A 61-year-old man died after a 30-year-old tow truck driver allegedly punched him in the face, causing him to fall back onto the pavement following a dispute over parking Saturday night in Brooklyn.
The deadly dispute broke out around 8:45 p.m. at a Shell gas station at 1143 Clarkson Avenue in Brownsville, according to officials.
A 61-year old man died after being punched in the face at a Shell gas station in Brooklyn CITIZEN The man was punched in the face by a 30-year old tow truck driver. CITIZEN
The argument “became physical” and the tow truck driver punched the older man in the face, causing him to “fall and hit the pavement,” police said.
Emergency responders were called to the scene and brought the 61-year-old to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center. He was pronounced dead at 9:17 p.m., police said.
The tow truck driver was taken into custody at the scene and charges were pending, according to the NYPD.
Authorities have not released the identity of the victim.
To prepare for her trip to the Big Apple, the now-Los Angeles resident packed a bunch of her mother’s clothes — and a bright orange $5 dress she bought on the clearance rack at a boutique in Santa Monica— which she wore to a Grammys pre-party last month.
“Everyone comes to these fashion shows, front row in like designer, decked out in Prada, Gucci,” Perl, 22, told The Post.
“And everyone’s walking around with the microphone … ‘Who are you wearing?’ And I’m like, ‘Zara … and I’m gonna return it tomorrow.’ That’s just who I am.”
Perl posed in her $5 dress at the Grammys pre-party prior to Fashion Week.Sarah Perl
Perl always wore hand-me-downs in her youth, and can’t shake the habit of buying cheap and second-hand outfits.
“Growing up, fashion was never my thing, because I just couldn’t afford clothes,” she said in a TikTok video she posted during Fashion Week.
However, she now has the means to fill her closet with luxury brands. She earns $40,000 a month, mainly from selling her pre-recorded classes, which are based on the belief that your thoughts create your reality.
Her online road to success started in November 2020, when she was a college sophomore double-majoring in education and history. She started a TikTok page under the name HotHigh Priestess, doing tarot card readings.
In just one year, she had 1 million followers. Now it’s more than 2 million.
“The first videos I posted instantly got millions of views. It was … absolutely unreal,” she explained.
Growing up in Bensonhurst, she wore hand-me-down clothing.Sarah Perl
A so-called spiritual influencer, she gives others “the belief that they can achieve more, they can accomplish anything despite their circumstances.”
“Because, you know, given the way I grew up … this story that I was always fed was one of struggle … People like you don’t make it out,” she said. “So it’s always been my goal to show people that they can make it out because I did.”
She first left Brooklyn to attend a prestigious university in the Boston area, with the help of financial aid, taking out loans, and working two jobs.
As a college sophomore, Perl started a TikTok account and now has more than 2 million followers.Sarah Perl
“I was going to college with so many rich people … and I was in a program, it was literally for poor kids. And I was just looking at these kids who were getting college paid for when I was going thousands of dollars in debt,” she recalled. “My parents didn’t even pay for my textbooks.”
Her legion of loyal social media followers include people from her Title I high school.
“I actually just recently got a message from a girl from my high school who was like, ‘You know, I don’t even think you understand how much we needed to hear this story,’” she said.
Even the ones who once bullied her reach out in support.
“There’s people from the past who used to bully me and are like, ‘Oh, I love you,’” she said. “And I’m like, ‘Well, that’s funny.’”
In March 2020, Luba Dudenko was in a serious car accident and suffered fractures in her back and pelvis. She landed in a wheelchair for four months — and dancing in the sheets was out of the question as she recovered.
Dudenko soon realized that making ice cream was a sweet sexual substitute.
She had just founded Kinky Scoops two months earlier — with exotic frozen flavors like “Pop the Cherry,” “Snuggle in Bread” and “Sugar Daddy.”
Luba Dudenko had some fun with her ice cream at her kitchen in Williamsburg. Stephen Yang
Following the horrific crash on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway while sitting in the back of an Uber, the Russian-born Williamsburg resident spent two months in the hospital, where surgeons realigned her back using screws.
After returning home, Dudenko, 29, had to learn how to manage her constant pain — and lack of sex. She found scoops of stimulation.
“As I was making ice cream, I was like, ‘You know what, it’s giving me everything that sex gives me’ . . . And I have to tell you, when you find that perfect combo of ingredients and flavors, it is orgasmic. You have this tingling inside your body.”
