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Archive for April, 2010

Former Brooklyn College Student Pleads Guilty for Aiding Terrorists

Although we’re often lighthearted at Brooklyn NY News, serious topics are sometimes more pressing. Today is one of those days. Syed Hashmi, a 30-year-old former Brooklyn College student, pled guilty Tuesday for aiding in the delivery of military supplies to al Qaeda. Hashmi admitted to helping a roommate transport outdoor military gear to the terrorist organization [...]


Will There Be a Brooklyn Walmart?

Could a Brooklyn Walmart survive?


Operation Fairy Dust Comes to Borough Park

Many women make it to 27 without ever setting foot (or hip) inside an Oscar de la Renta dress, but the New York-based Operation Fairy Dust has trimmed that figure by about 10 years.


Brooklyn Subway News: Countdown Clocks!

Whoever said “ignorance is bliss” probably never had to wait for the 2/3 on a daily basis. In New York, said ignorance usually means peering desperately into a dark Subway tunnel and wondering how late for work you’re going to be this time. Which is why we’re excited for the new countdown clocks — those nifty [...]


Williamsburgers Snub Census

As residents all over Brooklyn are laboring to fill out those 10 tedious questions, those in Williamsburg as laboring a little less strenuously. Gawker reports that Williamsburgers have only a 30% return rate for the census, significantly less to 50% return rate in all of NYC. Oh well, at least Williamsburg is pretty, as depicted [...]


Brooklyn: Pretty Darn Liveable

New York Magazine recently published a ranked list of the 50 most liveable neighborhoods in the city, and Brooklyn fared very well — not that we’re surprised. Of the top five neighborhoods, three were in Brooklyn: Park Slope (first place!), Cobble Hill & Boerum Hill, and Greenpoint (#5). What makes a city liveable? NYMag relied [...]



The Great Crown Heights Drug Bust

Harsh toke, dude. Following two months of undercover investigation, NYC police raided six Crown Heights businesses on Tuesday for selling marijuana alongside products such as jerk chicken, t-shirts, and CDs. The offending businesses are all within a ten-block radius – four are on Nostrand Avenue alone – but police say that the drug dealings were [...]


Barneys Co-op Comes to Atlantic Avenue

The already smokin’ Atlantic Avenue shopping stretch in Brooklyn should get even hotter this September, when Barneys Co-op — a division of Barneys New York — opens its doors at this MTA nexus of the universe. What is Barneys Co-op? Barneys.com describes its hipster branch in a strategically typefaced list of four points: It’s the [...]


Brooklyn Cherry Blossoms 2010

Judging by all the sunglasses, shorts, and sandals present along our sidewalks and parks, it seems that Brooklyners have full-on embraced the warm weather. But if you’re looking to celebrate Spring to a higher degree, we recommend taking a trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where 42 species of cherry blossom trees will be blooming [...]


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