by Ryan Tracy The bill even revamps the federal government’s system for making loans to college students. The loans would now be given to students directly, eliminating a decades-old program whereby private banks made student loans based on a government guarantee. For more than 100 current Yeshiva University students who hold loans under the soon-to-be-ended...
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March 23, 2010March 23, 2010Live Wire
Woman Survives Fall From Brooklyn Bridge
Susan Cloud, a Long Island woman, is in critical condition after leaping from the Brooklyn Bridge Monday morning, the Daily News reports. About 11:30 a.m. NYPD harbor cops plucked Cloud from the water near Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport and was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
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March 23, 2010March 23, 2010Live Wire
One Found Dead after Early Morning Blaze
At 1:22 a.m. firefighters and police from the 72nd district responded to a call of a fire at 322 56 Street in the Sunset Park neighborhood. Upon extinguishing the fire, firefighters discovered the body of a Hispanic man in his 30’s. It is unknown at this time whether the man died in the blaze. The cause of...
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March 23, 2010March 23, 2010Live Wire
Special Election Day
Residents living in Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Midwood take to the polls today to fill the empty 44th district city council seat. Today’s three-way runoff is between Joe Lazar, David Greenfield and Kenneth Rice to fill the seat vacated by Simcha Felder after he was appointed to deputy comptroller for budget and accounting by the newly elected...
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March 8, 2010March 9, 2010Live Wire
Police kill man armed with fake gun
A man brandishing a fake firearm behind Raoul Wallenberg School (P.S. 194) was shot dead by police. Officers from the 61st Precinct responded to a call of a man with a gun at 3:10 p.m.
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March 8, 2010March 12, 2010Brooklyn Life
Local star brings Oscars to neighborhood
By Todd Stone Graceful and glamorous, Debbie Dangerfield, wearing a form-fitting bright red gown, drifted from one table to the next in a church school auditorium-turned-ballroom Sunday night. This was her annual Oscars party and she regaled her guests as they began to take their seats. The tradition started 20 years ago when she invited...
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March 2, 2010March 3, 2010Brooklyn Life, Business, Politics
Gowanus: The Background
by Matthew Huisman The Environmental Protection Agency now has the legal authority to go after The City of New York and eight other polluters who for decades contributed to contamination of the Gowanus Canal. The EPA was granted the power after labeling the 1.8-mile canal that divides Red Hook and South Brooklyn from Park Slope...
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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 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.
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February 9, 2010February 19, 2010Brooklyn Life, Business
Snow Won’t Stop the Cabs
Traffic in the borough is bad enough, but factor in a foot of snow and driving becomes a dangerous endeavor.