Norman Addie, owner of the Brooklyn Heighs Cinema, was arrested last week, The L Magazine reports. It is alleged that Addie raised $530.000 in investments for additions to his cinema, but instead spent the money on personal expenses and keeping his other businesses afloat. Addie was arrested on charges of securities and wire fraud.
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November 29, 2010November 4, 2013Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn Morning – Coney Island in Winter
by Vegas Tenold Once the subway had rumbled off, a couple of blocks down Stillwell Avenue there was no sound left and Coney Island was an alien place. For a minute or two there was nothing. There were no cars along Atlantic Avenue, no people entered or exited Nathan’s and Deno’s Wonder Wheel was completely...
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October 25, 2010October 26, 2010Brooklyn Life
Pokerface: How a Brooklyn Boy Went Pro
By Vegas Tenold One morning in January, Russell Baumblit woke up and understood poker. Not in the sense that he finally understood the rules of the game, but in the sense that he got it. He suddenly knew how to win. So he decided to go pro. He was 18 at the time, and had...
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October 19, 2010October 21, 2010Brooklyn Life
A victim’s daughter speaks of forgiveness
By Lillian Rizzo Horace Moore, convicted of stabbing a bus driver to death, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison today. As Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Gustin Reichbach read the sentence, MTA workers held up Metrocard transfers, visibly enraged that Moore did not get life. But Edley Thomas, the 19-year-old daughter of murder...
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October 19, 2010October 19, 2010Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn Gets a Barney’s
By Cambrey N. Thomas At 10 a.m. on a busy morning the doors of Barney’s new outpost in downtown Brooklyn opened for the first time and the locals walked by nonchalantly as if its windows were still covered with paper. “Are you from Brooklyn?” asked the greeter at the door who wore red aviator glasses....
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October 19, 2010November 20, 2010Brooklyn Life
Park Slope to Expand Historic District?
By Alejandro Lopez de Haro The historic district of Park Slope has had the highest property values in the neighborhood, and has been able to ride out the slump in housing prices in recent years. Now, the Park Slope Civic Council, a community group, is campaigning to expand the neighborhood’s historic district, which could prevent...
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October 11, 2010October 11, 2010Live Wire
Westboro Baptists protest Brooklyn Jews for killing Jesus
A crowd of 50 counter protestors shared self-defense techniques and scurried around barricades. They were in front of the Chaim Berlin Yeshiva on 1310 Avenue I in BK in anticipation of the Westboro Baptist Church protest. The Brooklyn Ink‘s Michael Keller was there. The group from Westboro arrived around five, carrying signs saying that Jews killed...
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October 11, 2010October 11, 2010Live Wire
California investors to resume stalled condo project in Brooklyn Heights
The Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund, of California, has taken control of the development at 20 Henry Street, The Wall Street Journal reports. The development stalled earlier this year when funding disappeared and the original developer, Urban Realty Partner, defaulted on the mortgage. The new developers, which include a company owned by former NBA star Magic Johnson,...
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October 11, 2010October 11, 2010Live Wire
Mugger still at large in Coney Island
A mugger who preys on elderly women is still loose, CBS2 New York reports. The man is wanted in connection with at least 6 robberies since June. His victims have all been women between 70 and 84, and all suffered minor injuries.
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October 11, 2010October 11, 2010Live Wire
Queens man shot and killed on Bushwick Avenue
A Queens man was shot and killed outside a housing project in Brooklyn on Sunday, NYDailyNews.com reports. According to the police, they responded to a 911 call shortly after 2:30 a.m. The victim, Pablo Rolan, 36, had been shot in the head outside the Bushwick Houses on Bushwick Ave. He was transported to Woodhull Hospital a block away...