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Day: September 5, 2024
A Crown Heights man was shot and killed in a Bed-Stuy subway station late on Wednesday night, according to police.
Law enforcement sources said the victim — 47-year-old Freddie Weston of Sterling Place — was killed next to a MetroCard vending machine at the Rockaway Avenue train station in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 11:14 p.m. on Sept. 4.
Officers from the 73rd Precinct and NYPD Transit District 33 found Weston on the station’s mezzanine level, next to the vending machine, with a single gunshot wound to his head.
Paramedics rushed Weston to Brookdale University Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Sources familiar with the case said that so far, detectives have not located any witnesses to the shooting, and that an MTA worker heard the shot before making the grim discovery and contacting police. One bullet casing was also found at the scene.
The Rockaway Avenue station was immediately shut down and police officials could be seen hurriedly rushing up and down the staircase leading to the C line into the early morning hours.
The NYPD did not immediately have a description of a perpetrator. Detectives are now canvassing security video taken in and around the station, hoping to find clues that lead them to Weston’s killer.
As of Thursday morning, no arrests had been in the ongoing investigation.
The killing was the fourth shooting death in New York City’s subways this year, according to Gothamist. Three of those killings, including Weston’s, occurred in Brooklyn — in January, 45-year-old Richard Henderson was shot and killed on board a train at the Franklin Avenue station in Crown Heights, and a 36-year-old man was shot in the head during a fight at Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets station in March.
Despite those shootings, transit crime is down across the city. Officials on Wednesday said 2024 has so far been the safest year for subway crime since 2010 — not counting the pandemic, when ridership was uncharacteristically low — and both homicides and shootings are also down citywide so far this year.
But the 73rd Precinct, where Wednesday’s shooting took place, is an outlier, per the latest NYPD statistics. In 2024, homicide in the precinct is up 116.7% compared to last year, and shootings are up 20%. Transit crime in the precinct has climbed, with 44 total incidents reported so far this year, up 41.9%.
Anyone with information regarding the incident or the perpetrator’s whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (formerly Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
A version of this story first appeared on Brooklyn Paper’s sister site amNewYork.
— Additional reporting by Kirstyn Brendlen
New York City opened 24 new public schools on Thursday, the first day students returned to the classroom to start the next academic year.
The schools, which accommodate grades K through 12, are located in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. The new buildings come outfitted with a variety of new learning spaces, including reading and speech resource rooms, art and music classrooms, science labs and prep rooms, special education classrooms, libraries, gyms, and auditoriums.
The buildings bring more than 11,000 new seats to the public school system, NYC Mayor Eric Adams said, adding that the buildings will have “state-of-the-art” technology.
“With modern and flexible spaces, state-of-the-art technology, science labs, music rooms, sensory gyms, and more, these new schools are going to be incredible spaces for students and staff alike, will play a crucial role in fostering a sense of well-being for our children, and will help us build a safer, more affordable, and more livable city,” the mayor said.
NYC School Construction Authority (SCA) president and CEO Nina Kubota said the agency’s mission is committed to “create and maintain safe, nurturing and inspiring” learning environments.
“These new schools are more than just buildings, they are vibrant, dynamic spaces where young minds can explore, create and grow,” Kubota said. “They also underscore the SCA’s dedication to providing equitable access to quality education for all New York City children, highlighting the importance of investing in educational infrastructure as a foundation for student success.”
Here’s where the new public schools in NYC are located
Manhattan
Oscar De La Renta Educational Campus
District 6
3761 10 Ave.
K to 8th Grade
Bronx
P.S. 195/196 Addition
District 12
1250 Ward Ave.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
P.S. 87 Addition
District 11
4200 Grace Ave.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
P.S. 108 Philp J. Abinanti Addition
District 11
1166 Neill Ave.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
P.S. 138 Samuel Randall Addition
District 8
2060 Lafayette Ave.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
The Aurelia Greene Educational Campus
District 9
1302 Edward L Grant Highway
Pre-K to 5th Grade
Academy for Personal Leadership and Excellence Elementary
District 10
2347 Morris Ave.
Pre-K to 8th Grade
Leaders of Excellence, Advocacy and Discovery
District 7
639 St. Ann’s Ave.
Pre-K to 8th Grade
P.S. 163 The Arthur A. Schomburg Educational Campus
District 9
2075 Webster Ave.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
Queens
P.S. 32 Addition
District 25
171-11 35 Ave.
Pre-K to Fifth Grade
P.S. 41 Addition
District 26
214-43 35 Ave.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
P.S. 96 Addition
District 27
130-01 Rockaway Blvd.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
The Paul Vallone Community Campus Addition
District 25
18-25 212 St.
K to 8th Grade
P.S. 174 Addition
District 28
65-30 Dieterle Crescent
Pre-K to 5th Grade
P.S. 85 Annex
District 30
23-35 29 St.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
Brooklyn
P.S. 413 Joanne Seminara School of Law and Medicine
District 20
280 Senator St.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
P.S. 253 Addition
District 21
601 Ocean View Ave.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
Middle School 407 School of Technology, Arts and Research
District 20
650 86 St.
Grades 6-8
P.S. 321 Annex
District 15
753 President St.
3-K to First Grade
P.S. 464
District 20/75
1514 72 St.
Pre-K to 5th Grade
Pacific Park Campus
District 13
491 Dean St.
Grades 6-8
P.S. 313 The Detective Wenjian Liu School of Civics and Entrepreneurship
District 20
6312 13 Ave.
K to 5th Grade
District 13 STEM Center (room conversion)
District 13
One Clinton St.
K to 12th Grade
Khalil Gibran International Academy High School
485 State St.
P.S. 373 Brooklyn Transition Center at H594K
District 13/75
561 Grand Ave.
Grades 9-12
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The New York City school bus fleet was one bus short on the first day of school after a fire broke out on board an empty bus in Canarsie.
The squat yellow bus was parked in a driveway beside a private residence on the 1400 block of East 93rd Street and caught fire at around 6 a.m. on Sept. 5, according to the FDNY. Flames quickly spread to the home and a garage on the property.
But a team of 60 firefighters and paramedics arrived on the scene minutes later, and had brought the blaze under control before 7 a.m. No injuries were reported, though the school bus was destroyed and the home was badly damaged.
The cause of the fire has not yet been determined, and is under investigation by the FDNY’s fire marshal.
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