Otis “Junior” Edmonds was a man of exacting routines.
Every morning he rose at 5, walked out of his house, went to the Classon Grocery on the corner of Prospect Place, bought his newspaper and his scratch-off lottery tickets, got in his car and read the newspaper before heading to work.
Except for yesterday when Edmond, 63, was shot in the head as sat behind the wheel of his burgundy Mazda 626, reading his paper.
If you’re interested in the view from Red Hook, check out today’s Here is Brooklyn piece by Miranda Lin.
Al-Khattab, 40, was formerly a Jew named Joseph Cohen, who grew up and lived amongst the Hassidic communities in Williamsburg. He converted to Islam in 2004. According to Warner and other critics, he has used his site to incite violence against Jewish people and has been known to be openly anti-semitic.
“Ball four! Take your base,” the umpire barked in a husky voice. The Latina batter in an oversized NYPD Commissioner’s Baseball Tournament t-shirt sauntered over to first as her teammates cheered and whistled from the sidelines. “Great eye, Tina, way to be patient!” She had not swung once.
Meet Steve Baldwin, the founder of the Brooklyn Parrot Society and his wild winged friends in the heart of Brooklyn. Photo: Baynes/Brooklyn Ink.
The minute Olsen Hill saw the uniforms at his door, he knew. He had served in the military. No words were necessary. His son, Kevin O. Hill, was dead. He was a 23-year-old soldier from Brooklyn deployed in Afghanistan.
More than 40 Brooklyn residents travelled to the state’s high court in Albany today to challenge Bruce Ratner’s controversial Atlantic Yard’s development and to fight against the abuses of eminent domain.
A fisherman rescues a Brooklyn mom and her two daughters from drowning, after her car plunged into the water in Sheepshead Bay.
In the transient world of cash transactions, street-side pickups, and blurry licensing laws, nothing is certain but competition.
A scene from Marcus Garvey Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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