The child was walking alone, nearing the corner of St. Paul’s Court and St. Paul’s Place in Flatbush about 7:40 a.m. on Thursday when a man ran up to him with a crutch in hand, cops said.
Community, cops come together to beautify Staten Island’s oldest park
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. For Police Officers Michael Guglielmo and Brian Babiak, a cleanup of Port Richmond’s Veterans Park Friday afternoon was an opportunity to come together with the community they patrol every day.
“It’s a shared responsibility for the community members and the Police Department to work together to make an area a better place,” he said. “That’s the whole point of this just working together as one, collaborating as one.”
Babiak and Guglielmo organized the cleanup as a local 121st Precinct pilot of the NYPD’s “community solutions” initiative.