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The Chetrit Group’s plans
for the property remain unclear,
but Menchaca — who
called the developer “a local
nuisance for many years” after
the flames tore through
the building — said company
bigwigs came to his office
years ago and proposed constructing
a residential complex
there, which he rejected
because lot sits inside the
Southwest Brooklyn Industrial
Business Zone .
“Chetrit came to my office
in the first years of my first
term and gave us plan of how
they wanted to rezone. The pictures
that they showed me were
towers of housing,” he said. “I
said, this is a manufacturing
district, give me another plan.
They came back with towers
of housing and the first two
floors of manufacturing. That
is not what we want on this
site, we want to preserve the
manufacturing.”
A local preservationist and
blogger praised the councilman’s
efforts to protect the
building, which she hopes will
still be landmarked, and ultimately
refashioned to benefit
the community.
“They can be repurposed,
they’re valuable to the community
and should not be torn
down, and especially torn
down illegally,” said Katia
Kelly, who lives on the border
of Carroll Gardens and
Gowanus.
And Menchaca promised
to keep fighting to preserve
the warehouse, encouraging
locals to do all they can to
prevent it from getting the
wrecking ball.
“We must not relent until
demolition stops, and
the preservation of this gorgeous
beautiful building commences,”
he said.
A Sheepshead Bay contractor
the Chetrit Group hired
to raze the building told this
newspaper the developer plans
to pay the thousands of dollars
in fines, and request a formal
inspection of the site in order
to lift the stop-work order as
soon as possible.
“They want to demolish it
as soon as possible,” said Alexander
Rabinovich, a construction
supervisor with
Dimo Engineering. “For now,
the owner will pay all the fines
and I will have an inspector
come out to have the stop work
order rescinded.”
Should inspectors agree to
lift the order, the warehouse
could come crashing down in
as soon as four months, according
to Rabinovich, who
— along with a Chetrit Group
bigwig who declined to be
named — denied accusations
that the developer started the
2018 fire at the site, instead
alleging transients using the
space as a temporary shelter
caused the flames.
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84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–
Dumbo–Boerum Hill–
Downtown
A scoundrel slashed a man
with a knife while trying to
rob him on Livingston Street
on March 11.
The victim told the cops
that while he was walking on
the sidewalk, the perp came
up from behind and cut his
left arm demanding the victim’s
wallet. The villain then
fled towards Holy Street at
2:53 pm, police said.
Bag snagged
A crook punched a lady
from behind, knocking her
unconscious, then stole her
backpack on Middigah Street
on March 14.
The victim was near Columbia
Heights at 8 pm when
the miscreant attacked, then
fled with her backpack containing
her laptop, cellphone,
and wallet, said police.
Nightmare
A villain swiped a sleeping
straphanger’s backpack as he
rode the G train to the Hoyt
Street station on March 15.
The victim awoke at the
station near at 7 pm near the
Schermerhorn Street to find
his bag — along with his laptop,
cellphone, wallet, and
keys — gone, said police.
— Maya Harrison
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Diner and dash
A raider stole more than
$400 from a Fulton Street restaurant
sometime overnight
on March 11.
Police said an employee
locked up the diner near Clinton
Avenue at 8 pm on March
11, and the next day at 5:40
am, the same employee noticed
loose cash behind the
counter and that the register
was empty.
Crikey!
A raider looted a car parked
near Flushing Avenue and
Navy Street on March 15.
The thief smashed the
passenger-side window of
the car at 2 pm and walked
off with expensive electronics
and a crocodile briefcase,
police said.
Phony bill
A lout opened up a fraudulent
phone account in the name
of an Adelphi Street resident
sometime between Jan. 21 and
Feb. 20.
The victim reported on
March 14 at 4:57 pm that he
spent a couple of months out
of the country and came home
to his apartment near Carlton
Avenue to find a fraudulent
phone bill for more than $400
in his name, police said.
Rough ride
A rapscallion robbed a
straphanger near Washington
Avenue and Fulton Street
on Feb. 22.
The victim reported on
March 14 that while riding the
C train, some punk stole his
personal identification cards
and $400 from his back pocket
sometime between 3:30 and
4:20 pm, police said.
Looted
A crook looted a car
parked along Saint James
Place sometime overnight
on March 10.
