Two Brooklyn men were arrested Sunday after passing at least $700 in counterfeit $100 bills at a Danbury mall on Sunday. According to News Times, 40-year-old Kelly Battle and Lucho Hunte were arraigned Monday in Danbury’s State Superior Court after they allegedly used counterfeit bills to make purchases at the Danbury Fair Mall. Police said Battle also had several...
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October 5, 2010October 5, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn Man Fatally Shot in Front of Flatbush Housing Complex
A Brooklyn man was found shot to death outside the Flatbush Gardens Housing Complex early this morning. Police found 27-year-old Kenroy Smith face down with multiple gunshot wounds to his back after they received a call at 1:30 am. WPIX 11 says he was unconscious and EMS workers declared Smith dead at the scene. No arrests have...
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October 5, 2010November 2, 2010Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn Pingpong Champ—Age 11
By Abigail Ronck It’s Saturday afternoon just after 3 p.m. and it feels as if an entire community hangs on the silence. Alston Wang is one of the greatest pingpong competitors they’ve seen in Sunset Park in quite some time. And he’s only 11. Back and forth the ball goes, until finally Wang sends it...
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October 5, 2010January 2, 2011Brooklyn Life
Midwood Mourns Following Car Crash
By Michael Keller In a small brick house in Midwood, the blinds are shut but the lights are on. A long, black umbrella leans against the closed door and a reporter waits in a car outside. Inside, the Hakimisefat family meets with their lawyer. Police charged Eric Hakimisefat, 16, with criminally negligent homicide, reckless driving,...
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October 5, 2010October 5, 2010Live Wire
Vito Takes Leave of Absence to Battle Cancer
Newly re-elected Assemblyman Vito Lopez will take a leave of absence to complete four days of radiation therapy and five days of isolation next week to treat his second cancer relapse. Lopez was first diagnosed with cancer in 1993 and was treated for another relapse earlier this year. The Brooklyn Paper reports that his treatment...
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October 5, 2010November 2, 2010Brooklyn Life
Traffic Island Irks Merchants
By Lillian Rizzo In the middle of West Sixth Street lies a cement island that is a refuge to some and aggravation to others. Smack in the middle of the former-four lane street, the pedestrian island was added in June by the Department of Transportation in hopes of making an accident-prone corner safer. But the...
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October 5, 2010November 2, 2010Brooklyn Life
The Final Days of the Dust Bowl?
By Evan MacDonald “Get out of my house!” he screamed into the young girl’s face. He was her coach, a tall African-American man dressed in a blue striped shirt and black pants. She was a young soccer player, dressed in red shorts and a grey T-shirt, and she had just become the latest member of...
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October 5, 2010October 6, 2010Brooklyn Life
Read a Book, Book a Date
By Lynn La Russ doesn’t remember the day he told Marley he loved her. It was some time around late January of this year. No, early February. Definitely early February. But Marley doesn’t remember either, and so neither of them cares. What they do know is that they’ve been together for 10 months and they’re...
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October 4, 2010October 4, 2010Live Wire
Detective Testifies in Canarsie Murder Case
Detective John Mauro of the 69th Precinct testified today in the case against Darell Morse in Kings County Court, The Brooklyn Ink’s Vegas Tenold reported. Morse, 38, is charged with the slaying of Jarmel Fletcher, 24, during a fight on Sept. 28, 2008, in Canarsie. Fletcher was stabbed repeatedly in the throat and neck and...
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October 4, 2010October 4, 2010Live Wire
Temporary Truce in Nursing Dispute
As Long Island County Hospital merges with SUNY Downstate Medical Center, LICH nurses have threatened to protest in order to guarantee job security with their new employer, the New York Post reported. Although last week’s protest was averted, the truce might only last a few months, leading to another round of negotiations, or another protest...