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April 21, 2010April 21, 2010Live Wire
Potential Strike Averted in Brooklyn’s Buildings
More than 30,000 workers, including doormen, porters, handymen and superintendents have struck a deal with building owners on a new four-year contract, averting a threatened strike. Representatives from Local 32BJ and the Realty Advisory Board announced the deal early this morning following hours of negotiations at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown. The workers had threatened...
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April 21, 2010April 21, 2010Live Wire
Daniel’s Choice
Daniel Goldstein and his family are now the only residents fighting eviction from the Atlantic Yards site after seven other families agreed to leave by next month. Atlantic Yards was the target of protests and lawsuits since the developer Bruce C. Ratner proposed it more than four years ago. Some local residents opposed the project...
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April 21, 2010April 21, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn’s PS 105 has the longest waiting list
Hundreds of Chinese families in Sunset Park want to enroll their kids into Public School 105. Many of the school’s teachers and staff speak Mandarin. The school on 59th St. now has 12 kindergartens to accommodate the new immigrants. Though most of the kids won’t be admitted to the school, their families still try to...
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April 15, 2010April 15, 2010Live Wire
Deportation Ordered for Imam linked to Subway Bombing Plot
Imam Ahmad Afzali, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and NYPD about his connection with the ringleader of the group plotting to bomb NYC subway, was ordered to leave the country today as part of his sentence. Afzali will not serve any additional jail time. He has 90 days to get his affairs...
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April 2, 2010April 6, 2010Brooklyn Life
Rashomon in a Brooklyn Courtroom
By Nate Rawlings Taj Mcintyre emigrated from Jamaica with a student visa. He was 21 when he left his family behind. He put himself through school and was a hard worker. There was one small incident where he was caught stealing from a clothing store. He was young, admitted his guilt, and attended classes in...
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April 2, 2010April 2, 2010Brooklyn Life
Praying for Authors’ Inspiration
By Althea A. Fung The auditorium of Medgar Evers College was half filled with young and old African Americans waiting for the opening ceremony of the 10th Annual Black Writers Conference on March 22 to begin. Some members of the audience grew anxious waiting for the program to begin while others took the time to...
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March 29, 2010April 2, 2010Brooklyn Life
Remembering Islam’s Prophet With an Uninvited Latin Beat
By Mustafa Mehdi Vural Hundreds of Turkish Muslims flocked to the Millennium Theater on Brighton Beach Avenue in Brooklyn on Friday evening to commemorate Islam’s prophet, Muhammad. Little girls dressed in white bride dresses welcomed each guest at the entrance to the theater’s lobby, putting rose water on their palms and giving them a branch...
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March 22, 2010March 22, 2010Audio Slideshow, Brooklyn Life
“Kina Gecesi” Henna Night in Brooklyn
By Amanda Massa and Mustafa Mehdi Vural Marriage can bring a smile to many people’s faces, but sometimes it brings tears. In the Turkish culture, the traditional henna night — which is performed just days before the wedding— does just that. The henna night, or kina gecesi , is for women only. Friends and family...
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March 11, 2010March 26, 2010Brooklyn Life, Politics
Scholars: What Atlantic Yards Could Mean
By Mustafa Mehdi Vural Atlantic Yards will change Brooklyn. But there is no unanimity among urban historians and scholars on what this change will mean for the borough. For the last six years, Atlantic Yards has been a Brooklyn tale of money, power and politics. It has been the subject of endless debate, court battles...