some seriously shitty news to cap off this holiday week: Josh Rubin, the Brooklyn cafe owner who went missing at the end of October, has been found dead.
news Erica | Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 9:42AM 
This is the stuff nightmares are made of:
A man dressed up in an exterminator's uniform, entered an elevator in a residential apartment building at 203 Underhill Ave in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn and got off on the 5th floor. Shortly thereafter, Doris Gillespie, a resident of the building entered the elevator with her recently purchased groceries and also rode up to the 5th floor.
As the elevator door opened, the man approached and sprayed the woman in the face. He then "douses her methodically" from head to toe with some sort of accelerant while she cowers in the corner screaming and trying to cover her face. Then he throws a molotov cocktail in her face and sets her on fire. She burned alive in the elevator while the man escaped.
OMFG.
Kerri | Monday, October 3, 2011 at 3:00PM 
Well well well. Seems that a newspaper way over in Italy has picked up on reports that the NYPD is behaving in less than admirable ways toward Brooklyn women in response to the sexual attacks (to re-cap, one cop recently told a girl, "Your shorts are pretty short. Kind of showing some skin. Do you think that might make this guy angry, think he can get easy access?")
news Erica | Friday, September 23, 2011 at 1:50PM 
photo via FIPS reader Claudia (who took this from her window on President and 4th Ave)
There is a gigantic fire blazing right now at the Danken Auto Supply shop on 4th Ave between Sackett and Degraw. According to @Breaking911 "Heavy fire conditions throughout building. Fire through the roof." It's apparently progressed from a 2 alarm fire to a 4 alarm.
images via FIPS reader Kerrin Sheldon
photos via FIPS reader Mari
images via FIPS reader @eavesdrop_net
Also he had this to say: My friend (Brooklyn poet) Sharon Mesmer who started her first day as a volunteer this morning at C.H.I.P.S. (next door) said that the place flooded due to the fire, was evacuated and that women and small children who were staying on the second floor (temporary shelter I believe) ran out onto the street. The children were wrapped in towels as if they were being bathed at the time. Bad news for such a worthy place and the people it serves.
image via @coco_thomas
And according to Google maps, this is the Auto Shop on fire:
In addition to the fire, 4th Ave seems to be flooding at Carroll Street:
photos via FIPS reader Claudia
Apocalypse anyone??
news Erica | Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:48AM THIS SHIT HAS GOTTA STOP!
FIPS reader J alerted us to this upsetting news: A woman was attacked on a southbound F train last night around 2:25am. The incident happened at the Fort Hamilton subway station.
Apparently the guy put his hand around this poor woman's throat, while brandishing a knife. He then grabbed her purse, and told her take off her underwear. Not sure what happened next, but the suspect ended up fleeing the train, and thankfully, the woman was unharmed.
The police have released video of this scumbag (pictured above)."Police released a sketch of the suspect, whom they describe as a bald Black man between 45 and 50-years-old, around 5’10″ and 200 lbs., with scruffy facial hair and a stocky build.
He was last seen wearing a maroon sweater, dark colored pants and dark colored work shoes."
As of now, the police do not believe that this attack is related to any of the other sexual assaults that have taken place throughout Brooklyn since March.
(via CBS New York)
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