Filene’s Basement/Syms is set to open its first store in Brooklyn in 2012, New York Post reports. The clothing discount store that merged when Syms bought Filene’s Basement from bankruptcy in 2009 is to open at 490 Fulton St. at the Fulton Mall building. The store will occupy 40,000 square feet of space. Long Island...
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October 12, 2010October 12, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn’s “Bernie Madoff” Under Fire for Confession Note
Philip Barry, a man accused of a Ponzi scheme and who is at the center of suits filed by former clients in Brooklyn Federal Court, is attempting to keep a note he wrote from being used in his trial, New York Daily News reports. “I’m just a crook running a Ponzi scheme,” the note said....
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October 12, 2010October 12, 2010Live Wire
NYC Firefighter Suspected Hit-and-Run Removed from Duty
An NYC firefighter who is suspected in a hit-and run that occurred early Sunday morning at 65th Street and 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst was placed on administrative duty, The New York Times reports. Patrick Quagliariello, 39, went to a Brooklyn precinct four hours after the incident and told police that his vehicle was involved in the accident. The...
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October 12, 2010October 12, 2010Live Wire
Hail Hammers Brooklyn
Storms rolled through Brooklyn yesterday evening bringing a downpour of hail, The New York Times reports. Hailstones the size of quarters piled nearly an inch high in Brooklyn Heights in addition to battering Prospect Heights, Park Slope and other neighborhoods in the borough. Most of New York City and parts of New Jersey were blasted...
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October 8, 2010October 9, 2010Brooklyn Life
A Sixty-Four Square Love Affair
By Joe Deaux Mr. Christian holds a Blackberry in his right hand and a black rook in his left. His eyes peer high over my right shoulder. I sit behind white chess pieces. Mr. Christian looms over the black pieces while keeping an eye on the doorway to his chess shop. Moments ago he was...
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October 5, 2010November 2, 2010Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn Pingpong Champ—Age 11
By Abigail Ronck It’s Saturday afternoon just after 3 p.m. and it feels as if an entire community hangs on the silence. Alston Wang is one of the greatest pingpong competitors they’ve seen in Sunset Park in quite some time. And he’s only 11. Back and forth the ball goes, until finally Wang sends it...
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October 5, 2010November 2, 2010Brooklyn Life
Traffic Island Irks Merchants
By Lillian Rizzo In the middle of West Sixth Street lies a cement island that is a refuge to some and aggravation to others. Smack in the middle of the former-four lane street, the pedestrian island was added in June by the Department of Transportation in hopes of making an accident-prone corner safer. But the...
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October 5, 2010November 2, 2010Brooklyn Life
The Final Days of the Dust Bowl?
By Evan MacDonald “Get out of my house!” he screamed into the young girl’s face. He was her coach, a tall African-American man dressed in a blue striped shirt and black pants. She was a young soccer player, dressed in red shorts and a grey T-shirt, and she had just become the latest member of...
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October 5, 2010October 6, 2010Brooklyn Life
Read a Book, Book a Date
By Lynn La Russ doesn’t remember the day he told Marley he loved her. It was some time around late January of this year. No, early February. Definitely early February. But Marley doesn’t remember either, and so neither of them cares. What they do know is that they’ve been together for 10 months and they’re...