Category: <span>Live Wire</span>

A Cobble Hill ‘Stroller March’ was held Saturday by parents and their children born at Long Island College Hospital in an appeal to Governor Cuomo to keep LICH open. SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which owns LICH, has sought to close the hospital but has been blocked by a Brooklyn judge pending a full court hearing...

A barge was sinking off of Coney Island Saturday and trying to bring the Steeple-Chase Pier with it. The barge was being used to affect repairs on the pier after it sustained damage from Hurricane Sandy. Read more at nbcnewyork.com. 

The NYPD is looking for a man who raped three women in Brooklyn. The suspect engaged each victim in conversation before luring them to the site of the assault, two just blocks from each other in East Flatbush and one in Canarsie. The suspect is described as a black male in his 20s, 5’9″ tall, 160-180...

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz delivered his final State of the Borough address Thursday night. Markowitz is wrapping up his 12th and final year, having hit his term limit. In a spectacle of an event at the Barclays Center, he touted the creation of new businesses and various building and improvement projects in the pipeline....

The Satmar sect of Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg is considering buying the massive armory on Eighth Avenue. The armory was built for the National Guard in the late 1800s but has been vacant for the last two years. The Satmars hope to use the 165,000-square-foot building for schools and community space to alleviate some of...

The city has paid for a $2 million upgrade to the lights on the Parachute Jump in a project spearheaded by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Coney Island’s main ride operator, Zamperla USA, has installed 8.000 new LED lights, up from the previous 450, in order to produce pulsing light displays and shows. It’s speculated...

Several Brooklyn apartment buildings were destroyed Thursday morning in a three alarm fire in Bedford-Stuyvesant, leaving dozens homeless. According to fire marshals, the blaze was started by a lightning strike at about 3:15 a.m. on a building on  Pulaski Street. Read more at abclocal.com.

Yoga instructor decided to make the movement available for Lubavitchers – she opened a studio where “no men, no mantras and no oms are allowed.” Read about the popularity of yoga in a Jewish neighborhood at dnainfo.com

An asbestos abatement firm with a history of citations for unsafe abatement and a five year ban on bidding on public projects has been chosen by the new developers of Brooklyn’s Domino Factory. The ban on public project bidding ban comes from New York Insulation’s 2012 guilty plea to stiffing workers on a job at a...

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is dipping his toes back into politics, seriously considering running for mayor of New York City. Weiner has been in and out of the public eye since he resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2011 after being caught sending lewd pictures of himself in electronic messages. The former representative...