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Williamsburg–Greenpoint–Bushwick

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Muggings! This train is ‘L’ on riders at Bedford Ave.

By Dana Rubinstein
Williamsburg: A hard week for twenty-something men using the Bedford Avenue L station ended with hard time for one teenager. Comments (2).

What’s wrong with this picture?

By Mike McLaughlin
Beyer Blinder Belle
Williamsburg Waterfront: The city is apparently not sweet on a developer’s plans to build a five-story glass addition atop the landmark Domino Sugar refinery building along the Williamsburg waterfront. Comments (2).

Jaw broken

By Dana Rubinstein
Williamsburg: An assailant broke a pedestrian’s jaw in multiple places on Feb. 24, after a woman started a conversation with another man. Plus all the other crime news from Greenpoint’s 94th Precinct. Comment.

School daze

By Dana Rubinstein
Williamsburg: Two schools were burglarized last week, in incidents that netted criminals thousands of dollars in cash and electronics. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Now leaving Little Poland

By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg: On the shelves of Polish grocery stores in Greenpoint, bottles of Mountain Dew and Diet Coke are beginning to crowd out liters of Zywiec Zdroj and Nateczowianka. Comment.
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