Tag Archive | "Mary Plummer"

East Brooklyn Clinic Celebrates Women’s Health Week

Thursday, May 13, 2010

0 Comments

Patients and staff at Dr. Betty Shabazz Health Center in East New York discuss their biggest health worries. Mary Plummer reports.

Video – Death Bear Gets Sad So You Don’t Have To

Monday, May 10, 2010

0 Comments

Performance artist Nate Hill has been visiting homes in Brooklyn dressed as Death Bear, a character he created to help rid people of their heart aches. Mary Plummer reports.

Video – Lamb Lovers, Eat Your Heart Out

Monday, April 26, 2010

0 Comments

By Mary Plummer and Bradley Gallo On April 18, New Yorkers gathered at The Bell House in Brooklyn to sample 20 competing lamb recipes. Local chefs spared off with dishes ranging from lamb cupcakes to [...]

Love: City Clerk’s Office Style

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

5 Comments

Every day people wake up and decide to get married. For some, that means a trip to Brooklyn's City Clerk at Borough Hall. Mary Plummer, Joseph Alexiou and Todd Stone report on love inside a government building.

VIDEO – Hailing a Cab Just Got a Little Easier

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

0 Comments

A new iPhone application eases the pain of finding a cab in Brooklyn. CabSense was created using the GPS data from 90 million cab rides to come up with a map that plots the most popular historical pickup and drop-off points. By Mary Plummer

Video – Brooklyn Crowns its Queen

Saturday, April 3, 2010

6 Comments

Brooklyn College hosted the third annual Miss Brooklyn Scholarship Pageant March 28, and nine women vied for their shot at the crown.

New York Times Catches Ink Scooping It

Friday, March 12, 2010

1 Comment

Earlier this morning, we tweeted about a story the New York Times ran on its august City Room blog about people auditioning for a show called “Brighton Beach,” billed as a sort of Russian version [...]

Video – WWE or Bust

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

3 Comments

Dreams of turning pro have brought wrestler Patrick Ellrich, aka "The Attraction, Hayden Young," from Atlanta, Georgia to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Though he'll attend a WWE tryout camp next week, Ellrich has bigger things on his mind.

Beekeeping Still a Crime of Passion

Monday, February 8, 2010

4 Comments

By Mary Plummer Megan Paska so missed the outdoors when she moved to Greenpoint that she turned to a life of crime: beekeeping. Paska is one of hundreds of beekeepers around the city who’ve been [...]