City libraries face another round of severe cutbacks under the new budget, which library officials said could result in more than 1,400 jobs lost, many of those in Brooklyn.
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May 7, 2010May 7, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn Mailman Caught Stashing Mail
A Brooklyn postal worker allegedly pulled a stunt worthy of the unscrupulous mailman from “Seinfeld” when he was caught red-handed hiding hundreds of undelivered letters in the trunk of his car, officials said.
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May 7, 2010September 8, 2010Brooklyn Life, Business, Crime
Brooklyn Vendors Praise Vendor Hero In Times Square Bomb Plot
With long hours outside, street vendors are provided with an ample opportunity to observe their surroundings and notice if anything is askew. Brooklyn's street vendors speak out following the foiled Times Square bomb plot.
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May 7, 2010May 7, 2010Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Religion, Video
Video – Brooklyn Church Reaches out to Sister Parish in Port Au Prince
Rev. Verel Montauban is the pastor at the First Haitian Church of the Brethren in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. He also ministers to a sister congregation in Haiti. Their church, Croix de Mission, was destroyed in the January 12 earthquake.
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May 7, 2010May 14, 2010Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Video
Video – Hack Attack in Brooklyn
NYC Resistor is a shared space in Brooklyn where a group of 'hackers' take apart electronics and put them together again to create a variety of weird and wonderful inventions. These self-proclaimed 'nerds' aren't going to break into your Facebook account, though; this generation of 'hackers' does things differently. Van Tieu meets them.
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May 7, 2010May 7, 2010Live Wire
‘Bad Cop’ Charged In Brooklyn Federal Court
NYPD veteran Emmanuel Tavarez made fake arrests with real police equipment, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday in Brooklyn federal court.
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May 7, 2010May 7, 2010Live Wire
Red Hook Park Contaminated With PCBs
The grassy fields of a park in the gentrifying Red Hook section of Brooklyn are contaminated with PCBs at a level 110 times what New York environmental agencies consider safe, according to court records filed in a lawsuit against bankrupt Chemtura Corp.
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May 7, 2010May 7, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
Hate Crime Trial: In a New York Second–One Jury In, Another Out
Wednesday, Craig Newman tried to sway jurors from convicting his client, Hakim Scott. Thursday, it was Smallman’s turn to appeal to a different jury against convicting Keith Phoenix. The charges remained the same: second degree murder as a hate crime.
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April 29, 2010April 29, 2010Crime
A Rare Ruling in Criminal Court
A judge declares a mistrial at Brooklyn Criminal Court, leaving lawyers left deciding whether to start again in the case of a shooting in a bodega.
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April 29, 2010April 29, 2010Crime
Hate Crime Trial: A Day of Confessions
Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott are on trial for allegedly shouting homophobic and racial epithets while brutally beating Jose Sucuzhanay, who died days after the 2008 attack. Jurors heard testimony on Wednesday from two New York City Police Department detectives, drawing to a close the second week of the ongoing trial.