Questions Linger After Elevator Death
Popular indie drummer Jerry Fuchs died after a harrowing fall down an elevator shaft early Sunday morning at a party in Williamsburg. Almost a week later, it is still unclear why no one was operating it.
Deal Has Coney Island Merchants Smiling
Christopher Alessi on a new plan to develop Coney Island—one that has local merchants and residents hopeful for the future.
Fashion-Forward Vets March Proud
Navy veterans Milaina Jacques and Shawna Lee knew they wanted to come to the annual Veterans Day Parade along Fifth Avenue — the only question was, what would they wear?
Brooklynites Unsurprised By Gay Marriage Vote Delay
By Leah Finnegan Had the New York Senate passed a landmark bill to allow same-sex marriage Tuesday, Brooklyn couple Mark Nayden and Richard Kennedy might have finally made plans to legalize their union. Instead, the bill was shelved and the partners, together for 19 years, will have to wait - not that they were not [...]
A regal life for Brooklyn’s homeless
13 November 2009
Once a prison, now a shelter to 350 of New York's homeless, the Bedford Atlantic Armory in Crown Heights proves that not every man's home is his castle. Nathania Zevi takes us on a tour of the grounds, with two of its more sardonic residents.
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Push
12 November 2009
It’s 4 pm on the last warm Sunday of the calendar year and the handball courts in Sunset Park are packed. Stefanos Chen brings us one player's last desperate minutes to find a pickup game before dark.
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Family Court
11 November 2009
By Nathania Zevi The fifth floor of the Brooklyn Family Court looks like a soccer field before the game begins. Two teams confront each other. On one side of the room women sit together, chatting and cuddling their tired kids. The opposite side is filled with men lying on their backs and yawning. Their faces show [...]
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Photo for 11/11/09: Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant
11 November 2009
Autumn is in full swing and the leaves are changing on every corner. Here is a glance of what autumn looks like on Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Photo for 11/10/09: Sheepshead Bay Street after Cleaning Day
10 November 2009
“It’s quite apparent that no street cleaning truck came by during the designated hours, because the leaves from the day before are still there,” says Ray Johnson [Sheepsheadbites.com]
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The Climbers
10 November 2009
By Rob Anderson “I’m not crazy,” the woman says in a thick Brooklyn accent. “I am not going up there.” She is speaking to the bottom half of a man-her husband, presumably-who has climbed up a perilous-looking, retractable metal ladder into a hole carved out of the ceiling in apartment 4D. “I don’t know what [...]
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