Gov. Patterson and the State Liquor Authority announced yesterday that distribution of the malt alcoholic beverage Four Loko will stop in New York State, The New York Times reports. Phusion Projects, the Four Loko manufacturer based in Chicago, willingly agreed to stop the shipments to NY State by this Friday.
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November 15, 2010November 15, 2010Live Wire
56-Year-Old Church to Close in January
The congregation at Our Lady of Monserrate-St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant were stunned to hear that their church will shut down in January, the New York Post reports. The church is one of two the financially limited diocese will be closing next year. The other Church is the Church of St. Edward the...
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November 15, 2010November 15, 2010Live Wire
Teen Seeks Compensation After Getting Shot
A 16-year-old Brooklyn girl has filed a lawsuit against the city seeking compensation after she was wounded by a bullet from a cop’s gun, and will never walk again, the New York Post reports. Kamesha Williams was accidentally shot in May 2009 by a friend who was playing around with his father’s gun. The father...
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November 15, 2010November 15, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn Law School Shocked by Daring Diesel Ad
Diesel rented the Brooklyn Law School library for what the institution expected would be an ordinary denim ad. Instead they school found a series of raunchy images on the Diesel website where young, barely dressed, models got sexual in the stacks, and on the computers, the New York Post reported. The shoot was last March,...
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November 15, 2010November 15, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn Landlord Placed on ‘Worst Slumlord’ List
Brooklyn landlord David Bistricer owes the city thousands of dollars, even though he makes about $10 million from leasing space to the city every year, the New York Daily News reports. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has put the landlord on his “worst slumlord list,” and has urged the city to terminate their contracts with...
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November 8, 2010November 9, 2010Brooklyn Life
Struck Down in Clinton Hill
By Joi-Marie McKenzie Most mornings Scott Andresen, 35, wakes up at 5 a.m. The pain from his back acts as his personal alarm clock. He takes over 20 prescriptions daily including double doses of Percoset, vitamins and pills for the nerve damage in his right ankle. His bruised tailbone makes it difficult for him to sit...
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October 26, 2010November 22, 2010Brooklyn Life
The Phone Whisperer
By Idil Abshir Rob Pettit is probably the only person in the world who owns five thousand dead cell phones, and for him, they work just fine. Pettit, a Ditmas Park resident, is an artist who has been making art installations out of dead cell phones since 2006. In his Park Slope studio, dead phones...
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October 8, 2010October 11, 2010Brooklyn Life
Defense Argues Browne Traumatized
By Idil Abshir A psychiatrist testifying for the defense in the trial of a teenager accused of stabbing her cousin to death told jurors yesterday the defendant suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and wasn’t in control of her actions at the time of the crime. Prosecutors argue that Tiana Browne, 17, was motivated by...