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328 Berry St.
Calendar: August 21 - August 28
328 Berry St., Williamsburg. (917) 570-1476 or www.amrichard fineart.com.
Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 21, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Day after fatal fall, lift finally gets fixed
The elevator 5-year-old Jacob Neuman was riding with his older brother got stuck between floors Tuesday - a common occurrence, according to neighbors at the Taylor Wythe Houses in Williamsburg. Jacob crawled out but then lost his footing and plunged 10 stories into the open shaft.
Published by New York Daily News on August 21, 2008.
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328 Berry St.
Calendar: August 21 - August 28
328 Berry St., Williamsburg. (917) 570-1476 or www.amrichard fineart.com.
Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.
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70 Clymer Street
DA to investigate elevator shaft death
The city Housing Authority said in a statement that they, as well as other city agencies, were looking into the death. The building, 70 Clymer Street, is part of the Housing Authority's Taylor-Wythe apartment complex
Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 20, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Elevator that claimed boy's life had history of failures
A hysterical Israel Neuman later told police "that he couldn't grab his brother," said Pessie Gelb, a neighbor of the Neuman family on Clymer St. in Williamsburg.
Published by New York Daily News on August 20, 2008.
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70 Clymer St.
Boy Who Fell Down Elevator Shaft Mourned
...mourning the 5-year-old boy who fell down a housing-project elevator shaft at 70 Clymer St. just before 9 a.m. The trouble started when an elevator became stuck between two...
Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.
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70 Clymer Street
Boy Falls To Death Down Elevator Shaft In Brooklyn
The incident occurred at 70 Clymer Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn just before 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 19, 2008.
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70 Clymer Street
Boy Falls To Death Down Elevator Shaft In Brooklyn
The incident occurred at 70 Clymer Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn just before 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 19, 2008.
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70 Clymer Street
Child dies after elevater shaft fall
Eyewitness News is told the five-year-old boy fell 10 stories down the shaft at 70 Clymer Street just before 9 a.m.
Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 19, 2008.
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70 Clymer St.
5-year-old Brooklyn boy dead in elevator shaft plunge
The tragedy occurred before 9 a.m., when the boy's broken body was discovered in the bottom of the shaft. Police said the boy lived on the 11th floor of the apartment building at 70 Clymer St. in the Williamsburg section.
Published by New York Daily News on August 19, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Artists Find a Place in the Sunset Park
Ofer Cohen, a commercial broker in the area, says that since there are still many businesses in Sunset Park’s industrial section, the neighborhood is unlikely to transform the way Dumbo and Williamsburg did.
Published by The New York Observer on August 18, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn Couple Charged In Toddler's Death
Police found 3-year-old Ginelis Jimenez unconscious inside their home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. She was pronounced dead a short time later.
Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 15, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
Suspect surrenders in cabbie shooting
Ivana Pittman, 18, walked into Bedford-Stuyvesant's 79th Precinct stationhouse around 9:45 a.m., a week after the shooting of cabbie Enois Malbranche, 62, blinding him in the right eye.
Published by New York Daily News on August 15, 2008.
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Hunters Point
A Battle for the Future of Willets Point
A hearing by the City Planning Commission on Wednesday combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.
Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.
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Williamsburg Bridge
When the Lights Went Out, 2003
After the lights went out, she walked across the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn with thousands of others heading home. “I never went back to work,” she said. “I sold my house and moved to Florida.”
Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
Third teenager arrested in cabbie shooting
Pittman is the third young woman to be charged in the Aug. 7 shooting of 62-year-old cabbie Enois Malbranche in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 14, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
Third suspect tells News of cabbie shoot
Authorities want to charge her in the Aug. 7 shooting of 62-year-old cabbie Enois Malbranche in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, LaFaurie said.
Published by New York Daily News on August 14, 2008.
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Hunters Point
A Confrontation Over the Future of Willets Point
The hearing combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.
Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Georgians In America Watch The Violence Back Home
A room on the third floor of a Roman Catholic school in Brooklyn's Williamsburg serves as the chapel of the church on most Sundays.In the meantime, Georgians gather at places like the Tbilisi restaurant -- including ethnic Russians -- to talk and eat together, make calls, and share hopes for a quick end to the conflict.Last weekend, there was no entertainment at Tbilisi.
