70TH PRECINCT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AGAINST CRIME, 2026 (FREE)

 

National Night Out Against Crime

Tuesday, August 4th

5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Join the 70th Precinct (Midwood, Fiske Terrace, Ditmas Park, and Prospect Park South) and its community partners for the annual National Night Out Against Crime on Tuesday, August 4th, from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. 

 

Highlights of the event will include a barbecue, a bouncy house, face painting, games, raffles, free giveaways, blood pressure screening, and phone and bicycle registration. 

 

For accommodations regarding any disabilities, call Detective Ortiz or Detective Nuzzi at (718) 851-5557 or send an e-mail to 70pctcommunityaffairs@nypd.org at least seventy-two hours prior to the event.

National Night Out Against Crime is held annually on the first Tuesday in August. The National Association of Town Watch created the event in 1984.

From the website of National Association of Town Watch:

National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live.

Location

Parade Ground

Entrance on Caton Avenue, between Argyle and Rugby roads

Brooklyn 

FOOD, LIVE MUSIC, RIDES, AND ACTIVITIES: THE 2026 CHURCH AVENUE STREET FAIR AND CRAFT FAIR

 

Church Avenue Street Fair and Craft Fair

Sunday, May 3rd

noon to 6:00 p.m.

 

From Church-Flatbush Community Alliance: 

Join us on Sunday, May 3rd, from 12pm-6pm for the 2026 Church Avenue Street Fair and Craft Fair (spaces for vendors and crafters available)!

The fair will stretch from Coney Island Ave. to Argyle Rd., with plenty of food, live music, rides, and activities for the whole family!  

 

Look out for a special crafts fair hosted by The Craft Salon and performances from Alden MOVES Dance Theater, Prospect Gymnastics, Cynthia King Dance Studio, and Da Fuzz Katz. 

This event is sponsored by the 70th Precinct, MetroPlusHealth, and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

**Vendor space available: contact 

info@streetfairsny.com (or go to linktr.ee/churchflatbush for the 2026 Church Ave Street Fair Vendor Application).

 

**To apply to be part of the Craft Fair, email crafts@churchflatbush.org**

Location

Church Avenue

from Coney Island Avenue to Argyle Road

Brooklyn 

70TH PRECINCT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AGAINST CRIME, 2025 (FREE)

 

National Night Out Against Crime

Tuesday, August 5th

6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Join the 70th Precinct (Midwood, Fiske Terrace, Ditmas Park, and Prospect Park South) and its community partners for the annual National Night Out Against Crime on Tuesday, August 5th, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 

 

Highlights of the event will include a barbecue, a bouncy house, face painting, games, raffles, blood pressure screening, free giveaways, and phone and bicycle registration. 

For accommodations regarding any disabilities, call Detective Nuzzi or PO Jewel at (718) 851-5557 or send an e-mail to 70pctcommunityaffairs@nypd.org at least seventy-two hours prior to the event.

National Night Out Against Crime is held annually on the first Tuesday in August. The National Association of Town Watch created the event in 1984. 

In the 1970s, as part of the Women's Liberation Movement, women engaged in their own non-governmental, grass-roots efforts, called "Take Back the Night," with the goal of protesting and deterring violence against women through their visible presence outdoors.

From the website of National Association of Town Watch:

National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live.

Location

Parade Ground

Entrance on Caton Avenue, between Argyle and Rugby roads

Brooklyn 

NEW LOCATION: 70TH PRECINCT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AGAINST CRIME, 2024 (FREE)

National Night Out Against Crime 

Tuesday, August 6th

6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Join the 70th Precinct as well as local organizations for the annual National Night Out Against Crime on Tuesday, August 6th, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 

 

Highlights of the event will include a barbecue, a bouncy house, face painting, games, raffles, blood pressure screening, free giveaways, and phone and bicycle registration. 

For accommodations regarding any disabilities, call PO Joseph at (917) 226-5709 or send an e-mail to 70pctcommunityaffairs@nypd.org at least seventy-two hours prior to the event.

National Night Out Against Crime is held annually on the first Tuesday in August. The National Association of Town Watch created the event in 1984. 

