Residents are being forced to hike around piles of trash in Midwood on East 23rd Street, behind PS 197, to get to their cars, reports the New York Post. Residents say the school’s garbage was left out for a week, and the behavior has become routine. Sanitation trucks are supposed to pick up the trash...
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November 17, 2010November 17, 2010Live Wire
Councilman says no to Greenpoint Homeless Shelter
Councilman Steve Levin says plans to convert an occupied industrial loft in Greenpoint into a 200-bed men’s shelter would only bring more problems to the neighborhood, reports The New York Post. Levin believes the proposal, led by Manhattan-based HELP USA, “fails to address Greenpoint’s current homeless population,” because Greenpoint’s homeless population is primarily Polish-speaking with...
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November 2, 2010November 4, 2010Brooklyn Life
Polling Machines Cause Delays and Frustration
By Faaria Kherani Several dozen voters at William Alexander Middle School (MS 51) on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope were frustrated early on election day when new voting machines malfunctioned and they were initially given the wrong ballots. The first batch of voters had to wait 35 minutes after the 6 a.m. opening of the...
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October 14, 2010October 15, 2010Brooklyn Life
The BQE Viewed as Backward “Progress”
By Alex Gecan
A block away from the trench in which the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway runs confluent with Hicks Street, an old lady sat in the shade of her childhood home and remembered
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October 14, 2010October 19, 2010Brooklyn Life
Music School Launches New Cultural Program
By Caitlin Kasunich
The Brooklyn Music School has served the African-American community in Fort Greene almost exclusively during most of its 98 years in operation. That is changing as more and more [...]
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October 14, 2010October 14, 2010Brooklyn Life
HISTORIC SIGN RESURRECTED
By Alexandra Alper
The sign, “Welcome to Brooklyn, the fourth largest city in America,” hung on the Verrazano Bridge only for a few years, over three decades ago. But in that time, it became [...]
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October 14, 2010November 4, 2010Brooklyn Life
Youth Hookah Trend Catches Fire
By Alysia Santo
Eighteen-year-old Vas Vasolo and nineteen-year-old Hani Kinani are spending the evening at this hookah bar in Bay Ridge to share the sweet flavored “double apple” smoke and to hang out with [...]