More than 280,000 children live in Brooklyn. Every single one of them has a story to tell. Reporters from the Brooklyn Ink spent a month scouring the borough for these stories, here’s what they found:
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April 15, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Sports
Brooklyn Remembers Number 42
Brooklyn residents relived the days of the Dodgers with the premiere of "42," the biopic of sports and civil rights legend Jackie Robinson.
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April 14, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn Strollers March to Save Long Island College Hospital
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...
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April 13, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Coney Island Pier Damaged by Sinking Barge
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.
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April 13, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Police Seek Suspect for Three Rapes in Brooklyn
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...
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April 12, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn’s Markowitz Delivers His Last State of the Borough
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....
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April 12, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn Hasidic Sect Considering Buying Williamsburg Armory
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...
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April 11, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Parachute Jump Getting 20 Times More Wattage on Coney Island
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...
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April 11, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn Apartment Buildings Burn Down After Lighting Strike
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.
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April 10, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Controversial Firm Chosen by Brooklyn’s Domino Factory Developer for Asbestos Removal
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...