Prior to that, in the 1970s, as one facet of the Women's Liberation Movement, women engaged in their own non-governmental, grass-roots efforts, called "Take Back the Night," with the goal of protesting and deterring violence against women through their visible presence outdoors.

From the website of National Association of Town Watch:

National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live.

Location

ADAPT Community Network

175 Lawrence Avenue

between Ocean Parkway and Seton Place

Brooklyn 

(map)

 

KENSINGTON'S 70TH PRECINCT SECTOR C "BEAT COPS" WILL MEET WITH RESIDENTS TONIGHT

The Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCOs) for Sector C of the 70th Precinct will meet with the community at a safety meeting tonight (Monday, October 29th) at 7:00 p.m. Sector C covers the precinct's portion of Kensington.

The NCOs are Officer Dilek Kahveci and Officer Bryan Cipolla. They can be e-mailed at, respectively, Dilek.Kahveci @ nypd.org and Bryan.Cipolla @ nypd.org.

The meeting will be held at Pakistani American Youth Society, 1001 Newkirk Avenue, between Coney Island Avenue and Westminster Road (map).

The doors will be opened at 6:30 p.m. to serve refreshments.
 

70TH PRECINCT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AGAINST CRIME

                      National Night Out Against Crime, 70th Precinct
                      Tuesday, August 1st, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. 

Join the 70th Precinct and the 70th Precinct Community Council at the Prospect Park Parade Ground for National Night Out Against Crime.

Meet leaders and personnel from the 70th precinct and interact with neighbors, community members, and local businesses with the common goal of partnership and safety.

Enjoy a free, child-friendly evening of BBQ, rides, games, face painting, giveaways, and other activities.

Get useful crime prevention tips to keep you, your home, and your neighborhood safe. 

Have your cell phone, bicycle, and iPod etched for identification purposes.

The 34th Annual National Night Out Against Crime will take place on Tuesday, August 1st, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The Parade Ground is at Caton Avenue and Argyle Road.
 
For more information, contact the 70th Precinct Community Affairs Office at (718) 851-5557. 

This event is held annually on the first Tuesday in August.

The National Association of Town Watch introduced National Night Out--America's Night Out Against Crime--in 1984. The night's goals are to

• heighten crime and drug prevention awareness,
• generate support for, and participation in, local anti-crime efforts,
• strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships, and
• send a message to criminals letting them know neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.

In the 1970s, before the creation of National Night Out, people in several communities participated in a grass-roots effort to deter crime by turning on their porch lights, sitting outside, and talking with their neighbors.

COP TUMBLES OFF HOOD OF COP CAR

A police officer who was riding face down, spread-eagle, on the hood of an NYPD patrol car flew off when the driver stopped the car abruptly. The driver, Officer Michael Gargano, has been suspended by the NYPD. Both officers are from Brooklyn's 70th Precinct.

Witnesses called the cops' actions "horseplay." 

Officer Ahmed Shuhel suffered serious, but not life-threatening, head injuries. He was taken to Lutheran Medical Center. He too may face disciplinary action.

The incident occurred at about 7:50 a.m. on Monday on Seton Place, near Parkville Avenue, in Kensington.

CRIME REPORT BY 70TH PRECINCT COMMANDER AT PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING, COMMUNITY BOARD 14

Community Board 14 Public Safety Committee Meeting
Monday, November 17th, 7:00 p.m.

Deputy Inspector Richard DiBlasio, the Commanding Officer of the 70th Police Precinct, will be the featured speaker at the Community Board 14 Public Safety Committee meeting. He will

• give a report on the state of the precinct,
• provide an update on issues of concern to the community, and
• offer holiday crime prevention tips.

Those issues of concern include 

• a home invasion in October that led to Leonard Phillips' murder in his home on Rugby Road at Cortelyou Road,
• the armed robberies in October and November of
• Stratford Deli on Church Avenue near Stratford Road,
• Mimi's Hummus on Cortelyou Road near Westminster Road,
• Ox Cart Tavern on Argyle Road at Newkirk Avenue, and
• Lark Cafe on Church Avenue at E. 10th Street), and
• the January armed robbery and assault of a livery cab driver on E. 8th Street near Cortelyou Road.