In 2020, Dudenko was in a car accident that left her wheelchair bound for four months.Luba Dudenko
Now that she’s back on the horse, so to speak, and “actively dating,” Dudenko says she’s taken her ice cream to the boudoir.
“That’s the test kitchen,” she said, laughing. “There’s so many fun things you can do with it. It’s cold and it’s tantalizing.”
Her accident settlement has helped her grow her fledgling business, which began when she finally opened the ice cream maker her mother had gifted her years earlier.
The brand’s suggestive logo is a cone topped with two scoops, resembling breasts.Stephen Yang
She now makes every scoop — each carton goes for $11 — in a Greenpoint kitchen with real chefs. Ingredients are sourced locally, from places like Noz Market on the Upper East Side.
Some of her flirty flavors include “Stimulation,” sprinkled with chocolate-covered coffee beans; “Like a Virgin,” which contains extra virgin olive oil; “Orguasm,” filled with guava paste; “Pop the Cherry,” mixed with maraschino cherries and dark rum; and “C Lime Max,” infused with lime juice.
For Valentine’s Day, she’s debuting “Brie Mine,” made with the actual French cheese, lemon juice and salt.
Her flavor “Like a Virgin” is made with extra virgin olive oil and chocolate chips.Stephen Yang
“We really wanted to stay away from this traditional image of like a cow and a kid eating an ice cream,” she said. “Ice cream, I think, is an aphrodisiac.”
About six months ago, Brooklynite Gabriel Dunn was gifted a bottle of The Pathfinder, an elixir concealed behind dark glass, wrapped in an old-timey sepia tone label. He was immediately hooked.
“I was basically going through a bottle every week, or every other week. The consistency is really good. It’s a great winter beverage,” Dunn, who works in academia and runs a small record label, told The Post.
But The Pathfinder, which the 42-year-old said he typically drinks neat, doesn’t get you tipsy. The zero proof drink is fermented and distilled from hemp, and has characteristics similar to an amaro. According to enthusiasts, it’s a viable stand in for the real stuff.
“For me it was a great whiskey substitute,” said Dunn, who gave up booze last year.
Douglas Watters at Spirited Away in Nolita has issued a one bottle per customer rule.Tamara Beckwith/NY POST
Now Dunn and others are having trouble finding a $39 bottle of their favorite drink on shelves. Because even though there’s no hooch in it, it’s creating a major collective buzz.
Off the heels of strong holiday sales, Dry January, and an unfortunate supply chain issue with bottles, their waitlist is now 800 people deep, according to the brand’s global ambassador Kraig Rovensky.
Spirited Away in Nolita, a shop that sells nonalcoholic beverages, has instituted a one bottle per customer rule while other specialty stores like Boisson are out of stock in some locations.
This week, Spirited Away noted their one bottle policy for the Pathfinder. spiritedaway.co/Instagram
The Pathfinder has become the Pappy Van Winkle of the nonalcoholic drink world.
“It’s beginning to get a cult following,” said Juan Beltran who helps run Minus Moonshine, another booze-free beverage shop in Williamsburg. “It has gained a lot of popularity in the last few months. Three weeks ago, we got six cases in, and they are sold out. It goes quickly. It went from being one of our top sellers to our number one selling spirit,” added Beltran, who drinks his over a large ice cube, or with some bitters and an orange twist. He also uses it in booze free Negronis and Boulevardiers in place of sweet vermouth.
Pathfinder can be enjoyed neat, or made into a cocktail. Pathfinder
But the creators of The Pathfinder, a group of liquor industry veterans, weren’t aiming to be elusive or exclusive.
“For us, we wanted to make something that would tantalize the senses and if you were drinking it, you wouldn’t feel like you were at the kid’s table,” Rovensky told The Post.
Initially launched in June 2021 in Seattle, makers started selling it nationwide in January 2022 and saw explosive growth month over month. But this past December as holidays approached and word of mouth spread, their figures doubled from November — and their popularity has only grown.
Juan Beltran of Minus Moonshine says Pathfinder is their top selling non alcoholic spirit.courtesy of Minus Moonshine
“It’s in high demand. It’s unique and unlike anything else I sell. It’s a distinct flavor,” said Douglas Watters, who owns Spirited Away, where there’s a one-bottle-per-customer rule for the popular beverage.
“We got a new shipment, and I want to make sure this lasts since I know they are facing some production issues.”
In addition to retail outlets, The Pathfinder can also be found behind the bar at hotspots like Death and Co, Mace, Sunken Harbor Club and Eleven Madison Park.
