Brooklyn was once considered an incubator for hip-hop, but has it lost its touch? Hannah Olivennes looks into hip-hop’s traveling geographical center.
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January 4, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Major Change Seen for Red Hook’s Working Waterfront
Recent events signal a slow fade out of containerization in Red Hook, marking the possible end to the neighborhood’s working waterfront.
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January 2, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Politics, Religion, Video
Muslims in Brooklyn: A Community on The Edge
Ten years after 9/11, the Muslim community in Brooklyn has been forced into the public view again in the wake of recent revelations that the NYPD were conducting secret surveillance programs against them. Our reporter Omar Akhtar documents his journey through Muslim Brooklyn. Almost every Muslim I speak to at Brooklyn College tells me...
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December 12, 2011September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Growing up With Hip-Hop
A mini-documentary about hip-hop in Brooklyn’s projects.
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November 10, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
Evidence Links Suspect to the Rape of a 12-Year-Old
A criminologist presented DNA evidence today in the trial of Adam Wright, linking him to the rape of a 12-year-old girl in 2002. The DNA sample provided by Wright, 43, was collected in 2005 in relation to another rape case, criminologist Noelle Umback told the courtroom in Kings County Supreme Court. It wasn’t until three...
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November 7, 2011December 19, 2011Audio Slideshow, Brooklyn Life, Multimedia
Palestinian Statehood: What the Children Say
Amid the discussion around the Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership, we talk to sixth graders at schools from different faiths about the conflict. What do they know? How do they know it?
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November 2, 2011November 2, 2011Brooklyn Life
November on the Boardwalk
Click. Click. Click. A couple busily snap photographs of the ocean view as seen from the boardwalk at Coney Island. He wears a white jacket and she a black one, jeans and sunglasses. “We should go down there,” she tells him, pointing towards the beach. The sunrays hit brilliantly on the boardwalk on this cold,...
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November 1, 2011November 2, 2011Brooklyn Life
PHOTOS: Brooklyn Greenmarket
Reporter Ravi Kumar went to Borough Hall Green Market at the intersection of Montague and Court St. The market has local food, fruits, flowers, and vegetables three days a week:Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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October 25, 2011October 27, 2011Brooklyn Life
Occupy Wall Street: The Missing Demographic
A month after Occupy Wall Street started, our reporter Hannah Olivennes looks at the involvement of the Black community in the protest.