A 23 year-old from Prospect Heights was shot in the head at about 1:45 p.m. Saturday in a courtyard at the intersection of Ocean and Church Avenues in Brooklyn. The victim, Dymitre Thelismond, was arrested about a month earlier, according to the NY Post, for stabbing a friend with an ice pick. That man did...
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May 24, 2010May 24, 2010Live Wire
Happy birthday, Brooklyn Bridge!
If Magnolia Bakery could make a cake fit for a landmark, the celebration would be in Brooklyn today. The Brooklyn Bridge turns 127 today.
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March 23, 2010March 23, 2010Health Care Reform
Health Care Law Likely To Help Freelancers
by Alyson Martin The lowest wage earning city freelancers will likely find relief with their health insurance under the healthcare bill signed by President Barack Obama Tuesday, but the middle-class freelancers will still struggle. The Freelancers Union has historically fought for affordable, quality healthcare for the city’s independent workers. The signing of the bill will...
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March 8, 2010March 9, 2010Live Wire
Spring seems to have sprung
At least it has at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, where flowers have replaced melted snow
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March 8, 2010March 9, 2010Live Wire
Did you hit your student? “Go ask your mother.”
That's what a Brooklyn school teacher told The Post when asked if she choked and punched a student over a school uniform dispute
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March 8, 2010March 9, 2010Live Wire
Beyonce is a Brooklynite?
Well, at first, it was by proxy (her husband, Jay-Z is from Brooklyn). But on Friday, Borough President Marty Markowitz declared the entertainer a real Brooklynite when she visited Friday
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March 8, 2010March 9, 2010Live Wire
Mother of two dead after weekend car accidents in Brooklyn
A 40 year-old Korean woman was killed Sunday when an elderly man apparently accidentally accelerated his SUV and backed over six people. The Daily News has the story
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February 4, 2010April 2, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime, Video
Video – After the Fire – Part One
Five lives were lost in the early morning hours on January 30 in a fire allegedly set by the victims’ neighbor.