Some 70 students, teachers, parents and local union members marched Wednesday through Coney Island to protest state and city budget cuts to education.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Jewish leaders have condemned Brooklyn prosecutors who are working to extradite a Crown Heights man wanted in connection with a hate crime back to New York. Rabbis and Jewish community leaders posted letters to freeyitzi.org [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty to the murders of four people Wednesday after a psychiatrist shot down the possibility of an insanity defense. Maksim Gelman, 24, will face 100 years to life in prison in [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Assemblyman William Boyland, of Brooklyn, was arrested on Tuesday for federal bribery charges.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Violence erupts randomly on the streets of Crown Heights. What has remained consistent is the need for children to get out and play. The violence has been a subject of recent community board and precinct [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
A plan to commercially develop Admiral’s Row, a six-acre parcel of land in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was unanimously approved yesterday by the City Council, the New York Post reported. A 74,000-square-foot supermarket will be [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Advocates and critics of a plan to open a charter school in the same building as three other schools in Cobble Hill clashed Tuesday night in the city’s first charter school co-location hearing of the [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
“I started carrying my camera when I decided I might be able to make some interesting photographs.” Andy Vernon-Jones is a local photographer who captured Red Hook’s spirit in his new book, Here in Red Hook.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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Nika Maynard, 37, is an unemployed Carnasie resident who struggles to pay rent because she is in the middle of a prolonged legal battle for a daughter she shares with her ex-partner, Stephanie.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
State and federal transportation officials have abandoned plans to repair and modernize two Brooklyn highways, the New York Post reported. The Brooklyn-Queens and Gowanus expressways had been slated for billions of dollars worth of work, [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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