Published by WNBC on August 13, 2008.
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Bedford
NYPD Hunt 'Dollar Store' Robbers
The robberies occur in three neighborhoods -- Bedford-Stuvyesant, Crown Heights and Bushwick.
Published by WNBC on August 13, 2008.
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Bridge Urban Winery
Staking Out Brooklyn Turf for a Winery
And back in Brooklyn, the Tasting Room at Williamsburg's Bridge Urban Winery sells wines made from its own vineyard in Long Island, with a borough-based, small-scale winery in the works. Another urban winery, as yet unnamed, is now being fitted out in Red Hook — a project of Mark Snyder, a Park Slope-based wine distributor, and a pair of cult Napa Valley winemakers, Abe Schoener and Robert Foley.
Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Grief for Council pols over car perks
"It's very useful for doing the job," said Yassky. "Our district stretches from Williamsburg to Park Slope. We are out in the field a lot."
Published by New York Daily News on August 13, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Gems of the Ring, Guarded by a Professor in Boxing Gloves
“I think Hank liked the idea that the collection would be coming to Brooklyn,” Professor Cucchiara said, noting that Kaplan was born in Williamsburg. “And it could be that he thought — since I’m both an academician and a boxer — that I would not let him down.”
Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.
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Williamsburg Bridge
Brooklyn is fast becoming an unlikely wine region
Veteran vintners Greg Sandor and Paul Wegimont have opened the Bridge Urban Winery beneath the Williamsburg Bridge, determined to produce their own wines in the once-gritty neighborhood.
Published by New York Daily News on August 12, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
Bed-Stuy sad over Ali's loss
It was a depressing day at the L&H Deli in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where Steve Aziz works. Aziz is a first cousin of Sadam Ali, the boxer from Canarsie who made the U.S. Olympic boxing team to great fanfare but made a quick exit Monday, losing in a first-round bout.
Published by New York Daily News on August 12, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Georgians in America watch the violence back home
Protesters included members of St. Nino's Georgian Orthodox church choir who formed a circle to sing their native songs. A room on the third floor of a Roman Catholic school in Brooklyn's Williamsburg serves as the chapel of the church on most Sundays.
Published by amNY.com on August 12, 2008.
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Williamsburg Bridge
The Shame of Speaker Shelly Silver's Resistance to Seward Park Redevelopment
Just south of Delancey Street on the Lower East Side, near the bustling entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, lies that rarest Manhattan commodity: vacant land.
Published by Village Voice on August 12, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Nothing finer than improving this diner
Once opened, it will join Diner, in Williamsburg hipster magnet, as refurbished, retro diners.
Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 12, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Comrade Bloomberg?
To date, that agenda has focused around rezonings of areas such as Manhattan’s far West Side, Jamaica and the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront, where the city allows private landowners to develop thousands of housing units and millions of feet of office space.
Published by The New York Observer on August 12, 2008.
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349 Metropolitan Avenue
Checking In On 349 Metropolitan Avenue
Sales at 349 Metropolitan Avenue, aka The Metropolitan appear to be going pretty well. The seven-story development has 35...
Published by Brownstoner on August 12, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
Civil Rights Lawyer Sues City Over Handcuffing of Girl, 10
After New York City police officers allegedly handcuffed a 10-year-old girl for being noisy and disruptive on a school bus, a prominent civil rights lawyer is bringing a lawsuit challenging the use of handcuffs on minors.
Published by New York Sun on August 8, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
FDNY rescues man who fell through subway grate
A Fire Department spokesman says the man was badly bruised and suffered fractures in the accident Friday morning in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Published by amNY.com on August 8, 2008.
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Queens
Congressional Candidate Barred From Ballot
The New York State Board of Elections has ruled that Jun Policarpio, a Queens congressional candidate accused of forging petition signatures, will not be allowed on the Republican ballot.
Published by New York Sun on August 8, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
Firefighters rescue man who falls through sidewalk subway grate
A Fire Department spokesman says the man was badly bruised and suffered fractures in the accident Friday morning in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Published by SI Live on August 8, 2008.