The bandit swiped a slew of
items, including a cellphone
and credit cards, sometime between
the hours of 8:30 pm
on March 10 and 8:30 am the
next day, police said.
The victim said that his
wife may have left the vehicle
unlocked, said police.
Bloody
Police arrested a man who
they said assaulted a guy on
March 12.
The suspect allegedly hit
the victim with a wooden
walking stick near Hudson
Avenue and DeKalb Avenue
around 2 pm, leaving the man
with a bloody nose and mouth,
according to police.
Stylish scamp
Some villain stole more
than $3,000 worth of designer
clothes from a man on Fulton
Street on March 16.
The victim ran into a restaurant
near Hanson Place to
buy food for himself and the
crook around 1:30 am, but the
lout drove off with the man’s
Yeezy sneakers, Off-White
belt, and other expensive
threads, said cops.
— Natallie Rocha
78TH PRECINCT
Park Slope
Got his kicks
A thief made off with shoes
from a Seventh Avenue clothing
vendor on March 3.
The victim told police the
crook nabbed a pricey pair of
Trask shoes from the store
between President and Carroll
streets at 3:45 pm, before
fleeing on a gray bike.
Bad workout
Cops have given up the
hunt for the goon who cursed
out a woman at a Union Street
gym on March 9.
The victim told police she
was working at the fitness center
between Sixth and Seventh
avenues at 5:39 pm, when
the jerk barged in and started
chewing her out.
Doored
Some vandal smashed the
door of a woman’s 2013 Toyota
Highlander she parked on
Sixth Street on March 9.
The victim told police she
left her car near Seventh Avenue
at 8:35 pm, and returned
not 10 minutes later to find a
fresh dent in her door.
Hit and run
Investigators have called it
quits in the search for the reckless
driver who smashed into a
man’s car on Third Avenue on
March 2, and then fled.
The victim told police he
was heading towards Boerum
Hill near Ninth Street at 2:50
am when the other driver
merged into his lane and
smashed into his car.
The motorist then fled
heading towards Red Hook
on Ninth Street, and police
have since closed the case
without making any arrests,
cops said.
Bike bandit
A thief pedaled off with a
woman’s bike she parked on
Sixth Street on March 4.
The victim told police she
locked up her bike between
Seventh and Eighth avenues
before heading to work at 7
am, only to return that evening
to find her ride stolen.
72ND PRECINCT
Sunset Park–
Windsor Terrace
Bottles up
Some fiend broke a glass
bottle over a man’s head inside
a 61st Street nightclub
on March 12.
The victim told police he
was arguing with the brute
inside the watering hole between
Seventh and Eighth avenues
at 5:30 am when the guy
snatched a bottle and shattered
it over his head.
The victim, who was
highly intoxicated by the
time police arrived, went to
Lutheran Medical Center for
treatment, cops said.
Smash and grab
Police arrested a 32-yearold
woman for allegedly
looting a man’s car on 62nd
Street on March 8, taking
credit cards and a navigation
system.
The victim told police he
left his 2010 Toyota Sienna between
Sixth and Seventh avenues
at 12:30 am, and returned
at around 11 am to find his
driver-side window smashed
and his stuff stolen.
Cops cuffed their suspect
later that day, slapping her
with a felony larceny charge,
according to police.
Low blow
Cops are searching for the
lout who beat and robbed a
woman on 32nd Street
on March 12, taking her
phone.
The victim told police she
was arguing with the creep
near Third Avenue at 8 pm
when he slugged her in the
face and snatched her phone,
before slinking into a nearby
car and peeling off.
— Colin Mixson
76TH PRECINCT
Carroll Gardens–
Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Clothing haul
A baddie stole more than
$3,300 worth of designer
clothes and accessories from a
2017 Range Rover parked on
Luquer Street at some point
between March 17 and 18.
The crook stole a coat,
three pairs of sunglasses,
and a pair of sneakers from
the vehicle parked between
Clinton Street and Hamilton
Avenue at some point between
11 am on March 17 and
9 am the next day, according
to police.
Fashion crime
A crook stole a designer
fanny pack worth $625 from
an Atlantic Avenue store on
March 14.
The thief struck the store
between Court and Clinton
streets around 6:45 pm, police
said.
— Julianne McShane
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