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Sex slave horror in Brooklyn

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:58:01 +0000

A sex slave trafficker lured a love-smitten 15-year-old girl to from Mexico to Brooklyn, turned her into a prostitute and then let their infant child die without medical care, authorities said today. The ghoulish story emerged as federal agents raid...

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‘Amen, Amen, Amen’ author live

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

By Meredith Deliso Most days, you can find Abby Sher setting up shop in one of her local coffee shops, whether it’s Outpost, Tillie’s, or Bitter Sweet, to write. “I have certain places even in the café where, oh this is where I get inspired,” says Sher, who has lived in Fort Greene for the ...

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Happy Thanksgiving.

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:48:41 +0000

No gravy this year, just Russian dressing (the gravy was used up on Forest City Ratner's gravy train). On a more serious note, we offer our gratitude at this time of thanks giving to all of our supporters as we close the sixth year of the ongoing, grassroots community fight against ...

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Field Music is game for Bell House b’day bash

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

By Meredith Deliso Seeing your favorite band for your birthday is a fortuitous experience of timing for the average concert goer. For the booker of a New York City venue, it can be just the same thing. This December 3, Jack “Skippy” McFadden, the booker for the Bell House in Gowanus, has ...

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Happy Thankgsgiving, Everyone!

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:04:00 +0000

Dear Friends, I would like to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving and hope that you have lots to be thankful for. I am staying right here in Brooklyn this week-end and am looking forward to a quiet holiday with my family and friends. The turkey is defrosting in the refrigerator, the ...

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Das Racist Recession Thanksgiving (video)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Death + Taxes Magazine and Das Racist, with the help of chef Ian Knauer, make a Thanksgiving dinner pulling together ingredients from a Brooklyn bodega and 9...

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Nets Have Dug a Big Hole, but Their Foundation Is in Place

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:50:56 +0000

The Nets have lost their first 14 games in a start that is threatening to make their season irrelevant before the calendar turns to 2010. The long-term future, however, looks a lot brighter. The final challenge to their plans to build an arena in Brooklyn was denied Tuesday, increasing the ...

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Nets Have Dug a Big Hole, but Their Foundation Is in Place

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:44:00 +0000

The New York Times by Jonathan Abrams The Nets have lost their first 14 games in a start that is threatening to make their season irrelevant before the calendar turns to 2010. The long-term future, however, looks a lot brighter. The final challenge to their plans to build an ...

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Scenes from SCORE

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:32:00 +0000

Helping charitable organizations like City Harvest or Rock and Wrap It Up while also helping yourself to a gently used pair of jeans or a sweet amplifier sounds like a paradox. It wasn’t to the more than one thousand Brooklynites who ravaged the makeshift shelving for clothing, books, and ...

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Autistic Brooklyn man, wrongly imprisoned after coerced slay confession, gets $340G settlement

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:31:34 +0000

The city will pay $340,000 to an autistic Brooklyn man railroaded by NYPD detectives into falsely confessing to murdering his sister. Ozem Goldwire spent more than a year in prison for the January 2006 slaying of his sister, Sherika, before he was exonerated by prosecutors in the Brooklyn ...

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Curtain Up on Broadway Triangle

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

During the two-year battle over the development of the Broadway Triangle, several North Brooklyn community groups have voiced concern over their lack of involvement in the planning process.As the fight moves to the City Council, the debate is shiftin...

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Statement by NYS Senator Velmanette Montgomery on Eminent Domain Ruling

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:47:44 +0000

Todays Court of Appeals decision is a defeat for every property owner in the great State of New York. In finding against the plaintiffs in this landmark case, where citizens bravely persevered in the face of a state agency determined to seize their land for a misbegotten private developmentthe ...

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Brooklyn couple wants Gov. Paterson to stop Ratner's eminent domain win

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:57:00 +0000

For the past six years, a perfectly habitable eight-story condo building has stood virtually empty on Pacific St. in Brooklyn 's Prospect Heights . Only one of the building's 31 apartments has been occupied in that time - this in a city with thousands of homeless people and tens of thousands of ...

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Aww, poor mafia

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:59:31 +0000

Even mobsters are feeling the squeeze in today's tough economy. A bizarrely sympathetic judge took pity on a reputed Colombo family associate yesterday, saying he can keep his job at the trendy Lucali pizzeria in Carroll Gardens -- despite prosecu...

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Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn Clears Final Major Hurdle

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:26:30 +0000

Bruce C. Ratner at the site of the Atlantic Yards project in 2008.

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Governor Paterson's Own New London

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:20:46 +0000

Governor Paterson's Brooklyn legacy, should he allow eminent domain for Atlantic Yards to go forward...

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ABOUT NEW YORK; Trying to Give Police the Right Answer, Even When It's Wrong

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:27 +0000

Photo: Ozem Goldwire, at his Brooklyn home, holding a photograph of his sister, Shereika, who was killed in 2006. He made a false confession to the killing and spent a year in jail. (Photo by Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)

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New York: Brooklyn: Man Charged With Strangling His Sister

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:27 +0000

An autopsy determined that a woman found dead in her apartment at 72 Rockaway Avenue on Monday was strangled, and her brother was arrested in the killing on Tuesday, the police said yesterday. They said Ozem Goldwire, 27, killed his sister, Sherika Goldwire, 28, in a fight over the volume of ...

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YouTube: From the DDDB press conference - A vow to continue fighting (video)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:33:00 +0000

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Shop Brooklyn for the holidays

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:30:00 +0000

It may be “Black Friday” to everyone else, but to borough residents, tomorrow it will be “Brooklyn Friday.” So hopes Borough President Marty Markowitz as he launches his “ Shop Brooklyn ” initiative for the 2009 holidays. “Shop Brooklyn” is designed as an awareness campaign that will highlight ...

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