By Yepoka Yeebo Last year, five 12-year-old girls from Brownsville, Brooklyn recorded an exuberant, electro-tinged song that would see them featured in music snob bibles ‘Pitchfork,’ and ‘The Fader.’ By a bizarre twist of the [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Two New York City police officers apprehended 19-year-old Julio Iglesias after witnessing the suspect shoot Gavin Torres, 19. According to police reports, Officers Christopher Deats and Allison Rodriguez of the 70th Precinct heard a gunshot [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Alyson Martin The lowest wage earning city freelancers will likely find relief with their health insurance under the healthcare bill signed by President Barack Obama Tuesday, but the middle-class freelancers will still struggle. The [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The Hispanic man in his 30′s who was found after firefighters extinguished an early morning blaze in Sunset Park had his throat slashed, NY1 reports. Neighbors said that the abandoned building had many visitors. Several [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Our Sudip Mukherjee brings us the latest from Dave Rose, a union worker with the FDNY Union, who said that 50 unions were helping stump for candidate Joe Lazar as they canvased neighborhoods throughout the [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Our Sudip Mukherjee also spoke with two residents in the area who went to cast their vote at PS 160. Issac Korman, who lives near the school wasn’t able to vote at PS 160 because [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Our Sudip Mukherjee spoke with Chonie Boymelgreen, a 24-year-old canvaser for Joe Lazar, passing out flyers near PS 160. Boymelgreen said the Lazar campaign ramped up efforts to get out the vote, calling voters and [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Our Sudip Mukherjee brings us the latest from poll worker Sindy Tam at PS 160 in Borough Park. Tam, who has been working as a Chinese interperator for the past 10 years at PS 185, said [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The polls in Sunset Park experienced low voter turnout for today’s city council special election. There have been 29 residents to cast their vote since the polls opened at 6 a.m. at PS 160. Low [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Jennifer Brookland As hard-fought health insurance legislation comes across President Obama’s desk, the economic problems of the Bronx are apparent in the places people get their insurance. One in five people in the Bronx [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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