Three crooks who invaded a Brooklyn apartment at gunpoint, tied up a resident and stole his property last week remain at large, police reported. The NYPD on Jan. 15 released video footage of the invaders moments before they busted into a sixth-floor apartment on East 18th Street between Albemarle Road and Tennis Court in Prospect Park South on Jan. 8 at 4:50 pm. The trouble began, law enforcement sources said, moments after an unidentified female suspect delivered food to a 38-year-old man inside the sixth-floor apartment. Then, cops said, two men appeared at the victim’s doorway and knocked. When he …
String of anti-Semitic attacks plague Brooklyn during Hanukkah
The Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating a string of anti-Semitic attacks that occurred throughout Brooklyn during Hanukkah. The hate spree began in Williamsburg on Dec. 23 , when a pair of teenage bruisers attacked two children — aged six and seven — from behind, punching one of them in the stomach in the lobby of a public housing complex on Wilson Street near Bedford Avenue at around 8:40 pm, according to police. The next day in Crown Heights, a group of harassers hurled a bottle and a string of curse words at a 25-year-old Jewish man on Kingston Avenue near President Street at around 1:40 am, according to a Police Department spokeswoman, who added that the victim was …