Three people were hurt yesterday after a gunman-possibly from a rooftop- opened fire on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights. The targets seemed to be a group of teenage boys and girls walking home from school around 3:15 pm. The teens were lucky enough to turn the corner and avoid the gunfire. Two of the three...
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April 8, 2010April 8, 2010Live Wire
City Will Pay $50,000 to Settle With Handcuffed Girl
The city reached a settlement on a two-year case with the attorney of I’Mecca Pearson who was kneed by two officers and then cuffed on a bus for not sitting down fast enough. The then 10-year-old Pearson was getting on a bus after school at Eubie Blake in Bensonhurst when officers Joseph Cortes and Dennis...
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April 1, 2010April 1, 2010Live Wire
Robbery Suspect Shot by Three NYPD Officers
Three plainclothes officers assigned to Anti-Crime patrol at 33rd Street and 5th Avenue shot a male who fit the description of a robbery suspect. At 2:15 pm today the suspect approached the driver’s side of the police vehicle and displayed a handgun. As the driver attempted to grab the gun, the officer in the passenger...
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April 1, 2010April 7, 2010Brooklyn Life
Stimulus Funding Breathes New Life Into Brooklyn Health Center
By Jack Mirkinson Over a year after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—more commonly known as the stimulus bill—hundreds of billions of dollars have flowed from the government’s coffers to state and local agencies and countless community organizations. Quite a bit of that money has gone to Brooklyn. According to ProPublica’s Recovery...
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February 19, 2010February 25, 2010Brooklyn Life
Skiing on One Leg and a Big Heart
by Van Tieu After being shot in the back and losing his leg at the age of 15, Ralph “Putt” Green, a star quarterback, yearned for another sport to love. He searched for years and then found it in the snow. It was in the Poconos, far from his home at the Roosevelt Projects in...
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February 19, 2010March 4, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
Deliberations Resume After Juror Dismissal
A reconstituted jury panel began deliberations this afternoon in the trial of a Brooklyn police officer accused of sexual assault.
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February 19, 2010February 25, 2010Brooklyn Life
A Lonely Search for Life-Saving Cells
More than 100,000 Americans find out each year that they have a life-threatening disease, like leukemia, requiring a bone marrow transplant. About 30 percent of the patients in need of a transplant find a match within their families.