Abdeladim El-Kebir, a Moroccan national, was indicted in federal court in Brooklyn in connection with a bomb plot, The Washington Post reports. The indictment, which was unsealed Thursday, charges that El-Kebir, 30, conspired with others to aid al-Qaida in bombing attacks. He was arrested in Germany in April, where is still being held. The Washington...
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November 11, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
300 Local Jobs Expected at Brooklyn Navy Yard
On Thursday Mayor Bloomberg and Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation President Andrew Kimball announced that 300 local jobs will be created at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports. The location is currently undergoing its biggest expansion since WWII with 400 million square feet of leasable space, and 1.6 million square feet of...
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November 11, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
Catholic League Won’t Protest Controversial Video at Brooklyn Museum
The Catholic League announced Thursday that it won’t protest a controversial video that is part of an upcoming exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, the Daily News reports. The video, which features ants crawling over a crucified Jesus, was pulled from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. after protests from the Catholic League and others, the...
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November 10, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life, Live Wire
Assemblyman Boyland Found ‘Not Guilty’ in Bribery Trial
Democratic assemblyman William F. Boyland Jr., a representative of the 55th District was found not guilty of corruption today. Boyland, who is from one of Brooklyn’s most prominent political families, had been accused of accepting bribes in return for using his influence to benefit a health care organization. See our coverage of the trial here.
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November 10, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
Joe Paterno: No Longer Brooklyn’s Golden Boy
When the sun came crashing down Wednesday on Joe Paterno’s legendary 46-year career as head coach of Penn State football, the darkness went well beyond State College, Pennsylvania — and fell on Brooklyn. (Photo: Courtesy of the Associated Press)
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November 10, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn Judge Appoints Mark Cohen As FDNY Racial Monitor
Brooklyn Judge Nicholas Garaufis has appointed Mark Cohen, a former federal prosecutor as special bias monitor for the FDNY. Cohen comes from the Manhattan firm Cohen & Gresser and will oversee hiring, training, and promotions of minorities in the nation’s largest fire department. As it currently stands, 93 percent of the agency’s 11,000 firefighters are...
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November 10, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life, Live Wire
Brooklyn Woman Builds Livable Tree House
Bedford-Stuyvesant resident Alexandra Meyn is living out everyone’s childhood dream of living in a tree house, The New York Times reports. Unable to find a job upon graduating from the Pratt Institute in May, the 33-year-old decided to work as her own interior designer. She thereby constructed a 17-foot-tall treehouse on a raised platform — she couldn’t suspend it from the...
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November 10, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
Bay Ridge Cafe Is Victim of Increased Police Surveillance Targeting Muslims
A lengthy report from Fox News details how one cafe in Bay Ridge fell victim to the NYPD’s increased and unlawful surveillance of the Muslim community. According to the owner Mousa Ahmad, undercover police constantly loitered across the street and hung around in his cafe for hours, eavesdropping on conversations. Everybody in the neighborhood knew...
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November 10, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
Israel Extradites Brooklyn Man In Relation With Crown Heights Hate Crime
Israel has ordered the extradition of a Brooklyn man back to the U.S. for his part in a racially-fueled 2008 assault, says the Washington Post. Yitzchak Shuchat is suspected of attacking Andrew Charles, who is black, in Crown Heights. The area, which saw rioting in 1991, is known for tension between the Jewish and black...
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November 9, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn Filmmaker turned “Vigilante Gardener”
Brooklyn filmmaker, Todd Bieber, has gardened for the last six months, growing veggies in an abandoned lot just a block from his Brooklyn residence, Gothamist reports. The artist is calling himself a “Vigilante Gardener” because of the not-so-legal project. Bieber spent 3 hours a week on the garden over the summer, eventually producing a film...