By Mara Zepeda The theater at Bay Ridge Preparatory School doubles as a basketball court. A dozen students congregate in the cavernous room. Some girls-black knee socks askew-dangle their legs off the edge of the stage. Boys loosen their neckties and slouch in folding chairs arranged in a semicircle. Other students are splayed on the...
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October 20, 2009November 13, 2009Business
Blogging Unemployment
How one jobless Brooklynite has created a community of “unemployeds” online.
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October 20, 2009November 9, 2009Brooklyn Life
Photo for 10/20/09: Russian Mikhail D. Prokhorov New Owner of Nets
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October 19, 2009February 4, 2010Brooklyn Life
Farewell to Kevin O. Hill, Son and Soldier
Army Specialist Kevin O. Hill was laid to rest at Cypress Hills Cemetery on Saturday morning, the day after his family, friends and fellow soldiers gathered at a quiet ceremony to bid him farewell.
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October 19, 2009November 16, 2009Religion
Old Greek Church
By Stefanos Chen The service was already running late when the priest asked the choir to join him at the altar. It took close to three minutes for the elderly choir members to walk or wheel their way down the aisle. The priest explained that the Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Church of Brooklyn was...
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October 19, 2009February 4, 2010Religion
Searching For What Soviets Took Away
The sons and daughters of Russian Jewish immigrants converse over frothy beers at the Jewish Center in Brighton Beach. They are here, ostensibly, to study the books of Jewish law, something their parents could not do when they lived in the Soviet Union.
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October 19, 2009October 19, 2009Brooklyn Life
Photo for 10/19/09: Giuliani Endorses Bloomberg in Borough Park
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani endorsed Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his bid for reelection at a Sunday morning breakfast hosted by the Boro Park Jewish Community Council, in honor of Holocaust survivors.
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October 16, 2009February 4, 2010Business
Living for the Weekend in Red Hook
On Friday night in Red Hook the streets are eerily still. During the weekdays, almost no one gets on or off here. But in less than 24 hours, Red Hook will be invaded.
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October 16, 2009November 16, 2009Brooklyn Life
D-Line
By Daniel Roberts Sunday afternoon. The subway ride to South Brooklyn is a quiet one. People sleep or try to read. But on this Sunday, the D-line is undergoing renovation. At the Prospect Avenue stop, the conductor makes a garbled announcement about this becoming an R-train. Passengers snap up from their stupor and look surprised,...
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October 15, 2009November 9, 2009Crime
Loan Shark Slain… and Mourned
Otis "Junior" Edmonds was a man of exacting routines.
Every morning he rose at 5, walked out of his house, went to the Classon Grocery on the corner of Prospect Place, bought his newspaper and his scratch-off lottery tickets, got in his car and read the newspaper before heading to work.
Except for yesterday when Edmond, 63, was shot in the head as sat behind the wheel of his burgundy Mazda 626, reading his paper.