Category: <span>Brooklyn Life</span>

by Joi-Marie McKenzie and Joe Proudman A group of Pratt students stare wide eyed at a black Mazda with its roof caved in and shattered windows. A large tree branch rests around every side of it. “Oh my God,” one student says, as she takes out her cell phone. “I’m going to take a picture...

by Joi-Marie McKenzie and Joe Proudman Twenty-four hours after a tornado swept through Brooklyn, longtime Clinton Hill resident James Randall is picking up the pieces. The tree that once stood in front of his house and shaded the street now fills his front yard. Its branches cracked his window, broke off a piece of his...

by Michael Keller You’ve never seen so many hands reaching for matzo balls. And then there’s the Kugel: Broccoli Kugel, Butternut squash Kugel, Spinach Kugel, Sweet Noodle Kugel, Apple Cherry Kugel, Apple Blueberry Kugel, Champagne Grape Kugel and Salt and Pepper Kugel for the purist, all packed in neat plastic containers, their names properly visible....

By Shola Lynch On a hot Saturday afternoon deep in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Kevin Powell, candidate for the 10th Congressional District, was the opening act for the youngsters participating in a basketball tournament. The roughly 15 boys – and the one girl – had warmed up so they glistened with sweat. The kids already had...

In the wake of the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, both local and federal law enforcement have frequently employed the use of informants and undercover officers in terror investigations. Some people decry law enforcement’s actions as blatant acts of entrapment.

By: Danielle Hester Marva Braithwaite, 37, cupped the New International Version of the Bible in the palm of her petite maple-brown hands.  She thumbed through the pages to the Book of Isaiah and began to read aloud, starting at verse 49:13. “Shout for joy, O heaven,” she intoned on this day during the late summer...

By Sharyn Jackson Inside the Karlsburg synagogue on 53rd Street in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, one light always burns through the evening. Congregants say that Rabbi Yechezkel Roth spends most nights in his shul studying, taking only short naps in his chair while poring over ancient religious texts. But in the early hours...

By Keith Olsen At the beginning of August, the sidewalk at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 12th Street in Park Slope had been covered with candles, photos, flowers, teddy bears, potato chips, rosaries, and even unopened bottles of Corona beer and Bacardi rum.  Around 70 friends and family members gathered for a vigil at the...