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  • Bedford Meet Your Neighbors: Episode 5

    Welcome back to “Meet Your Neighbors,” a weekly feature on the Bed Stuy blog that serves to make the introductions between you, our readers, and other people who live or work in Bedford Stuyvesant.

    Published by Bed-Stuy Blog on May 20, 2008.

  • Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn Bloggers Unite – Off-Line

    When Petra Symister moved from Chelsea to Bedford-Stuyvesant she lost her sense of community - but blogging cured her loneliness.

    Published by NYCity News Service on May 20, 2008.

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  • Bedford-Stuyvesant BRAVEST SAVES COP

    "His car was pretty crushed. If anyone was in the back seat they would not have survived," 9/11 survivor Philip Scarfi, of Bedford-Stuyvesant's Engine 235, told The Post of the horrific scene at 5:45 a.m. in Plainview.

    Published by New York Post on May 19, 2008.

  • Bedford-Stuyvesant Literacy Partners faces budget shortfall

    In the coming financial year, Literacy Partners had hoped to expand its services in the South Bronx, where the waiting lists are longest, and to establish a new program in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant.

    Published by Crain's New York Business on May 19, 2008.

  • Bedford 5 jurors seated in cop's immigrant slay trial

    Prosecutors say Bubaris, 31, drove Perez to an out-of-the-way area in neighboring Bedford, "inflicted blunt force trauma to Perez's abdomen" and left him to die.

    Published by amNY.com on May 19, 2008.

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  • Williamsburg Brooklyn Navy Yard Gets Makeover

    They found space at the Navy yard after rising rents forced a move from the nearby Williamsburg neighborhood. "The Navy yard is a great resource for networking with other businesses," Kahn said. "I feel like we're in a community here.

    Published by WNBC on May 17, 2008.

  • Bedford-Stuyvesant Train-Hopping Traveler’s Life, Captured on Film

    The Hobo Film Festival presents films documenting the experience of riding the rails. Rcent screenings included one in a Bedford-Stuyvesant storefront.

    Published by New York Times on May 17, 2008.

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn Navy Yard Gets Makeover

    The Pentagon closed the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1966, an obsolete facility awash in history but torpedoed by time.

    Published by WNBC on May 17, 2008.

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  • Bedford-Stuyvesant Big City: A School Succeeds With Extra Study and Little Homework

    A principal at a Bedford-Stuyvesant school employs novel methods to help his students succeed.

    Published by New York Times on May 16, 2008.

  • Williamsburg Answers About Cycling in New York, Part 3

    I’ve read that the Williamsburg Bridge is the city’s most heavily cycled, but its Manhattan side entrance/exit is certainly one of the most dangerous.

    Published by New York Times on May 16, 2008.

  • Bedford-Stuyvesant Water Rates Will Rise 14.5 Percent

    Blogtalk: Furniture Fair, Muji’s opening, a telectroscope, pets and fashion in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the cubicle’s birthday, and CBS devours Chowhound.

    Published by New York Times on May 16, 2008.

  • Bedford-Stuyvesant The View From Brooklyn to London

    Calling all talented felines and canines. Bed-Stuy is hosting a pet talent and fashion show in June.

    Published by New York Times on May 16, 2008.

  • Bedford-Stuyvesant The Week in Comments: ‘An Endless Stream’

    Blogtalk: Furniture Fair, Muji’s opening, a telectroscope, pets and fashion in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the cubicle’s birthday, and CBS devours Chowhound.

    Published by New York Times on May 16, 2008.

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  • Bedford-Stuyvesant Angry mob made me flee

    Cops said Burns slammed into Akeem, the youngest of seven children, near his home and school in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

    Published by New York Daily News on May 15, 2008.

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard Giant "Bladder" Being Installed Underground in Dumbo

    The balloon, with the capacity to hold 2 million gallons, would inflate during heavy rains to prevent sewage overflows into the East River. When the sewage pipe is no longer above capacity, the balloon would deflate and send the nasty oil and poop cocktail along to the Red Hook Wastewater Treatment Plant, which is actually at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

    Published by Brownstoner on May 15, 2008.

  • Clinton Hill Streetlevel: Flowers for Myrtle

    Turns out it is the new Clinton Hill outpost of the Park Slope-based Root Stock and Quade. The storefront has a cool Deco-y tile thing going on, and the interior renovation of the store looks pitch-perfect to us. Anyone been yet?

    Published by Brownstoner on May 15, 2008.

  • Williamsburg The art of the bus stop seat

    Of course, everyone’s a critic. An artist who did a similar public-seating project in Williamsburg praised Mojica and Clapp for “addressing the issue of public seating,” but artist Caroline Woolard said the chairs should be “attached to the ground so they couldn’t be removed so easily.”

    Published by Brooklyn Paper on May 15, 2008.

  • Williamsburg Ferry needs riders

    Mayor Bloomberg announced last week plans to bring new ferries to South Williamsburg in July to shuttle commuters from Schaefer Landing to the Financial District and East 34th Street.

    Published by Brooklyn Paper on May 15, 2008.

  • Williamsburg Brooklyn gets ‘Real’

    “We [do] want to be close to Manhattan,” he said, but rattled off other areas he has explored, including Greenpoint, Williamsburg, DUMBO, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, Red Hook, and Coney Island (so much for “close to Manhattan”).

    Published by Brooklyn Paper on May 15, 2008.

  • Williamsburg Thursday Blogwrap

    Bowling Alone in Williamsburg [The Real Estate]

    Published by Brownstoner on May 15, 2008.

  • Clinton Hill Another Shooting on Grand and Putnam

    If you live in Clinton Hill, you live in the ghetto. I know this awaking will take some time. If you live in Bed Stuy, you live in the ghetto also. Your are suffering from a bad case of Cognitive dissonance!

    Published by Brownstoner on May 15, 2008.