By Amanda Massa and Mustafa Mehdi Vural Marriage can bring a smile to many people’s faces, but sometimes it brings tears. In the Turkish culture, the traditional henna night — which is performed just days before the wedding— does just that. The henna night, or kina gecesi , is for women only. Friends and family...
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March 11, 2010April 2, 2010Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Politics, Video
Video – Hundreds Protest Atlantic Yards
Van Tieu and Yepoka Yeebo Angry residents gathered at Barclays Center outside the Atlantic Yards Project to protest as Governor David Paterson and other officials broke ground on the new home of the New Jersey Nets.
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Victim’s Mother Mourns Neighborhood
By Joseph Alexiou One day after 10-year-old Dalila Gray was shot in the hand steps away from her home at 63 Stuyvesant Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, her mother Dalila Ramirez wants to leave the neighborhood she has called home for 29 years. “It’s gonna be hard to leave,” said Ramirez, 32. “I was 3 years old...
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March 5, 2010April 5, 2010Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Politics, Video
Video – One Gowanus: Three Voices
Three Brooklyn residents weigh in on the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to place the Gowanus Canal on the Superfund site list.
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March 2, 2010March 4, 2010Arts & Culture, Audio Slideshow, Brooklyn Life, Multimedia
Trim or Tattoo? A New Elvis Aesthetic in Williamsburg
By Joseph Alexiou It is only in a neighborhood like Williamsburg, in a borough like Brooklyn, that a group of creative young folks can open an Elvis-themed hair salon-cum-tattoo parlor without raising many eyebrows. Graceland is housed in a renovated former three-car garage at the corner of Lorimer and Withers streets. Embedded in the smooth...
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March 1, 2010March 3, 2010Audio Slideshow, Brooklyn Life, Business, Multimedia
Cash for Scraps in East NY
By Yepoka Yeebo and Matthew Huisman Gershow Recycling has owned the scrap yard on Pitkin Avenue in East New York for the past 10 years with more than 200-300 customers a day. Senior Facility Manager Eric Kugler took us on a tour of the facility.
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February 26, 2010March 9, 2010Audio Slideshow, Brooklyn Life
Beneath Atlantic Avenue
Brooklynite Bob Diamond, who discovered the world's oldest subway tunnel in 1979, give a tour and tells the tale of his great discovery.
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February 26, 2010April 5, 2010Brooklyn Life, Business, Multimedia, Video
Video – Parking Around Me
A startup company is using text messages to alert Park Slope residents of available parking spots.
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February 23, 2010April 2, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime, Video
VIdeo – After the fire: Luisa’s funeral
Miguel Chan mourns at a funeral for his wife Luisa Chan, victim of the Bensonhurst fire that killed four others.
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February 22, 2010February 23, 2010Multimedia, Slideshow
After the Fire: The Funeral
By Jeannette Neumann Brooklyn’s Guatemalan community gathered on Friday in a Coney Island funeral home to remember the five people who died at the end of January in a blaze allegedly set by a man living in their building. The funeral had been postponed until the bodies were identified.