A review and interview for "Gut Renovation," a documentary chronicling Su Friedrich's experiences watching Williamsburg's gentrification.
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March 9, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn’s LICH Hospital Remains Open
SUNY Downstate is still barred from closing LICH down after a court hearing Friday. A final decision is expected soon.
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March 1, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
LICH Hospital Supporters in Court Next Week
LICH supporters are petitioning a judge to vacate SUNY Downstate's decision to close the hospital.
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February 15, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Multimedia
[VIDEO] Brooklyn Catholics Surprised by Pope Benedict’s Resignation
On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, Brooklyn’s Catholics were still processing Monday morning’s surprise announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation. He is the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to step down in almost 600 years. The last time a Pope left his role while still alive was 1415, with Pope Gregory XII. At St....
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February 12, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
Clinton Hill Play Memorializes Black Victims of Violence
"Outcry" tells the story of Trayvon Martin and other murdered young black men. It is playing in Clinton Hill through Feb. 24.
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February 10, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Recovers
Sandy-Ravaged Communities in Brooklyn Upset by Property Taxes
Southern Brooklyn has not been immune from this year's increase in city property tax assessments. That includes homes still reeling from thousands of dollars in damage from Hurricane Sandy.
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February 1, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Fighting to Keep Two Brooklyn Hospitals Alive
The brisk wind wasn’t enough to drown out the chants of dozens of protesters fighting for a pair of Brooklyn hospitals outside of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s New York City office Thursday. Red-clad members of the New York States Nurses Association joined Brooklyn community residents at the rally, to demand that Cuomo keep Interfaith Hospital...
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February 1, 2013September 30, 2019Death in Brooklyn, Politics
How’s New York Doing? City Mourns One of Its Most Colorful Mayors
By 9 a.m. Friday it had sunk in; Wikipedia had it. Ed Koch, the brashly quintessential New Yorker, World War II veteran, United States Congressman and Mayor of New York City, was dead at 88 of congested heart failure. “How’m I doing?” His Honor was known to ask random passersby on New York’s streets, a...