Being single and young in Brooklyn may seem like a dream to a sex starved middle America. Heck, it might seem like a dream to the people actually swimming in the pool. This is because while in many ways awareness of and protection from sexually transmitted diseases has risen over the past few decades, anxiety around [...]
The new Nets home is the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and so it is being uproariously promoted. Nets fans can soon expect to commute there via railway because the parking is going to be minimal. It looks like the MTA has a lot up its sleeve to help out. For starters, the Long Island Railroad [...]
As is often the case when three day weekends occur there is an expected mass exodus from the city and Brooklyn today at 5pm. Folks usually content to spend their weekends kicking around a soccer ball in Macarren Park or brunching in Park Slope are now heading for the country or the Jersey shore for [...]
There have been no new reasons to use the phrase “otter-ly adorable” in the Brooklyn vernacular since 1956. In February however Dixie, the Prospect Park Zoo otter, gave birth to three incredibly cute baby pups. They’ll be going out to meet the public this summer at the Zoo. Otters usually live and breed up north [...]
Three Brooklyn students have placed in the top of the 26th Annual Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition this year. The Award, named after Keats’ award-winning book, The Snowy Day, celebrates young writers and their work. The three Brooklyn students range from junior to senior year in High School. The students share the title with one student [...]
In a story that is barely a story it is being reported that polls of New Yorkers agree, drivers are responsible for most of the cities car accidents. So, that is cleared up. It would seem a no brainer in a pedestrian friendly metropolis like New York as a whole and Brooklyn specifically that the [...]
The New York Islanders have a deal with the NHL. They have to play on Long Island. Fortunately for them, Brooklyn is considered part of the island and therefore is a viable option for their team’s new arena. You see, the Islanders’ current arena is having serious asbestos problems and their lease is up in 2015. With [...]
New York Mayor Michal Bloomberg has re-affirmed his support for marriage equality in a recent speech to North Carolina graduates. Speaking just days after the North Carolina’s state constitutional amendment t0 ban gay marriage (among other non-marriage relationships) he called the move a step backwards in civil rights. Those familiar with Bloomberg know he has [...]
It looks like former State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. will be spending some time behind bars. On Monday, Espada Jr. was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn of four counts of stealing funds from a health care clinic that he operated out of the Bronx. There were four other counts but the judge declared [...]
You remember hearing about the mysterious disappearing manhole covers around the great city of New York? Well it turns out the person responsible was a crackhead from Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. And the reason? To get money to feed his drug habit, further instigating the nickname for Brooklyn, Crooklyn. Apparently Andrew Modica, 46, stole the covers [...]
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