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Monday, June 18, 2012
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11-Year-Old Brooklyn Boy Saves Mom, Stabs Boyfriend; and More Brooklyn Briefs
- 11-year-old Brooklyn boy saved the lives of his mother and a cousin by stabbing mom’s violence-prone boyfriend with a kitchen knife. NY Daily News
- Downtown site sells for $19 million to “Brooklyn Princess.” Plans call for 35 stories and 214 units. Brownstoner
- Brooklyn judge says cops have to prove a defendant's drink has alcohol, not just claim they could smell it. Brooklyn Eagle
- Search for missing New Jersey boy focuses on Brooklyn. Carroll Gardens Patch
- In case you missed it, here are all the winners of the Brooklyn Film Festival last week. BFF
- The Brooklyn Flea feeds "this bottomless, infinite need for stories about Brooklyn." NonaBrooklyn via Atlantic Yards Report
- Coast Guard suspends search off New Jersey coast after another apparent hoax. NY Magazine
- Rodney King died at 47. Gawker
- You're gonna hate Windows 8 at first. Then you may still hate it. TechCrunch
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Video: Brooklyn Nets Dance Team Final Audition
Did you miss the Brooklyn Nets Dance Team's final audition? So did we.
Thank goodness there is a video of the winners. They're not actually from Brooklyn but anyway. They will be shaking it for the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Arena.
The dance team's new name is the Brooklynettes. Get it?
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Brooklyn Reps Call on MTA to Restore Service on B64 Bus Line
On Saturday representatives and Transportation Workers joined in a rally in front of the Ulmer Park Bus Depot in Brooklyn to protest cuts to the B64 bus line, which runs between Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge.
Democratic State Senate candidate Andrew Gounardes, Assemblyman William Colton and Transportation Workers United Local 100 said that service reductions on the B64 line have especially affected senior citizens, the disabled, and school children who rely on the bus line on a daily basis.
They want the MTA to restore full service to the B64 south of Harway Avenue/25th Avenue.
Gounardes said in a statement that the issue here is not just cuts to the B64 but the way the MTA makes decisions in general.
“The time has come for the people of southern Brooklyn to reclaim their transportation system. For too long, we've watched as an unaccountable MTA chipped away at our bus and train service and tone-deaf Albany politicians tried to cut transit even more. This March - while riders from Bath Beach to Marine Park struggled to get just to get to their doctors, schools, and jobs - State Senator Marty Golden and his fellow Republican leaders in Albany tried to cut $770 million in MTA funding!"
He added, "We have almost no say in how funds are spent or priorities determined . . . We need to find a permanent revenue source for our public transit system and not let the fate of our subways and buses be subject to the politics of budget games in Albany."
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Friday, June 15, 2012
City Admits That There ARE Toxic PCBs at Two Carroll Gardens Schools
The city's Department of Education admitted on Friday that toxic PCBs are indeed dripping from contaminated lighting fixtures at two Carroll Gardens schools.
DOE told the Brooklyn Eagle
that the city would remove leaking fixtures from P.S. 146
Brooklyn New School and M.S. 448 Brooklyn Secondary School for
Collaborative Studies (at 610 Henry Street) early next week.
Parents, representatives and advocacy organizations have been holding protest marches and signing petitions since the beginning of the school year but couldn't seem to catch DOE's attention.
The Eagle reports that hundreds of schools across the city have PCB-containing lighting fixtures and caulk. PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) have been linked
to cancer, respiratory, endocrine, reproductive and immune disorders.
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Obama Endorces Velázquez, Says Get Out There and Vote
President Obama endorsed Representative Nydia Velázquez, a 20-year veteran of Congress (7th Congressional district), for reelection and urged Brooklynites to vote for her in the June 26th primary and again in November.
"For the past two decades, Rep. Nydia Velázquez has been a constant advocate for middle-class families, helping to create an economy built to last where everyone has an opportunity to achieve the American Dream," said the President, in a release sent to us by the Congresswoman's office.
Obama said that Velázquez has worked to create middle-class jobs through community projects, provide affordable housing, and invest in education.
Congresswoman Velázquez is currently serving her tenth term as Representative for New York's 12th Congressional District, now known as the 7th CD. In the 112th Congress, she is the Ranking Member of the House Small Business Committee and a senior member of the Financial Services Committee.
In 1992, she was the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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More Than 9,300 Apply for 1,900 Part Time Jobs at Barclays
More than 9,300 people applied for jobs at the Barclays Center, opening Sept. 28 in Brooklyn according to Atlantic Yards Report, quoting Crain's (subscription).
Job seekers heard about the work from postcards mailed to Housing Authority residents by developer Forest City Ratner, which also visited local churches. About 2,000 jobs are available; roughly 1,900 are part time and 100 full time.
Atlantic Yards Report asks, "Does this mean the arena's a savior, or that Brooklyn has a lot of unemployed people?"
Many of the jobs are likely at the Barclays' many bars, nightclubs and restaurants which will spill thousands of drunken, brawling patrons out into the surrounding residential streets at 2 a.m.
Photo: Barclays Center
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Reports: Toll Bros and Starwood to Share Pier 1 Hotel, Condo Dev. in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation is set to vote next Tuesday on a developer to construct a hotel and condo building at Pier 1, and Brownstoner links to stories in Crain’s and The Times that report that two of the seven original RFP respondents will be awarded the job as a team.
“The team…will likely be made up of Toll Brothers and Starwood Capital Group, according to sources,” Crain’s says. More here.
Related post:
- Seven Different Proposals To Build Huge Hotel and Residential Complex In Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Swastica Spree in Borough Park, Brooklyn: Reward Offered UPDATE: Caught on Camera
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| Councilman David G. Greenfield reviews security footage. |
Borough Park (also spelled Boro Park) is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside of Israel.
Council Greenfield's office said that swastikas were discovered early this morning spray painted on at least six buildings in the vicinity of 16th Avenue, including a synagogue, a public school and several businesses. The NYPD is investigating this hate crime against Brooklyn’s Jewish community, including reviewing security footage from local businesses.
“Once again, we find ourselves under attack from individuals who think nothing of spreading hate and fear throughout the community. This is absolutely unacceptable, especially in an area that is home to so many Holocaust survivors," Greenfield said.
UPDATE: Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said this morning, "Cameras on the streets have proven their worth by catching footage of the perpetrators, and they will face consequences for what they’ve done."
Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD’s confidential tip line at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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Not Your Imagination: DUMBO's Pearl Street Triangle Not Green Anymore
Well as of Thursday the green is plumb gone, replaced by broad sections of color.
It seems that Brooklyn artist David Ellis is painting an ever-changing mural. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, Thursday was Day 1 of a four- or five-day project. On each day of the installation, the work will change as Ellis paints new layers of design.
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- DUMBO’s famous Pearl Street Triangle not green anymore — becoming a mural
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