Orthodox Face Mumps Outbreak
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.
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Unemployed workers compete for census jobs
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 [...]
Unemployed Compete for Census Jobs
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.
School Aide Starts Fight, Videos it on Cell Phone
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.
Brooklyn Schools Make More Headlines
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 [...]
Remembering Benny Lyde
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Benny Lyde was killed four years ago. This spring, his alleged killer is set to stand trial for his murder.
Crown Heights institution fights threat of closure
Thursday, December 10, 2009
The building used was sold earlier this year with the expectation that all the tenants would leave. But the community — a term that encompasses everyone from elected officials to the bar’s regular stable of crotchety seniors who take the place over in the afternoons — is trying to find a way to keep the Starlite Lounge in business for another 50 years.
Tough Crowd
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
By Jack Mirkinson Inspector Peter Simonetti, Commanding Officer for the 71st Precinct, had come to the auditorium of Middle School 61 in Crown Heights to tell the audience at the monthly meeting of Community Board 9 to work with the police and watch out for suspicious activity. A meeting that had contained the usual ragged but pleasant atmosphere quickly turned into something altogether spikier.
Dispute Over Messiah Goes to Court
Friday, November 6, 2009
Six members of the Orthodox Jewish patrol Shomrim were back in the Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday, on trial for allegedly attacking yeshiva students in Crown Heights two years ago.
Legal Troubles
Friday, October 30, 2009
By Jack Mirkinson Judge Neil Firetog, a man who does not suffer fools gladly, was presiding over a homicide case one Thursday morning at the Kings County Criminal Court on Jay Street when the prosecutor in the case, Mr. Hale, revealed that the defense attorney, Mr. Ward, had committed a rather large lawyerly error. One of [...]
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