By Leah Finnegan Had the New York Senate passed a landmark bill to allow same-sex marriage Tuesday, Brooklyn couple Mark Nayden and Richard Kennedy might have finally made plans to legalize their union. Instead, the bill was shelved and the partners, together for 19 years, will have to wait – not that they were surprised...
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November 11, 2009November 16, 2009Politics
Family Court
By Nathania Zevi The fifth floor of the Brooklyn Family Court looks like a soccer field before the game begins. Two teams confront each other. On one side of the room women sit together, chatting and cuddling their tired kids. The opposite side is filled with men lying on their backs and yawning. Their faces...
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November 11, 2009November 17, 2009Brooklyn Life
Photo for 11/11/09: Decatur Street in Bed-Stuy
Autumn is in full swing and the leaves are changing on every corner. Here is a glance of what autumn looks like on Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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November 11, 2009February 4, 2010Business
Popcorn Fires
A look at the aftermath of two popcorn machines fires in the span of six weeks at the UA Court Street Stadium 12 in Brooklyn Heights.
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November 10, 2009November 17, 2009Brooklyn Life
Photo for 11/10/09: Street After Cleaning Day
“It’s quite apparent that no street cleaning truck came by during the designated hours, because the leaves from the day before are still there,” says Ray Johnson [Sheepsheadbites.com]
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November 10, 2009November 16, 2009Brooklyn Life
The Climbers
By Rob Anderson “I’m not crazy,” the woman says in a thick Brooklyn accent. “I am not going up there.” She is speaking to the bottom half of a man–her husband, presumably–who has climbed up a perilous-looking, retractable metal ladder into a hole carved out of the ceiling in apartment 4D. “I don’t know what...
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November 10, 2009February 4, 2010Brooklyn Life
The Composter
Kendall Morrison is surrounded by garbage, food waste, spores of fungus. He is a happy man. Morrison cannot avoid smiling when he says that he will fill one the few green oasis in Bushwick with his beloved rubbish.
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November 9, 2009November 16, 2009Brooklyn Life
A Child’s Perfect Crime
The bakery, La Table Exquise, opened the other night in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and families and friends came to Tompkins Street in groups.
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November 3, 2009November 3, 2009Brooklyn Life
Photo for 11/3/09: Apartment Complex Plan
A developer’s plan to build a twin-towered apartment complex in Greenpoint is raising some eyebrows.
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October 26, 2009January 6, 2010Audio, Multimedia, Sports
Audio Postcard from Gleason’s Gym
The legendary Gleason’s Gym has been in DUMBO since 1984. In that time, it’s seen the neighborhood flourish around it, while still maintaining it’s gritty, classic style. Ishita Singh sends this audio postcard from the gym floor. [audio:http://thebrooklynink.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/singh_gleasons.mp3]