After a period of silence and solemnity following Passover, the streets of Brooklyn were lit up by massive bonfires and humming with song on Saturday night, as Jewish residents celebrated Lag Ba'Omer.
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April 23, 2010April 29, 2010Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Video
Video – Las Vegas on Brighton Beach
They call it "Sex and the City meets Sleepless on Brighton Beach," but Tatiana Restaurant is so much more.
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April 22, 2010April 29, 2010Brooklyn Life
After School Ice Cream
It was 3 p.m. in Brooklyn Heights. School had just let out at PS8 and parents and nannies scrambled to collect their children as they walked out of the gates.
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April 22, 2010April 22, 2010Live Wire
The third day: Jose Sucuzhanay murder trial
The Brooklyn Ink is in court every day following the trial of Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott who are charged with the hate-crime murder of Jose Sucuzhanay. Amanda Massa will be reporting from Jay Street today.
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April 19, 2010April 28, 2010Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Slideshow, Video
Video – Dead Horse Bay, A Living Museum Of Trash
In the 1950s, a cap on a landfill burst, sending trash flowing onto Dead Horse Bay. Trash, both old and new, has continued to cascade onto the sands of Dead Horse Bay ever since.
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Video – Behind the Brine
Before Guss’ Pickles moved to Borough Park and became Ess-a-Pickle, Pat Fairchild took TheBrooklynInk.com on a briny odyssey from hot peppers to sauerkraut, and explained how a cucumber becomes a pickle.
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March 24, 2010March 31, 2010Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
So Indie, They Don’t Even Know It
By Yepoka Yeebo Last year, five 12-year-old girls from Brownsville, Brooklyn recorded an exuberant, electro-tinged song that would see them featured in music snob bibles ‘Pitchfork,’ and ‘The Fader.’ By a bizarre twist of the record industry, it became the soundtrack to luxury label Proenza Schouler’s show at Fashion Week in February. But only one...
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March 5, 2010March 5, 2010Live Wire
Your Weekend Subway Misery
The C is not running, the D isn't running between Herald Square and Pacific Street, there are no trains between 71 Av and Court Sq. Broad St-bound J trains will skip Flushing Av, Lorimer, and Hewes Streets
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March 5, 2010March 5, 2010Live Wire
More on Atlantic Yards Judge White Powder Scare
Cops say the substance was not dangerous, but weren’t sure if Justice Abraham Gerges was being targeted for Atlantic Yards, his current case - steroids – or something else in his 45 years of service.
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March 5, 2010March 5, 2010Live Wire
Anyone see a piece of corrugated steel fall…
from the building site at Smith Street and 2nd Place?
Luckily, there were no pedestrians in the way, otherwise, as Joe said, "they would have been sliced in half."