A funeral home owner in Brownsville, Brooklyn donated services for the five members of the Jones family who died in a fiery murder-suicide on Staten Island in late July. Police originally thought C.J., a 14 year-old victim committed the crime, but later ruled that the responsibility was with the mother, Leisa Jones, 30, NY1 reports. [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
By Kelly Boyce Four years ago, Chanel Petro-Nixon was murdered near her home in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn at the age of 16. A community activist posted signs in the neighborhood that said, “Somebody Knows Something.” To this day, no one has come forth with any information. In the hopes that someone still will, Chanel’s family [...]
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Couples fight, yes, but a judge is making an extreme example of an Orthodox Jewish couple in Williamsburg. Judge Eric Prus handed down a decision Tuesday that Pinchs and Nechama Gold must construct a wall dividing their 3,000 square foot home after years of bitter relationship turmoil. “They’ve been living like there was a wall [...]
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Daily News is reporting today 59 people have been murdered in the East New York area in 2010. That number is high, compared to last year’s statistics. For the same period, 43 people were killed in northern Brooklyn in 2009. In Brownsville, there has been a 47 percent rise in shootings, from 34 halfway [...]
Friday, July 2, 2010
The schedule for this summer’s Pool Parties free concert series at McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg can be found here. Share
Friday, July 2, 2010
Timothy Dahl, a Brooklyn resident, is suing the makers of Yoo-Hoo for $5 million because the drink claims to be healthy when it’s actually full of “dangerous, unhealthy, non-nutritious, partially hydrogenated oil,” the New York Post is reporting. Share
Monday, June 28, 2010
Managers didn’t file critical information about Brooklyn residents correctly, and now about 10,000 homes need to be recounted, the U.S. Census Bureau has said. The people responsible are not the workers in communities and knocking on doors, but instead two managers at a local Brooklyn office. They have been fired, the U.S. Census Bureau announced [...]
Friday, June 25, 2010
According to the Wall Street Journal, four whiskey distilleries are in the process of opening in Brooklyn. There have been recent law changes that make it easier and cheaper to open a distillery and people seem to be taking advantage of the business prospect. “It seemed clear to us once we looked into the legal [...]
Friday, June 25, 2010
Several news outlets are reporting the hardship some Brooklyn residents will face as a result of citywide cuts to try to bridge an $800 million budget gap. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has decided to slash several subway service lines, including the V and W trains, which are between Manhattan and Queens. But the MTA is [...]
Thursday, June 24, 2010
A Bedford-Stuyvesant man is a freelance computer designer by day and an amateur nuclear scientist at night. He has been working in a Brooklyn warehouse for two years on the nuclear fusion reactor and has spent about $35,000 of his own money on parts from eBay, according to the Daily News. “I was inspired because [...]
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