Ukulele sales in Brooklyn are on the rise: A seller in Flatbush says his numbers are up 80 percent from last year.
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February 22, 2010March 1, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime, Politics
Zazi pleads guilty to terrorism charges
By Danielle Bengsch, contributed reporting Althea Fung Najibullah Zazi listened attentively to U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie in Federal District Court in Brooklyn today as he listed the charges: Zazi was alleged to be part of a conspiracy of planning an attack with weapons of mass destruction, being part of a conspiracy to commit murder...
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February 19, 2010February 25, 2010Brooklyn Life
Skiing on One Leg and a Big Heart
by Van Tieu After being shot in the back and losing his leg at the age of 15, Ralph “Putt” Green, a star quarterback, yearned for another sport to love. He searched for years and then found it in the snow. It was in the Poconos, far from his home at the Roosevelt Projects in...
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February 19, 2010March 4, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
Deliberations Resume After Juror Dismissal
A reconstituted jury panel began deliberations this afternoon in the trial of a Brooklyn police officer accused of sexual assault.
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February 19, 2010February 25, 2010Brooklyn Life
A Lonely Search for Life-Saving Cells
More than 100,000 Americans find out each year that they have a life-threatening disease, like leukemia, requiring a bone marrow transplant. About 30 percent of the patients in need of a transplant find a match within their families.
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February 18, 2010February 25, 2010Brooklyn Life, Politics
Student MetroCard Cut Draws Ire
United Federation of Teachers President Michael Milgrew today urged the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reverse its decision revoking the free student Metrocard program.
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February 18, 2010February 25, 2010Brooklyn Life, Politics
Arab-Americans Waiting for Change
Arab-Americans, gathered in Bay Ridge, pressed President Obama to move forward on immigration reform.
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February 18, 2010February 25, 2010Brooklyn Life, Religion
Orthodox Face Mumps Outbreak
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are heading to immunization clinics around the city after a mumps outbreak—the largest U.S. outbreak in five years—has spread through the community.
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February 17, 2010February 25, 2010Brooklyn Life, Business
Unemployed Compete for Census Jobs
The unemployed, who had heard that there was work to be found as census takers, began arriving to take their tests at noon.