The Death of a Hospital
For the past few weeks, hope that a health care provider would save Jamaica's 108-year-old Mary Immaculate Hospital seemed to fade with each IV pole, ...
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NYPD Probe Incident Between White Cop, Black Detectives
nydailynews.com | By John Marzulli | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York
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The NYPD is investigating a confrontation between white uniformed cops and black hate-crime detectives who claim they were racially profiled, the Dail...
Super Mom: Melissa Lopata
Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
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When a woman feels creatively, spiritually, and emotionally fulfilled, then she has the mental and physical energy to be the best mom she can be: a Super Mom.
The Specter of Condemnation: What Isn't Public Use?
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
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Most observers wouldn't consider luxury condos and a privately owned basketball arena with lucrative naming rights accruing solely to the developer -- Atlantic Yards -- to be a "public use."
Fire Truck Crash Injures Several, Flips Rig
nydailynews.com | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
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Two fire trucks collided, injuring several firefighters and leaving one rig on its side. ...
Could the White House Save the Gowanus Canal?
John Petro | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
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The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn: both a site for a future Whole Foods and a potential federal Superfund site. Only in New York.
Drano Bomb Found In Williamsburg Early Sunday Morning
nydailynews.com | Sarah Armaghan and Jonathan Lemire | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
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The NYPD bomb squad detonated a suspected "Drano bomb" on a street in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, early Sunday, police said....
A Pileup of Lawsuits Slams Atlantic Yards
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
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Where are the charges of frivolity when it comes to Ratner's, Bloomberg's and Paterson's hardheaded goal of building the most expensive arena in history, in the middle of a recession and housing crisis?
Debunking The Heroin Craze
nypress.com | Matt Harvey | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
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HE WEARS A black hoodie to protect himself from the cold rain. The baby-faced guy is Dominican, probably in his early twenties. He rushes by me at the...
Nets May Move to Newark Before Brooklyn
Joe Territo | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
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The Nets attracted large crowds to two preseason games that they played in Newark and as a result are interested in playing regular season games there.
Robert Mormando Renounces Mafia At Trial
AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A would-be hit man has renounced the Mafia in a New York courtroom, surprising the federal judge who was sentencing him. Judge Jack ...
Bored To Death Writer Jonathan Ames Uses Twitter To Watch His Own Show
animalnewyork.com | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
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Personally, as a HUGE fan of Ames' writing, I find him enormously endearing, and his using Twitter to find a kindly stranger willing to let him come o...
Tens of People Breathing Easier on Atlantic Yards Issue
Matt Rodigheri | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
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A slideshow from the Saturday March by Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn.
Subway Train Derails In Lower Manhattan, 2 Line Rush Hour Delays Likely
nytimes.com | Michael M. Grynbaum | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
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A train derailment on Monday morning scrambled subway routes from Manhattan's West Side to Downtown Brooklyn. Straphangers should brace for an afterno...
Super Mom: Amanda Doss
Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
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I met Amanda recently at an October 2008 birthday party for neighborhood babies. She not only skates with Gotham Girls, but also runs two film production companies out of her home in Brooklyn.
Yousef Al-Khattab, Pedicab Driver, Promotes Jihad
nypost.com | Chuck Bennett | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
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This jihadist wannabe is a "terror" on the road. Yousef al-Khattab is a Jewish-born, Jersey-raised convert to Islam who schleps tourists on his pedica...
Circle Rules Football -- The Road Ahead
Eugene Michael Santiago | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
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As a boy, Greg Manley grew up in Oakland California. As a young man Greg invented a sport in New York. That sport? Circle Rules Football. Almost three...
A Bad Deal for the MTA and Its Riders
Gene Russianoff | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
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NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign joined in a lawsuit this week objecting to the rotten deal that the MTA struck this past June for the rights to build over the Vanderbilt Yards in Brooklyn.
Wilmer Rivera Melendez: Man Arrested In Brooklyn Fraud Scheme Targeting Guyanese Immigrants
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
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NEW YORK — A convicted bigamist posing as a veteran immigration lawyer scammed thousands of dollars from Guyanese immigrants and gave them advic...
Hotel Le Bleu: Park Slopers Complain Rooftop Bar Is Too Noisy
brooklynpaper.com | Ben Muessig | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
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Park Slope residents claim that Fourth Avenue's sky-high Vue Restaurant and Lounge isn't just on the roof -- its noise levels are through it!...
MTA: F Train Is Slowest, Dirtiest Of Them All
brooklynpaper.com | Gersh Kuntzman | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
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The F train is slower, dirtier and less reliable than other lines in the subway system, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority finally admitted in ...
Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, A Smelly and Unique Stop-Off In Greenpoint During Open House New York
Katharine Jose | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York
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By 12 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, all the free tours of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant were full. The tall chain-link fence gate was o...
After-School Program Builds Community For Homeless Kids And Families
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.14.2009 | Impact
At PS 636 in Brooklyn, one in five kids are homeless. But one after-school program, NYDailynews.com reports, is helping almost every kid at this schoo...
Brian Scott Dead: Cozmik, Rising Rollerblader, Shot Outside Brooklyn Coffee Shop (VIDEOS)
Eve Attermann | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York
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UPDATE: SCROLL DOWN FOR SURVEILLANCE VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING ********** Well-known rollerblader and high school senior Brian Scott, known as Cozmik (...
The Life And Death Of Army Spec. Kevin O. Hill
thebrooklynink.com | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York
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The minute Olsen Hill saw the uniforms at his door, he knew. He had served in the military. No words were necessary. His son, Kevin O. Hill, was de...
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