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Williamsburg Bridge
Jazz society
In another shot, Mecca is pictured with pianist Brian Jackson and producer Ommas by the Williamsburg Bridge.
Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 8, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Trio with ‘Brio’
This summer, Sunset Park–based band The Mumbles are playing everywhere from Coney Island to Williamsburg in support of their new EP, “Once EPonymous.”
Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 8, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Galapagos revealed
“We have the same occupancy as Williamsburg, but we’re twice the size,” said Elmes. “That’s a benefit of moving here.”
Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 8, 2008.
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Williamsburg
A Neighborhood Fixer Wants ‘to Do It Elected’
Then Mr. Abraham worked the room, saying hello to Rob Ryan, an aide to John A. Catsimatidis, the supermarket magnate, who wants to be mayor, and to Councilman Eric N. Gioia, who is working with Mr. Abraham to try and clean up an old Con Edison plant in Williamsburg.
Published by New York Times on August 8, 2008.
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Williamsburg
A Neighborhood Fixer Wants ‘to Do It Elected’
He is trying to replace David Yassky in District 33, which includes parts of Williamsburg, where Mr. Abraham lives, along with Greenpoint, Park Slope, Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights. If elected, Mr. Abraham would be the first Hasidic member of the City Council.
Published by New York Times on August 8, 2008.
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Williamsburg
A Neighborhood Fixer Wants ‘to Do It Elected’
He is known mostly as a spokesman for Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg, and he calls himself a tenant organizer, though he sometimes speaks on behalf of landlords, too. He is often quoted in stories about Yankel Rosenbaum, the Jewish scholar who was killed in the Crown Heights rioting in 1991. (Mr. Abraham is a friend of the Rosenbaum family.)
Published by New York Times on August 8, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
FDNY rescues man who fell through subway grate
Firefighters say they rescued a man who plunged 8 feet after falling through a sidewalk subway grate in Brooklyn.
Published by New York Daily News on August 8, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
FDNY Rescue Man Who Fell Through Subway Grate
A Fire Department spokesman said the man was badly bruised and suffered fractures in the accident Friday morning in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Published by WNBC on August 8, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
Man Falls Through Subway Grating In Brooklyn
A Bedford-Stuyvesant man was injured after a freak fall through a sidewalk subway grating, and residents are wondering how this frightening incident could have happened again.
Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 8, 2008.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
Man Rescued, Hospitalized After Subway Grate Fall
A Fire Department spokesman says the man was badly bruised and suffered fractures in the accident Friday morning in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 8, 2008.
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328 Berry St.
Calendar: August 7th â August 14th
A.M. Richard Fine Art: 328 Berry St., Williamsburg. (917) 570-1476 or www.amrichard fineart.com.
Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 8, 2008.
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Bedford
New York's Foreclosure Crescent
Of the 15 ZIP codes with the most foreclosures, nine are in Queens and three are in Brooklyn, basically following a crescent-shaped corridor running roughly along the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Ocean Hill and Flatbush. The last three of the top 15 are in Staten Island.
Published by The New York Observer on August 7, 2008.
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390 Kent Avenue
New Park Plans for Williamsburg?
...News reported yesterday that community board members and councilmembers are hoping the city-owned lot, 390 Kent Avenue, will become parklandc;urrently a maintenance shop and parking lot sit there. The nearby Domino...
Published by Brownstoner on August 6, 2008.
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Newtown Creek
Barges Would Be Identified Under New Rules
Residents and environmental activists in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn have also complained that the company abandoned a deteriorating barge in Newtown Creek.
Published by New York Sun on August 5, 2008.
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Sunnyside
A happy ending..and a policy change
The woman with a mental acuity roughly equivalent to a second-grader left her Sunnyside residence run by a Very Special Place last Tuesday to take a public bus to her Travis day program.
Published by SI Live on August 4, 2008.
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Williamsburg
Suspect officer bugged - by his own boss
Sgt. Robert Kelly, the former head of the 90th Precinct detective squad in Williamsburg, became an undercover in his own office at the direction of the FBI agents who were investigating Detective Luis Batista for alleged illicit ties to a violent drug gang.
Published by New York Daily News on August 4, 2008.