The fight against the exclusively male character of Hatzalah, a veteran EMS service, is led by Rachel Freier, known as “Rochi” among her friends, a Haredi attorney and resident of the predominately ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Borough Park neighborhood. Read the full story at Haaretz.
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November 29, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
“Brooklyn came awfully close to becoming an East Coast Detroit.” – City Journal
In 1982, I moved with my husband and our two young children into a partly renovated brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Last year, New Yorkpronounced the area “the most livable neighborhood in New York City,” but in those days, real-estate agents euphemistically described it as “in transition,” meaning that the chances you’d get mugged during a...
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November 29, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
Panel Recommends Broad Changes for Brooklyn Hospitals- WNYC
A state panel says says six of Brooklyn’s 15 hospitals aren’t economically viable in their current state — and three are in the middle of “financial crises.” The hospitals are running deficits, they have many empty beds and their patients often stay longer and have worse outcomes than state and national averages. Read the full...
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November 29, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
Hundreds Rally Against CUNY Tuition Hike
As the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees voted Monday to raise tuition, students and professors took to the streets in protest. For nearly four hours, protesters rallied outside Baruch College, marched around the block and stormed Third and Lexington avenues. The shouts and jeers didn’t stop the Trustees from raising tuition...
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November 28, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
Thanksgiving fire leaves infant, five others in critical condition
Fire-fighters resuscitated 8-month-old Josiah Alexis who had stopped breathing for five minutes in the aftermath of a fire at an apartment building on President Street at Park Slope, Brooklyn. Alexis was placed on a ventilator along with his mom, Justine, 20, Justine’s brother Jonathan, 22, and her brother-in-law, George DeJesus, at New York Presbyterian Cornell...
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November 28, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
Places Everyone: Life Behind the Curtain
What happens in a theater's dressing room? Anna Codrea-Rado goes behind the scenes at the Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO to see what life is like backstage
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November 28, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
NBA Superstars to Hold Charity Event in Brooklyn
Basketball superstars Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwayne Wade and LeBron James will be in Brooklyn tommorow handing out 800 meals to Brooklyn families at the Boys and Girls Club of America. The players were initially scheduled to take part in a charity basketball game at the Izod Center that had to be called off in...
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November 28, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
In Cypress Hills, a Little-Known Monument to Journalism’s Short Memory – City Room
Journalists are easily forgotten. May be, that is why in 1874, newspaper fraternity took title to 24 lots – room for 360 graves — on a hilltop at the Cypress Hills Cemetery, straddling the Brooklyn-Queens line. Read More – City Room.
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November 28, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
CUNY tuition slam – NY Post
The City University’s Board of Trustees is voting today to increase its tuition. According to the plan, the cost for undergrads would be $6,330 a year at CUNY by 2015. In 2010, the cost of tuition was $4,830. Read more at New York Post.
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November 24, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
Park Slope Boasts Booming Real Estate Market
Park Slope houses evoke the urban landscape of 1950s Brooklyn, but boast a modern-day price tag.