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Downtown archive

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008

Heights bombmaker is tied to rash of swastika graffiti

Downtown: Cops managed to solve two crimes in one last week, when a man who turned his Brooklyn Heights apartment into a bomb-making factory later confessed to scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti throughout the neighborhood in a crime that had been unsolved since September. Comment.

Horrifying attack on Bklyn Bridge bicyclist

Downtown: A bicyclist was robbed and pummeled by a gang of teenagers on the Brooklyn Bridge footpath on Jan. 16. Plus all the other crime from Brooklyn Heights, Downtown and DUMBO’s 84th Precinct. Comments (1).

Little theater to expand

Downtown: The Brooklyn Heights Cinema, which is believed to be the last twin moviehouse in Brooklyn, will soon add two screens. Comment.

Downtown’s kaffee klatsch

Downtown: A new bookstore and café opened last week on the City Tech campus Downtown, but the public is going to have to wait at least a week more before they can partake of the gourmet coffee and organic snacks. Comment.

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