In another note, the precinct's ticketing of pedestrians and cyclists who are passing through the Parade Grounds after dusk is not sitting well with a number of neighborhood residents. An online petition addressed to Prospect Park Alliance and the city's Parks and Transportation commissioners is requesting that they "Make it legal to walk and bike through the Parade Grounds" after dusk. However, a November 10th update on the petition site reports that "The 70th Precinct has vetoed any changes to the hours."

Deputy Inspector DiBlasio took over the command of the 70th Precinct in April of this year. He has been on the NYPD for 27 years, first patrolling the 61st Precinct and then being promoted to sergeant in 1994, lieutenant in 2000, captain in 2006, and deputy inspector last year. He's served in the 63rd, 84th, 61st, and 68th precincts and Patrol Borough Brooklyn South.
 
Committee meetings are open to the public. The current co-chairs of the Public Safety Committee are Gary Schultze and Joseph Dweck.

Community Board 14 serves Flatbush, Midwood, and parts of Kensington.

Meeting location:
Brooklyn Community Board 14 District Office
810 East 16th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11230
phone: (718) 859-6357
fax: (718) 421-6077
e-mail: info @ cb14brooklyn.com
http://www.cb14brooklyn.com

DEATH BY BULLET, NOT BY KNIFE

UPDATE: A DNAinfo article reports that Carvajal did not stab Laureano. It says that Carvajal lunged at Laureano, and police then began firing their weapons.

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After Kataryzna Russo's ex-boyfriend stabbed her current boyfriend in her apartment, the police fired 18 bullets at the ex, one of which hit the current boyfriend, Rafael Laureano. Laureano died at Maimonides Hospital from the bullet wound, not from the stab wounds (as was previously reported in the media).

CBS reports that through an autopsy,

"the New York City Medical Examiner’s office determined that his [Rafael Laureano] death was actually caused by a perforating gunshot wound to the back."

Officers had fired multiple shots at the knife-wielding Francisco Carvajal as he and Laureano were engaged in a physical struggle; one of the bullets hit Laureano.

Laureano was a bodybuilder, as is Russo. 

UPDATE ON KNIFE AND GUN DEATHS IN MIDWOOD APARTMENT

News reports on last night's stabbing and shooting deaths in the apartment at 820 Ocean Parkway indicate that a woman's former boyfriend stabbed her current boyfriend. The police then shot the former boyfriend, who died on the spot. They also hit the current boyfriend with a stray bullet. He died later in the evening at Maimonides Hospital.

Kataryzna Russo protected herself and her two children, ages 6 and 7, from attempts by Francisco Carvajal, her ex-boyfriend, to stab her by going into a bathroom in her apartment and locking its door. She called her current boyfriend, Rafael Laureano, for help.

When police arrived in response to a 911 call, the 51-year-old Laureano met them and entered Russo's apartment with them. He tried to attack Carvajal, who stabbed him. Carvajal, 47 years old, who lived on the floor below Russo, was holding two knives. He refused to drop them when the police ordered him to, and they shot him to death.

DISPUTE LEADS TO TWO DEATHS IN MIDWOOD APARTMENT

A man armed with a knife stabbed another man during a dispute tonight inside an apartment at 820 Ocean Parkway, near the Kensington/Midwood border. At about 7:20, police responding to a 911 call shot and killed the knife-wielding man inside the apartment. The stabbing victim died in Maimonides Hospital.

The woman and the two children who were in the apartment were not stabbed. It has been reported that the woman and the man who had the knife are a couple.

MISSING SENIOR: HUNGYUP CHENG

Missing senior
Hungyup Cheng, male, Asian, 72 years old, 5'3" tall, 140 pounds, black hair, brown eyes. Missing from Parade Place and Parkside Avenue in Brooklyn.

Mr. Cheng suffers from schizophrenia He was last seen on Monday, August 25th, carrying keys and a passport. If you see Mr. Cheng or if you have any information about his whereabouts, call 911.

SHOOTING AT CATON AND ARGYLE

Police report that two people were shot at Caton Avenue and Argyle Road, at Prospect Park's Parade Ground. The shooting took place last night (Saturday) at 9:27 p.m. in the 70th Precinct. One of the perpetrators is in police custody.