“We have won over a lot of skeptics,” said Rovensky.
He said the bottle situation is being resolved and they hope to have a production run done by early March.
“I’ve been bartending for years, and I don’t like to tell people no,” he quipped.
A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murdering an older Brooklyn teen during an after-school fight over a girl, cops said Monday.
Two other boys, ages 14 and 15 — and both with previous felony arrests — were busted in the heinous crime as well, charged with assault and gang-assault raps, police said.
The three young accused hoods turned themselves in to police Sunday night in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old high-school senior Nyheem Wright, who was killed in front of his twin brother in a parking lot in Coney Island on the afternoon of Jan. 20.
The suspects’ names were not released by the NYPD because of their ages.
The oldest suspect has been busted in the past for assault, grand larceny and criminal possession of a loaded firearm, cops said.
Nyheem Wright was stabbed to death in front of his brother, Raheem. Facebook
The 14-year-old has been arrested for two previous robberies, police said.
The busts come as the NYPD grapples with what city Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell has called a “deficient” juvenile criminal-justice system hampered by the state’s “Raise the Age” statute.
The statute, signed into law by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, took effect in October 2019, upping the age for a teen to face adult charges to 18, from the previous 16- and 17-year-old threshold.
Since then, police statistics show drastically fewer arrests in the seven major crimes and gun cases for under-18 suspects.
Cops said Nyheem’s senseless slaying stemmed from a dispute over a girl, and the teen’s mother, Simone Brooks, has told The Post that his stricken sibling, Raheem, “stayed with his twin brother the whole time,” trying to help him and then watching him die.
“I was on the phone with [Raheem] … and when the ambulance came, they kept saying, ‘[Nyheem’s] losing a lot of blood, he’s losing a lot of blood!’ ” Brooks said.
Two of the arrested teens have prior felony arrests, cops said. Peter Gerber
Brooks said Nyheem’s wound severed a major artery.
“There was nothing anyone could have done because the blood would just drain right out,” she said.
The principal of Nyheem’s school, K728 Liberation Diploma Plus High School, spent the night at the hospital with the family trying to help comfort them before his death, Brooks said.
After the teen’s death, city schools Chancellor David Banks tweeted, “I spoke with the young man’s principal this evening, who described him as a joyful leader.
“He was on the verge of graduation, and was a hard worker who took an active role in leading other young people at his school,” Banks wrote of Nyheem.
Nyheem Wright was remembered by his principal as a “joyful leader.”Gregory P. Mango
Brooks told The Post before the arrests that she wanted the “little punks” who killed her son to pay.
“These ones nowadays, they all want to pull weapons,” Brooks, 50, said at the time. “They don’t want to fight it out because they’re just little punks.”
“We want justice for my son Nyheem because he did not deserve this, and we are not OK.”
A crew of masked thieves pulled off a brazen smash-and-grab heist at a high-end Brooklyn jewelry store — making off with up to $2 million in gems in less than a minute.
Employees and shoppers were still inside Facets Jewelry in Park Slope around 5 p.m. Sunday when the three crooks stormed in, threatened to shoot a worker and began smashing display cases with hammers, police and witnesses said.
“I am shocked,” shop owner Irina Sulay told The Post on Monday. “Honestly, it’s very scary. I couldn’t even talk yesterday. I was hyperventilating, crying, sobbing, shaking.
“The whole thing lasted 38 seconds. They took two and a half full cases of diamond engagement rings, newer pieces we’ve designed in-house and pieces we’ve collected — art deco and Edwardian rings,” she said. “I want to say 100 rings.” Sulay said the stolen goods are valued at between $1 million and $2 million.
Thieves made off with up to $2 million in valuables from Facets Jewelry in Park Slope on Sunday.Google Maps
The owner said she was helping a customer when the three crooks showed up outside, with two lingering and the third ringing the buzzer to get into the store.
“I always like to give people the benefit of the doubt,” she explained. “It’s difficult. You try not to racially profile anyone and not be judgmental or discriminatory.
Once inside, she said, “the guy reaches into his pocket and pulls out a hammer — I didn’t even understand how a hammer could fit in there — and he says, ‘and this is how you use a hammer.’ He smashed three of our main displays.”
She said one of her employees reached for the phone, “but she’s shaking so she hands the phone to me and that’s when the guy in the door yells, ‘Don’t move! What the f–k are you going? I’m going to shoot you!’”
The three then took off with the merchandise and remain on the loose.
No one was physically hurt in the robbery — nor did the thieves actually display a gun.
