A 37-year-old man was stabbed to death at a Brooklyn bar early Sunday, police said.
Cops found the victim knifed in the chest outside Catch 22 bar on Third Ave. near 72nd St. in Bay Ridge about 2:50 a.m.
Medics rushed him to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn but he couldn’t be saved, cops said. His name was not immediately released.
No arrests have been made.
A retired correction officer passing by the bar on Sunday said the watering hole often gets rowdy and out of control.
“That’s not surprising,” the man said. “Things like that are always happening there.
“There’s always trouble in that bar,” he added.
A neighbor who lives nearby told the Daily News she hears shouting “all the time” coming from the bar.
“This has been getting way out of hand, this bar,” said the woman, who asked to be identified only as Sue. “A lot of violence, a lot of trouble.
The woman has witnessed numerous fights stemming from the bar throughout the years, including one in which a group of female attackers jumped a woman and repeatedly kicked her in the head and hit her with their high-heeled shoes.
“This bar is the number-one bar they have to close,” said Sue, who has lived in the neighborhood for 20 years. “They close it down, they change the name all the time [and] they open it again.”
The disgruntled neighbor heard screaming coming from the bar the night of the slaying but didn’t call 911 as the commotion has become commonplace on the block.
“It’s just become a dangerous neighborhood,” said Sue. “Honestly, I’m thinking about moving. I love my apartment, I love living here [and] it’s so convenient for me but now I’m even scared to go outside.”
“To have a killing right here on the corner? That’s really scary.”
The bar could not immediately be reached for comment.
The killing marks the first this year in Brooklyn’s 68th Precinct, which saw three slayings in all of 2023.
Last December, a Brooklyn man stabbed his mother to death in her Bay Ridge home because he believed she was poisoning him, law enforcement sources said. The son, Vlad Deshkovich, was charged with murder and remains held without bail.
