Brooklyn’s grandest arch sits in an 11-acre plaza obstructed in the middle of the borough’s most confusing and dangerous intersections. What do you do with a problem like Grand Army Plaza?
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November 5, 2009November 9, 2009Crime
Aspiring Rapper Remembered at Wake
By Meredith Kennedy and Miranda Lin Several police officers stood guard in front of Grace Funeral Home in East New York on Wednesday afternoon as family and friends from the rap community wearing black t-shirts that read “RIP Mike Beck” gathered to pay their respects to 36-year-old artist Mike Becht, known as Mike Beck in...
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November 4, 2009February 4, 2010Politics
The Morning After in Bed-Stuy
The Ink brings you a vox populi report from the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant on the morning after hometown mayoral candidate Bill Thompson's narrow loss.
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November 4, 2009November 11, 2009Crime
US Settles with Detainees but Lawyer’s Work Continues
By Mara Zepeda Rachel Meeropol’s work is far from over. Two days after her clients, five Muslim plaintiffs held in a Brooklyn prison after 9/11, were awarded $1.26 million from the federal government, Meeropol is at work building a larger class action lawsuit. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents other prisoners rounded up in...
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November 4, 2009January 6, 2010Arts & Culture, Multimedia, Slideshow
Ballroom Boogie in Bay Ridge
In Bay Ridge, a scene from a ballroom dancing class: Octogenarians fox trot, retirees rumba and the cardigans come off as the young at heart learn a few new tricks.