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 [...]
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Davie McKenzie, 28, was shot in the chest and killed Sunday night at about 11:20 p.m. on E. 21st St. in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Witnesses say they heard a succession of “pops.” Those gunshots also injured two other men, a 30 year-old and a 42 year-old. No one has been arrested. Share
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
When Ji-liek English gave a cashier a hard time on Tuesday at a Food Dynasty in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, his older brother had to do something, so he defended the woman. But when the argument escalated into the street, few could have predicted what happened next. According to the Daily News, Melson (LT) Simpson, 31, [...]
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Just a year after joining a union, staffers at KIPP AMP Academy Charter School in Crown Heights voted to rescind the decision to sign up with the United Federation of Teachers, the Times reports. The petition to break from the union was filed last week with signatures from 16 staff members, [...]
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
By Sierra Brown Adrienne Blanks, 26, loves her chic two-bedroom apartment. The wood floors, granite tabletops and brand new Frigidaire dishwasher and refrigerator attracted her to the cozy Bedford-Stuyvesant abode. At $875 a month — $1,750 that she splits with her roommate — her building, known as the Stable House, is a bold step up from [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are heading to immunization clinics around the city after a mumps outbreak—the largest U.S. outbreak in five years—has spread through the community.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The unemployed, who had heard that there was work to be found as census takers, began arriving to take their tests at noon. One by one they rang the bell at Community Board 8’s office in Crown Heights and, once buzzed in, made their way to the front desk where they signed in before being [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The unemployed, who had heard that there was work to be found as census takers, began arriving to take their tests at noon.
Friday, February 12, 2010
In another elementary-school-Fight-Club style revelation, a school aide in Crown Heights has been suspended after goading two 10-year-olds engaged in a ‘yo mama’ fight, calling the school bully over to join in, and, according to students, taping the fight on her cell phone, according to The Daily News. Share
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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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