By Ceylan Yeginsu and Idil Abshir What if human flying wasn’t as impossible as it sounded? For a group based in Williamsburg it’s a daily reality. At S.L.A.M—the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics— Elizabeth Streb, founder, engineers human flight through dance. Her dancers, also called Actioneers, parachute off scaffoldings, swing in hoops, dance on walls,...
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December 7, 2010December 9, 2010Brooklyn Life
Mother and Son Charged with Sex Trafficking
By Alex Eriksen It was the fourth time Eric,18, and Taniesha Sanders,37, a son and his mother, stood together before Judge John Walsh. For Eric, it was his fifteenth. As they walked in, hands cuffed behind their backs, Judge Walsh did not acknowledge Eric as someone familiar. The two first met in September 2009, when...
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December 7, 2010December 8, 2010Brooklyn Life
Making It In Bed-Stuy
By Joi-Marie Mckenzie & Cambrey Thomas Rapper Ingrid Burley doesn’t get much sleep. The 23-year-old Houston native rarely sleeps past six a.m. on a good day. She refuses to buy a bed – she doesn’t want to get too comfortable. Burley moved to Brooklyn three months ago. Her realtor told her she was getting a...
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December 3, 2010December 6, 2010Brooklyn Life
BK Eats – Video: Brooklyn Brownie Bash
Brooklyn Brownie Bash from Brooklyn Ink on Vimeo.
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November 8, 2010November 8, 2010Live Wire
Shake Shack Set to Open in Brooklyn
Shake Shack is coming to Brooklyn and is set to replace a downtown lunchtime favorite in the process. Tony’s famous pizzeria, which has served pie and shakes for more than 20 years at the corner of Fulton and Adams streets, will not be renewing its lease so that the Manhattan-based burger interloper can move in....
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November 8, 2010November 8, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn’s got NYC’s Safest Neighborhood
A report published on the website WalletPop has revealed that Bedford Avenue in zip code 11210 Brooklyn is the safest neighborhood in the five boroughs of New York City. According to the data gathered from crime data based on FBI data from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, it is safer than 90 per cent...
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November 8, 2010November 8, 2010Live Wire
Suspect of Shooting Outside Donut Shop in Custody
A man was shot outside the Donut Shoppe at the corner of Avenue U and E. 15th St. in Homecrest early on Monday, Police and witnesses said. The victim, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at King’s County Hospital. Alkaaiti’s security cameras at the front of his store caught the suspect running...
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November 8, 2010November 8, 2010Live Wire
Thousands of Rabbis Attend Annual Chabad-Lubavitch Conference
Over 4,000 rabbis from across the world gathered in Brooklyn over the weekend to celebrate their culture and religion in the 27th International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. Rabbis and other leaders from as far as Thailand, the Congo, and Eastern Europe attended the conference that wrapped up with a banquet at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal...
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November 8, 2010November 8, 2010Live Wire
Cops Tag Fans of Graffiti Site
Police are cracking down on graffiti fans trying to sneak a peak at an exhibition of spray-painted artwork near a G train station in Williamsburg. The work of dozens of graffiti artists displayed at the abandoned Brooklyn subway station has attracted great attention from fans after a newspaper publicized the site a week ago. The...
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November 8, 2010November 8, 2010Live Wire
Friends Say Mushrooms Contributed to Brooklyn College Student’s Fatal Fall
Friends of a Brooklyn College student who died after falling from an eighth-story dormitory window say the fatal fall occurred after the student consumed hallucinogenic mushrooms. Michael Simmons, 19, fell to his death around 2 a.m Sunday from the St.George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights. Police have not yet determined whether it was a suicide or...