Category: <span>Live Wire</span>

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney received a series of death threats connected to her fight against gun violence. Maloney reported to the police that the death threats were telephoned into her district office. Read the story at The Greenpoint Gazette 

A van driver was shot and killed in  Prospect Lefferts Gardens Tuesday afternoon. The shooting occurred around 1 p.m., with the driver crashing into a row of parked cars on Hawthorne Street immediately after he was shot. Witnesses described the shooter as a black male wearing a white t-shirt. Read more at nydailynews.com. 

Ebbets Field, home to the Dodgers when their title still started with Brooklyn, opened its doors for the first time 100 years ago today. Demolished in 1960, Ebbets Field was the sight of the first break in baseball’s color barrier, with Jackie Robinson taking the field as a Dodger April 15, 1947. Read more at Smithsonianmag.com. 

Edward R. Murrow High School from Midwood won the National High School Chess Championships in Nashville, Ten. Read the story at The Daily News

At least a dozen mezuzot, doorway decorations sacred to Jews, were burned in a Williamsburg apartment building Monday. Monday was Yom Hashoah in the Jewish calendar, the Jewish day remembering the Holocaust. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. Read more at NY1.com. 

26-year-old special needs man from Midwood is missing. Police are working to reunite the man with his family. Information from Sheepsheadbites.com

For the seventh year in a row, Brooklyn made number two on the Council for Community and Economic Research’s annual list of America’s most expensive cities. Only Manhattan was more expensive. Prices of common goods are measured in each city against the professional standard of living. Read more at Yahoo!

The NYPD is looking for two suspects who robbed a Flatbush department store on Friday night. The two men brandished handguns when they entered the Get Set sports apparel store on Norstrand Avenue at 5:50 p.m. Friday. They took clothing and an undetermined amount of money, no one was injured. Read more at cbslocal.com.

New York will finally get part of its aquarium back on May 25, seven months after it was slammed by Hurricane Sandy. Not all of the 14-acre aquarium on Coney Island  will reopen but many exhibits will, including Glover’s Reef and exhibits of Africa’s Great Lakes and the Amazon. Read more at abclocal.com. 

A man in his 20’s died after cutting his arm on a broken bottle during a fight over paying a bill at La Cabana Rodriguez restaurant on Flatbush Avenue. The accident happened about 4 a.m. last night. The two men fought inside of the bar and then went to the street where one of them...