Dan O’Connor of Brooklyn is hoping to win over fellow New Yorkers with his enthusiasm as he campaigns for Congress. “I think I have a lot of energy as a young guy,” O’Connor, 33, said, at a recent interview in his modest office in the heart of Chinatown. Standing over six feet tall, he’s...
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March 30, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Crime
Brooklyn Watch Groups Under Scrutiny After Martin Killing
Neighborhood watch groups across the United States, including in Brooklyn, are facing increased scrutiny following the death of an unarmed black teenager shot by a member of a Florida group. “We’re not trying to apprehend, or chase, or follow. Crime is a police job,” said Terence Joseph, one of the founders of the Community Observation...
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March 27, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Best Kisser? Sexy Senior? It’s the Brooklyn Mutt Show (Slide Show)
With categories such as Most Like Owner, Least Useful Trick, Sexy Senior, and Best Kisser, even the rain and cold weather could not stop the doggie contestants of all and any breed, and their owners, from having a blast at the Brooklyn Mutt Show last weekend. Billed as Brooklyn’s “fun alternative to Westminster,” the show...
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March 22, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Cops Hunt Vandals who Marred Statues at Catholic School in Brooklyn
Vandals desecrated a statue of the Virgin Mary outside a Catholic school for girls in Brooklyn, decapitating a stone lamb in a possible hate crime. Read more: The New York Daily News
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March 22, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Cherry Blossoms Coming Too Early for Brooklyn Festival
The best-loved blooms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be past their prime for next month’s Cherry Blossom Festival, the garden’s head arborist predicts. Read more: The New York Daily News
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March 22, 2012September 30, 2019Live Wire
Cyclist Critical in Brooklyn Crash
A 63-Year-old bicyclist was clinging to life after an 80-year-old driver slammed into him on a Brooklyn street, officials said. Read more: The New York Daily News
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March 18, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Business, Crime
Chester and the Chocolate Factory
It’s nearing the end of the day at Tumbador Chocolates, and most of the workers have gone home. Only a couple employees remain to wash up the chocolate covered pots and pans; the scent of chocolate wafts through the air as you walk up the four steep flights of stairs of 34, 34th Street...
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February 29, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Crime, Multimedia, Sports, Video
[VIDEO] Saving Youth, One Push-Up at a Time
Will Crandall is an ex-convict who runs a fitness program for young men and women in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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February 18, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Crime
Boerum Hill Residents Worry More About Parking than New Jail
When the Brooklyn Detention Complex reopened last week, articles sprung up in many New York publications quoting residents expressing their fears of having men who broke the law housed so close to their doorstep. However, it seems that the biggest concern for many residents of Boerum Hill are not the men being housed at 275...
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January 31, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Live Wire
Defendent From Brooklyn Among Those Charged for Home Equity Loan Fraud
United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment Monday charging two defendants with mail fraud and money laundering in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in losses of at least $180,000 to lenders. Charged are Sultanmurod Rashidov, 29, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Andrey Kim, 28, of Sacramento,...