But the incident nonetheless left workers and customers shaken, Sulay said.
“Just yesterday we were talking about the new year, that it was going to be a good year, and eight days later an insane situation has occurred,” she said.
“This is a woman-run business. We’re all mothers. There’s three women in the front.”
Thieves made off with up to $2 million in goods from Facets Jewelry in Park Slope.Google Maps
The city’s latest subway crimes include a teenager being bitten and stabbed by a baby-faced suspect when the victim confronted a group of people vaping on a Brooklyn platform, cops say.
Two days earlier, a trio of creeps also mugged a 21-year-old man of his cell phone as he waited for an F train in Queens, authorities said.
The bitten 19-year-old victim had been waiting for a C train at Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday when he clashed with six people who were vaping nearby, authorities said.
The young-looking suspect, shown in surveillance images released by the NYPD on Sunday night, then knifed the victim in the torso and bit him on the forearm, cops said.
A surveillance photo shows the baby-faced suspect in the attack on a 19-year-old victim inside the Pennsylvania Avenue station.NYPD
The victim was taken to Interfaith Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
Photos show the assailant wearing a black jacket over a red hoodie and black pants.
Last month, three creeps mugged a man of his phone in Queens, authorities said.
Video shows a trio mugging a 21-year-old man as he waited for an F train at Parsons Boulevard.DCPI
That victim was standing on the platform at the Parsons Boulevard station in Jamaica Hills around 8 a.m. Nov. 21 when the group surrounded him, punched him in the face and grabbed his phone, video released by the NYPD shows.
The victim refused medical attention, cops said.
Police are still looking to track down the suspects.
Deputy Brooklyn Borough President Diana Richardson will soon be ousted from borough hall following reports that she created a “toxic” workplace.
Richardson’s boss, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, has fired her following complaints of bad behavior — including physical violence — from staff and constituents, according to the Daily News.
A spokesperson for borough hall told the paper that Richardson “will no longer serve at Brooklyn Borough Hall” beginning next week.
Richardson, former Crown Heights assemblywoman, joined Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso’s Borough Hall team before he fired her. Stefan Jeremiah for New York Pos
The former Crown Heights assemblywoman left office to join Reynoso’s team at borough hall.
In that role, she allegedly cursed out staffers, violated COVID-19 protocols, stored a bottle of vodka in her office and nearly fought the head of an anti-violence program, multiple sources aware of the situation told the Daily News.
In the latter incident, Richardson got into a disagreement with Camara Jackson, the head of the anti-violence and mentoring program Elite Learners, and had to be separated from her, Jackson told the paper.
Richardson’s behavior and treatment of staffers got so bad that she was asked to work remotely in order to limit her interactions with colleagues, the outlet reported.
Sources said she kept a bottle of Absolut vodka in her office and struggled with simple tasks like emails and scheduling, but would berate borough hall staffers, according to the Daily News.
The Brooklyn pol had a controversial past while in the state Assembly before signing onto the borough hall team.
In 2017, she was charged with misdemeanor assault, harassment and menacing for allegedly beating her 12-year-old son with a broomstick.
She confessed to beating him and defended the use of corporal punishment in a video posted to social media last year.
In 2018, Richardson made headlines for throwing an “out-of-control” tantrum during a closed-door meeting in which she verbally attacked Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie over funding for one of her pet projects.
Bolden lived in the same Avenue M building in Canarsie as his alleged killer, Erickson Jean-Gilles, 32. Police charged Jean-Gilles with murder on Sept. 27.
The men got into a fight outside the Canarsie One Stop Market on Avenue L on Sept. 24.
A witness told The Post she saw two men arguing with one throwing a liquor bottle and “the other guy began to stab him. He was swift like he was a professional stabber.”
A car slammed into a food delivery man riding an e-bike in Brooklyn Saturday night — leaving the cyclist hospitalized, according to police.
A black Infiniti hit the delivery person at the intersection of Grand Street and Morgan Avenue in Williamsburg around 6:30 p.m., cops said.
The scooter driver suffered injuries to his head and neck and was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens where he is expected to recover, cops said.
The victim’s overturned scooter and insulated food bag remained at the scene next to the Infiniti. The car’s grills were damaged on the driver’s side, photos show.
The Infiniti’s grill was damaged in the collision.Paul MartinkaThe delivery driver suffered injuries to his leg and head and was taken to Elmhurst Hospital.Paul Martinka
The Infiniti driver remained at the scene following the collision, cops said.
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