NY1 reports that there could be several arrests over the Brooklyn bar brawl between firefighters and civilians at the Salty Dog last week. The charges will depend on the extent of the injuries. Last Friday, off-duty and retired members of Engine 310, Ladder 174 were drinking at the bar in Bay Ridge. Sources say a firefighter...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Thieves Caught, Stole $250 000 and Ferrari from Camera Store Owner
Derrick Diaz and Jason Cuebas, two perps who broke into the Midwood home of Joseph Douek, locked his two kids into the bathroom and made off with jewelry, cash and a black Ferrari last year, were arrested yesterday. Through DNA left at the crime scene the two were eventually tracked down. Read more at the Daily News
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Defense in Suspect Abuse Case Questions Evidence
Lawyers defending three police officers accused of abusing a suspect in a Brooklyn subway station or covering it up mounted a wide-ranging attack Thursday on the case made by prosecutors, suggesting that forensic evidence may have been faked and that witness testimony did not back up the charges. [NYTimes]
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Atlantic Yards Not Brooklyn’s First Multi-Venue Complex
In 2010, we all have an opinion of the proposed Atlantic Yards Barclay’s Center, but how many people are aware that Brooklyn already had its own multi-venue sports and social center over a hundred years ago? Fort Greene was home to the Clermont Avenue Rink, one of the most important events places in late 19th...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Brooklyn Schools Make More Headlines
The principal of a Brooklyn high school was removed from his post after he was anonymously accused of coming to work drunk. Ira Weston of Paul Robeson High School in Crown Heights was reassigned to administrative duties Monday, less than a week after the Education Department got the okay to close his school for poor...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Real Estate Scam BBusts in Brooklyn
Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes announced the arrests of 12 people in a series of unrelated mortgage and real estate scams in Brooklyn. One of the men charged, Todd Graham, was first exposed in an Arnold Diaz Shame investigation in May. Graham was apparently posting Craigslist ads for apartments he claimed to own, but...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
NYC Poet Laureate Field Sort of Crowded
Upon reading the news that Tina Chang is to be Brooklyn’s new poet laureate, we wondered what kind of environment she’d be entering. Would she stand alone and represent the entire city by proxy, or would she have to jockey for position amidst a tangle of other wordsmiths? As it turns out, it’s a little of...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Scary Anti-Semite Now Behind Bars
Prosecutors announced today that Ivalyo Ivanov (not to be confused with the Bulgarian soccer player) pled guilty to drawing swatstikas on several Brooklyn Heights synagogues, as well as hoarding a chache of guns and explosives in his apartment. Ivanov, arrested two years ago, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.By all accounts, Ivanov was a committed Nazi...
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February 4, 2010March 4, 2010Live Wire
Update On What We’re Following
The fallout continues from that vicious brawl that broke out in a Bay Ridge bar last week. Our Mustafa Mehdi is there now, getting all the details. UPDATE: Mustafa went, and found . . . not much. The area seems to have quieted down, and people have moved on.
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February 4, 2010March 2, 2010Live Wire
Two Stories About Haitians In Brooklyn
New York has more Haitian immigrants than anywhere else in the world–and a great number of them live in Brooklyn. On Saturday, WNYC went to Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights to talk to undocumented Haitian immigrants applying for Temporary Protected Status, which will allow them to stay in the U.S. for another 18 months in...