Derrick Diaz and Jason Cuebas, two perps who broke into the Midwood home of Joseph Douek, locked his two kids into the bathroom and made off with jewelry, cash and a black Ferrari last year, were arrested yesterday. Through DNA left at the crime scene the two were eventually tracked down. Read more at the Daily News
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Brooklyn Life
Prospect Plaza to be Torn Down
For the first time in its 75-year history, the New York City Housing Authority wants to knock down an entire high-rise complex, Prospect Plaza in Brooklyn — a move that has surprised and angered a number of former tenants and advocates for low-income housing. Since the 1990s, public housing high-rise buildings have come tumbling down...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Defense in Suspect Abuse Case Questions Evidence
Lawyers defending three police officers accused of abusing a suspect in a Brooklyn subway station or covering it up mounted a wide-ranging attack Thursday on the case made by prosecutors, suggesting that forensic evidence may have been faked and that witness testimony did not back up the charges. [NYTimes]
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Atlantic Yards Not Brooklyn’s First Multi-Venue Complex
In 2010, we all have an opinion of the proposed Atlantic Yards Barclay’s Center, but how many people are aware that Brooklyn already had its own multi-venue sports and social center over a hundred years ago? Fort Greene was home to the Clermont Avenue Rink, one of the most important events places in late 19th...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn Schools Make More Headlines
The principal of a Brooklyn high school was removed from his post after he was anonymously accused of coming to work drunk. Ira Weston of Paul Robeson High School in Crown Heights was reassigned to administrative duties Monday, less than a week after the Education Department got the okay to close his school for poor...
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February 4, 2010February 5, 2010Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn Party Politics 101
Young Brooklyn activists get a civic lesson from their anti-establishment elders.
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Brooklyn Life
What We’re Following
More anti-semitisim in Brooklyn. After Ivalya Ivanov plead guilty yesterday to drawing swastikas on several Brooklyn Heights synagogues, more anti-semitic fliers were found in Park Slope recently. The Brooklyn Ink’s Yaffi Spodek reports. Beekeeping goes legal: From next week, keeping bees will no longer be illegal in New York City. Mary Plummer has the story.
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Real Estate Scam BBusts in Brooklyn
Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes announced the arrests of 12 people in a series of unrelated mortgage and real estate scams in Brooklyn. One of the men charged, Todd Graham, was first exposed in an Arnold Diaz Shame investigation in May. Graham was apparently posting Craigslist ads for apartments he claimed to own, but...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
NYC Poet Laureate Field Sort of Crowded
Upon reading the news that Tina Chang is to be Brooklyn’s new poet laureate, we wondered what kind of environment she’d be entering. Would she stand alone and represent the entire city by proxy, or would she have to jockey for position amidst a tangle of other wordsmiths? As it turns out, it’s a little of...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Scary Anti-Semite Now Behind Bars
Prosecutors announced today that Ivalyo Ivanov (not to be confused with the Bulgarian soccer player) pled guilty to drawing swatstikas on several Brooklyn Heights synagogues, as well as hoarding a chache of guns and explosives in his apartment. Ivanov, arrested two years ago, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.By all accounts, Ivanov was a committed Nazi...