East New York is a food desert, a neighborhood with little to no access to fresh produce. As a result, the diet of children growing up here is based mostly on fast food restaurants and bodegas. According to a research by the Citizens Committee for Children, East New York is a high-risk zone for obesity....
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March 5, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Video
[VIDEO] Boerum Hill’s Lost Demographic
It used to be a lower middle class neighborhood of mostly Puerto Rican immigrants. In the past decade, most have left. The few that stayed have mixed feelings about what has become of their community.
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February 10, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn Resident Arrested for Rubbing Groin Against Woman
Cops cuffed Cody Santiago, 20, after he was spotted rubbing his groin against a 27-year-old woman on a No. 5 train in Union Square about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, cops said.
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February 10, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Reckless Building Super Nearly Causes Disaster
An FDNY investigation discovered Piotr Jedruczek had used multiple garden hoses to bypass his apartment’s meters and power his water heater. The hoses ran inches away from the heater’s open flame and could have caused an explosion, officials said.
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February 9, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Boy Killed In House Fire During Winter Storm
A quick-moving fire in a Brooklyn home killed a little boy during the height of winter storm Nemo early Saturday morning, officials said. The 8-year-old, who wasn’t immediately identified, was sleeping in the first floor of the home at Bedford Avenue near Farragut Road in Flatbush when the fire broke out just before 3 a.m.
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February 8, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Goat Escaped From Brooklyn Slaughterhouse, Runs Wild
A goat with a survival instinct escaped from a slaughterhouse and was found running through the streets of Brooklyn at 1 a.m. Thursday. The goat was described as looking “disoriented” (although that’s how pretty much everyone in Brooklyn looks in the small hours of the morning) and banged into several buildings before being corralled in...
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February 8, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Bed-Stuy Center for Disabled Kids Forced to Move Out By July 2013
A popular Bedford Stuyvesant center for special needs children is hunting for a new host for their kids. The private Co-op School, which currently enrolls 220 preschool to first grade students, must make room for an incoming second grade class. Read more at the Daily News.
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February 8, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklynites Prepare for Nor’easter
City Dwellers out in full force preparing to fight what’s expected to be the first significant snowfall since the nor’easter that hit the city the week after Hurricane Sandy.
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February 7, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
New Park Slope School Named After Legendary Children’s Books Author
P.S. 118, opening this fall on Fourth Avenue and Eighth Street, will be called the Maurice Sendak Community School. Sendak — best known for creating fanciful worlds where little boys play with monsters or visit magical kitchens — was born in Brooklyn and died in Connecticut in May 2012.
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February 7, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Surveillance Cam Exposes: Thief Disguised As FedEx Deliveryman
A man dressed as a FedEx deliveryman was among a crew of thieves that robbed a Brooklyn home earlier this month, police said. When the resident opened his front door for the faux-deliveryman, four other men forced their way inside, cops said.