By Vegas Tenold Savarese, the last in his family’s line of butchers, barely has time to explain that the shop has been in his family for 80 years, before he ducks into the storage room and returns with the leg of an animal. A holiday week like this one, roughly 8,000 pounds of meat will...
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November 23, 2010November 24, 2010Brooklyn Life
For the Borough’s Unemployed, Little to be Thankful for
By Alex Eriksen As the holiday season begins, there’s one place in the Fulton Street Mall that’s busy as ever: the unemployment office. Every day, people wait in line at the New York Department of Labor to talk to job counselors, get the latest listings, and attend seminars on resume writing. Finding employment can...
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November 9, 2010November 10, 2010Brooklyn Life
Grandmother Grieves for Slain Teen
By Alex Eriksen Four months ago Nora Walker buried her son. Soon she’ll do the same for her grandson. Early Sunday morning, Tyquell Walker, 18, was shot and killed a few blocks from their home on Bayview Avenue in Coney Island. Police say that Walker was at a party in a housing project at 2839...
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October 6, 2010October 6, 2010Live Wire
Griddle to Blame In Deadly Fire, Say Investigators
Investigators from the New York City Fire Department said they believed an electric griddle is what caused a three-alarm fire last week in Midwood, Brooklyn, reports NY 1. The blaze began after the griddle was left plugged in atop a wooden countertop. Once the countertop ignited the rest of the house on Avenue P quickly...
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October 6, 2010October 6, 2010Live Wire
Woman Beats her 500 Pound Sister
In a squabble over a $100 gift, a Brooklyn woman beat her bed-ridden, overweight sister, according to the New York Post. Marvenius Nicholson was attacked Monday at 2:30 p.m. by her sister, Jewel Lane. Lane had been visiting her sister’s home in East New York where she is confined to her bed. read the original...
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October 6, 2010October 6, 2010Live Wire
9 Rounded Up In Gowanus Drug Sting
Police arrested and indicted 9 members of an alleged drug syndicate operating in the Gowanus Houses in Brookyln, reports Brownstoner. A four-year operation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Agency and the NYPD netted the defendants who are all accused of conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine. One of the defendants, Ronald ‘Ra Diggs’ Herron,...
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October 6, 2010October 6, 2010Live Wire
Accused Subway Flasher Gets Free Metrocard
A man accused of exposing himself to a teenage girl on a crowded subway train got a free ride, courtesy of police, according to the NY Post. Daniel Barricella, 59, of Brooklyn, spent a night in jail after being arraigned yesterday for public lewdness and sexual harassment. All suspects that stay in jail overnight are...
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October 6, 2010October 6, 2010Live Wire
DUMBO Improvement Director to Step Down
At the end of this year the Executive Director of the DUMBO Improvement District will step down according to a story in the NY Post. Kate Kerrigan is leaving her job after two years to work elsewhere in the city. Kerrigan was responsible for the reconstruction projects that reopened the Manhattan Bridge Archway to the...
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October 6, 2010October 6, 2010Live Wire
Update: Tiana Browne Trial
Brooklyn Ink reporter Joe Deaux was at Kings County Supreme Court today for the trial of Tiana Browne. Browne was charged with stabbing her cousin 30 times with a knife on September 30, 2008. Today’s session ended with the prosecution calling for Louie Walker, Brown’s ex-boyfired who she reportedly came to the night of murder. The trial...
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October 6, 2010October 6, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn Woman Gets $54 mil Payday
The Rikers Island prison guard who just six year ago was filing for bankruptcy claimed her Mega Millions Lottery winnings yesterday at a ceremony in Downtown Brooklyn, as reported by the NY Post. Garina Fearon of Brooklyn lived a life of poverty for many years, often on the edge of financial ruin. Fearon spent her...