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Theater: Happy birthday, Bill! Comment
On Brownstoner: Will there be a pool on top of the landmarked Dime Savings Bank Downtown?
Is there going to be a pool on top of the landmarked Dime Savings Bank in Downtown Brooklyn? According to a new rendering published this morning in the New York Times, the answer seems to be yes, a new report by our sister publication Brownstoner details. Click to give it a read! Read more…
Canarsie: A plan to make Canarsie streets safer is speeding along. Comment
A woman was found dead in a Cypress Hills hotel Saturday morning. Comment
Cops arrest Williamsburg man suspected of murdering woman with axe
Williamsburg: Police arrested a man they suspect of brutally murdering one woman and seriously injuring another with an axe at his Flushing Avenue apartment in the early hours of April 20. Comment
Man robs two women inside Downtown bank
Downtown: Police are looking for a man they suspect of robbing two women inside a Downtown bank on Fulton Street last week. Comment
Subway heists: Goons target teens in underground crime spree
Crown Heights: Cops are hunting for a pair of young punks wanted for allegedly robbing teenage boys amid a string of subterranean heists in Crown Heights on April 17. Comments (2)
CB2 committee votes in favor of mayor’s borough jails plan
Boerum Hill: Members of Community Board 2’s Land Use Committee voted in favor of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to tear down Atlantic Avenue’s House of Detention to make way for a larger jail in order to close down Rikers Island. Comments (2)
Hundreds of protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge April 19 to demand that Gov. Andrew Cuomo reject a plan to build a massive oil pipeline off the Coney Island coast. Comments (1)
Music: This party is right in the swing of things! Comment
Reader: Yeger controversy about semantics
Speak Out: Councilman Kalman Yeger spoke truth to power, and power in turn spoke its concept of truth to Kalman Yeger. Comments (6)
