By Joe Proudman Five years ago Gabriela Alvarado was in New York on vacation. She had just left her job in Puebla, Mexico, after the company she was working for changed owners. She felt her life was due for a change after spending the previous 10 years engulfed in her career. She felt she really...
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November 29, 2010November 29, 2010Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn Morning — Shoes Foot the Bill
By Abigail Ronck Through the windows of Sammy Elhage’s store on 5th Avenue in Sunset Park, rows and rows of tiny boots—sized for infants and up—in gray, navy and brown faux suede lined the shelves. On a hot pink poster board a sign advertised “botas de mujeres, 2 x $35.” Elhage, who was perched behind...
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November 29, 2010November 29, 2010Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn Morning — Chinese Dance Lessons in Sunset Park
By Abigail Ronck Every morning a group of at least 20 neighborhood women meet outside the Sunset Park Recreation Center between 8:30 and 11 to perform traditional Chinese dances in coordinated line form, says a resident by the name of Surant. They do it for exercise she says, bouncing up and down and warming her...
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November 12, 2010November 16, 2010Brooklyn Life
The Fighter: A Life in and Out of Boxing
By Abigail Ronck Michael Dominguez throws punches to stay alive. He has for all of his life. At 52 years old his nose looks like that of a pug, pushed in and dented. His mom introduced him to the fight game. She was his first opponent. One night, when he was very young, he came...
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October 19, 2010October 19, 2010Live Wire
Police finally identify suspects in Brooklyn murder
According to a police report, a Brooklyn man has been apprehended for a September 29th murder within the grounds of the 1st Precinct. Max Moreno, pronounced dead on arrival at Bellevue hospital, was shot in the head. Two unidentified subjects were at large—until today. After an ongoing investigation, police arrested Raymond Rizzo, 30, who is charged...
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October 19, 2010October 19, 2010Live Wire
Ink reporters in search of answers about bicyclist shooting
Ink reporters Alex Gecan and Lynn La are currently investigating the shooting of a police officer in East New York that occurred Sunday night. According to The Wall Street Journal, 17-year-old Elijah Foster Bey was riding his bicycle down Bradford Street when three plain-clothes officers asked him to stop and talk. There had been a...
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October 19, 2010October 19, 2010Live Wire
Jay-Z scavenger hunt starts today
Take a tour of the rapper’s life. From the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, Jay-Z and Bing are taking the artist’s new autobiography interactive in the form of a scavenger hunt, PCMag.com reports. Before the book’s release next month, titled “Decoded,” over 300 pages of it will be hidden in different locations around the world. Starting...
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October 19, 2010October 19, 2010Live Wire
Sentence for bus driver murder: 20 years to life
Today the Brooklyn Supreme Court handed Horace Moore a sentence of 20 years to life for the murder of bus driver Edwin Thomas in 2008, Ink reporter Lillian Rizzo confirms. More details to follow in a Brooklyn Ink story tomorrow.
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October 19, 2010October 19, 2010Live Wire
Park Slope residents continue to protest bike lane
Along with new moms pushing strollers, now some senior residents of Park Slope are protesting the Park Slope Bike Lane on Prospect Park West Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reports. Retirees of the community maintain that cyclists riding along the 19-block bike lane do so with such speed and disregard that it presents a...
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October 19, 2010October 19, 2010Live Wire
Sentence to come for bus driver murder over unpaid fare
Amid supporters and protestors, Ink reporter Lillian Rizzo is at the Brooklyn Supreme Court today, awaiting the sentencing of a man found guilty of stabbing a bus driver over a $2 fare two years ago. Horace Moore, an ex-con many times over, was convicted of murder of the second degree on October 7. Outside the...