The MTA has announced the “L” train will not be running at all this weekend between Manhattan and the Myrtle-Wyckoff station in Bushwick, according to The Brooklyn Paper. The interruption will affect all “L” service in Williamsburg. Trains will cease running at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday and will resume at 5 a.m. on Monday. To...
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October 8, 2010October 8, 2010Live Wire
Russian “Jersey Shore” Coming to Brooklyn
Lifetime has ordered up to 12 episodes of a Russian-American version of the popular MTV show “Jersey Shore” that will be set in Brooklyn, according to the New York Daily News. The show, which will be called “Brighton Beach,” will take place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of the same name and will focus on southern...
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October 8, 2010October 8, 2010Live Wire
Houston May Pass Brooklyn As Nation’s 4th-Largest City
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz unveiled a highway sign touting Brooklyn as the fourth-largest city in America yesterday, but The New York Times is reporting that may not be the case for much longer. Markowitz unveiled a sign outside Borough Hall yesterday reading “Welcome to Brooklyn: the 4th Largest City in America,” a reference to...
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October 8, 2010October 8, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn Man Convicted Of Killing MTA Driver
A Brooklyn man was found guilty Thursday of murdering an MTA bus driver in 2008, according to The Brooklyn Eagle. Horace Moore, 22, was convicted of stabbing and killing MTA bus driver Edwin Thomas in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 2008 after Thomas would not give him a free transfer ticket. Thomas had previously allowed Moore, who had...
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October 8, 2010October 8, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn DA Examining City Following Girl’s Death
The Brooklyn district attorney’s office is investigating the actions of the city and outside agencies following the death of a four-year-old girl who weighed just 18 pounds when she died last month, the New York Times reports. The DA’s office is investigating the Administration of Children’s Services and outside health and social service agencies following...
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October 8, 2010October 8, 2010Live Wire
Police Seek Information On Missing Brooklyn Girl
Police are asking for help in finding a Brooklyn girl who went missing after leaving for school on Tuesday morning, NY1 is reporting. Twelve-year-old Khadijah Ollivierre was last seen around 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday as she left her home on Ralph Avenue for school. Police say the girls is about five-feet-two-inches tall and weighs about...
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October 8, 2010October 8, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn Boy Struck, Killed By Bus
A four-year-old boy died in Brooklyn yesterday after being hit by a bus in Manhattan Beach, police said. Evan Svirsky, of 177-05 West End Ave., was struck by a westbound B49 bus just before 4:30 p.m. yesterday after he ran into the street on Oriental Avenue near Falmouth Street. The boy was transported to Coney...
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October 4, 2010November 2, 2010Brooklyn Life
Idol Fever in Brooklyn
By Evan MacDonald Nunzio Franzese, 56, of Gravesend, won the 4th Brooklyn Senior Idol competition and the $500 grand prize Saturday night with his rendition of “Mack the Knife,” a song most famously associated with Bobby Darin. The contest was held at Xaverian High School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and was sponsored by State Senator...
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September 26, 2010October 4, 2010Brooklyn Life, Politics
Brooklyn Tea Party protests mosques, big government at rally
By Evan MacDonald Dr. John Press, president of the Brooklyn Tea Party, doesn’t believe in multiculturalism. Instead, he believes in “culturism.” Press believes in America’s roots as a Judeo-Christian society, and as such, his group believes in an adherence to the values associated with Judeo-Christian cultures. “When they say that all cultures are our friends,...