A speeding driver behind the wheel of a Ford SUV crashed into a cop car in Kensington on Thursday night, sending three people to the hospital, and the driver to the slammer. The SUV driver, whom police identified as 29-year-old Moshe Cohen of Midwood, was blazing southbound on Coney Island Avenue at around 7:20 pm, while displaying sirens and red-and-blue lights common on unmarked police cars, per video of the incident. An NYPD spokesperson told Brooklyn Paper, however, that the vehicle was not a police car, and that the sirens and flashing lights were attached to the car illegally. Surveillance video shows Cohen driving between lanes of traffic at high speeds, including on the …
Civic gurus pan W’Terrace rezoning proposal
Windsor Terrace civic gurus rejected a developer’s scheme to demolish a local church and build a 13-story mixed-use tower in its place, with residents claiming the proposed edifice is simply too big for the neighborhood. “We heard very clearly many of the community members who came to the public hearing, height was a huge issue for them,â€� said John Fontillas, chairman of Community Board 7’s Land Use Committee. Members of Community Board 7 voted 30-2 at a meeting on Feb. 19 to disapprove JEMB Realty’s application to rezone land surrounding the International Baptist Church on Coney Island Avenue near Ocean Parkway as R8-A, which it requires to tare down…