1 graffiti cleanup request

• 105 Hewes St, Brooklyn Graffiti reported at 105 Hewes St, Brooklyn

  Waiver authorizing cleanup received on July 3, 2008.

1 news article

• Bedford-Stuyvesant Fire victim died trying to save son

  "[My father] was like a guardian angel," said the younger Brown, who returned to the charred Bedford-Stuyvesant building yesterday.

  Published by New York Daily News on July 24, 2008.

7 news articles

• Bedford-Stuyvesant State Provides $357M for Affordable Builds

  Also in Manhattan, AHC approved: a $400,000 grant to Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City to finance home improvements for 85 housing units in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island; a $1.58-million grant to the Housing Partnership Development to finance 21 new two-family homes in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Ocean Hill/Brownsville sections of Brooklyn;

  Published by GlobeSt on July 23, 2008.

• Bedford-Stuyvesant Police Shoot Man With Long Arrest History

  Police say Ahmad Evans, 34, ran away Monday night when officers responded to a 911 call from a 36-year-old woman in Bedford-Stuyvesant who holds a court order against him that he had violated in the past.

  Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.

• Bedford-Stuyvesant 1 Dead In Brooklyn Fire, Neighbor Rescues 2 Others

  The good Samaritan, Chakka Bess, climbed a fire escape and smashed a window to rescue a woman and a 15-year-old from the Bedford-Stuyvesant building.

  Published by WNBC on July 23, 2008.

• Bedford-Stuyvesant Despite Heroic Rescue, NYC Fire Turns Fatal

  The good Samaritan, Chakka Bess, climbed a fire escape and smashed a window to rescue a woman and a 15-year-old from the Bedford-Stuyvesant building.

  Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 23, 2008.

• Williamsburg Second man in as many weeks is gunned down

  The latest incident comes only eight days after Richard Duran, 22, was murdered by suspected gang members at the corner of Roebling Street and Broadway after an altercation that started at Williamsburg’s famed “Festa del Giglio.”

  Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

• Bedford-Stuyvesant NYC fire kills one; neighbor rescues others

  The good Samaritan, Chakka Bess, climbed a fire escape and smashed a window to rescue a woman and a 15-year-old from the Bedford-Stuyvesant building.

  Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 23, 2008.

• Bedford-Stuyvesant Hero saves pair from Brooklyn blaze

  Chaka Bess, 32, arrived home at his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building about 7:55 p.m. to see flames shooting from a third-floor window.

  Published by New York Daily News on July 23, 2008.

1 news article

• Bedford-Stuyvesant Man Injured In Police Shooting

  Police in Brooklyn shot and injured a man early Tuesday after being told he had a gun. The incident happened in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

  Published by WNBC on July 22, 2008.

1 news article

• Williamsburg Brooklyn, The Borough: The New Williamsburg!

  "Atlantic City is the new Williamsburg," former Siberia bar owner and sometimes Fox contributor Tracy Westmoreland told me as the wind whipped through his long goatee at a rest stop somewhere in New Jersey.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 21, 2008.

1 news article

• Williamsburg Air guitar hero loses toe - literally

  Taryn Kapronica - who goes by the stage name Bettie B. Goode - slammed into a metal chair 15 feet above a confused Williamsburg audience just seconds into her July 9 performance of Scorpion's "Rock You Like a Hurricane."

  Published by New York Daily News on July 18, 2008.

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