1 man shot, another stabbed in 2nd shooting in a week at Brooklyn corner

Orthodox Jews use bolt cutters to open W’burg playground again

One man was shot and critically injured, and another stabbed, on the same Brooklyn streetcorner where two people were wounded by gunfire last week, cops said Monday.

Police officers on patrol arrived at the corner on Bainbridge St. near Malcolm X Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 6:20 p.m. to find a gunman opening fire at two men, cops said.

Cops arrested the shooter, and recovered his weapon, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

One victim, 36, was shot in the chest, and was in critical condition, police said. Officers initially thought a second victim, 30, was also shot, but it turned out he was stabbed in the chest, cops said.

The bloodshed occurred at at the same spot as where two men, 27 and 34, were shot in the leg June 8. Police haven’t made an arrest in that shooting.

“It’s the same corner as the other day, except those guys were lying in the street,” said Hussein Ahmed, 19, who works at a deli on the corner.

“There were two people shot. One was lying faceup shot in the back. People were standing around him, but he wasn’t conscious,” he said.

Members of the Orthodox Jewish community used bolt cutters to “liberate” a Brooklyn playground the city welded shut because of COVID-19 concerns Monday.

The city welded a gate shut at the Middleton Playground in Williamsburg after the locks to the park were cut at least 25 times, Parks Department officials said. Hours later, workers removed the welding and replaced it with a chain, which Orthodox Jewish leaders cut Monday night.

A video posted on Twitter by @HQSatmar just before 6 p.m. showed three

Orthodox men, one wearing a mask, cut the chain locking the playground while a group of children with uncovered faces watched and cheered.

“Playgrounds across the city are closed for the safety of our children, and we will engage with this community to find a solution,” a city Parks Department spokeswoman said Monday night,

Gov. Cuomo ordered playgrounds closed April 1. On Thursday, Cuomo said it would be up to local municipalities to decide when to reopen them.