Downtown is BK’s Fastest Growing Hood Downtown Brooklyn has gone from a struggling business district littered with 99-cent stores to a struggling business district littered with condos. According to The Post, in the last decade, the population has exploded from around 3,000 to almost 17,000. Bed Stuy tenants go months without heat, hot water Tenants in...
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February 12, 2010February 12, 2010Brooklyn Life
Jogging in a Fur Coat
It was a young blond woman, wearing blue track pants and an ankle length brown fur coat. The only looks the jogger received were appraising and approving glances
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February 12, 2010February 19, 2010Brooklyn Life, Business
Free Parking Spots, a Text Away
Park Slope drivers can spend 27 minutes per day looking for parking spots, but those hours of endless circling could shrink, thanks to ParkingAroundMe.
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February 12, 2010February 12, 2010Brooklyn Life
Tears in Bed-Stuy
A young child meanders down Nostrand Avenue, weeping loudly on one of the coldest nights this winter season.
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Morning Roundup | Feb.10
Canarsie murder Late Tuesday night a man in his 20s was shot multiple times on East 95th St. The investigation is ongoing Reward offered for missing boy information The NYPD is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of those responsible for the disappearance of 7 year-old Patrick Alford, of East...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
The F-train Takes the Weekend off
Inconvenient for Park Slopers: The F-train will be completely shut down at least seven weekends during the next 11 months, the New York Post reports. It will not run on Feb. 20-22 and Feb. 27-March 1. Shuttle busses will replace the trains on those weekends. Additionally, the G-trains will not run on those weekends, either.
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February 4, 2010March 2, 2010Live Wire
Boy Hit by Car in Bergen Beach
Boy Hit by Car in Bergen Beach According to the NYPD, a car hit a 12-year old boy on Monday afternoon on Avenue N. The boy was transported to Kings County Hospital, where he arrived in “serious condition.”
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Handyman Found Guilty of Murder
The handyman Anthony Cuyler, who was accused of beating Katrine Anderson (63) to death in her apartment in the Ebbets Field Houses of Crown Heights in 2008, was found guilty of second-degree murder on Monday at the Brooklyn Supreme Court House.
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Child-Endangering Mother Charged After East New York Fire
According to a Daily News report, the two male children, ages 3 and 5, were badly injured by a fire in an apartment at 6 p.m. Friday in East New York. Fire fighters from NYFD Engine 257 removed the children who were then resuscitated before being placed in New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell for smoke inhalation....
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
BB Gun Wielder Shot by Cops
Police are investigating an incident last Friday when a 61-year old man refused to drop a pistol-shaped object at 1:20 a.m. in front of 364 Linden St. at Myrtle Ave. According to a New York Times report, after ignoring the orders of an officer James Crockett was subsequently shot in the thigh and left side of...