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Kruger pleads guilty, resigns
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State Senator Carl Kruger resigned Tuesday, Dec. 20, just before pleading guilty to four counts of taking bribes from a hospital executive and a lobbyist for favorable treatment by the legislature and state officials.
Kruger, 62, and co-defendant Dr. Michael Turano, 50, accepted nearly half a million dollars… -
Old is new again at Coney
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Coney Island planners, business owners and residents are mulling ways to make Coney Island buildings attract new visitors while maintaining CI’s historic character, popular with traditionalists and loyalists. -
Architects of collapsed condo worked 'on the fringe'
FROM THE DAILY NEWS The architects of a Brighton Beach condo under construction that collapsed on Tuesday, Nov. 8 — killing a worker — have a troubled history of flouting regulations, the Daily News has learned.Leave a Comment! Read more...
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No cement-walk for Coney -- for now
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By JESSIE KISSINGER The iconic Coney Island boardwalk won’t be turned into a cement walk – at least not yet.The Public Design Commission has rejected the city Parks Department’s preliminary proposal to renovate a stretch of the boardwalk between 15th Street and Coney Island Avenue.The proposal was part of the… -
Bay area 99%-ers wonder if Occupy Wall Street will help them
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By JESSIE KISSINGER On a rainy Wednesday in October at 3 in the afternoon, only the die-hard of the Occupy Wall street protestors were out at Zuccotti Park. A shout came from the main tent. A man with glasses yelled, “Mic check!” and the call and response began again. He…
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Rally planned at 'neo-Nazi headquarters'
After three cars were burned and swastikas painted along Ocean Parkway in heavily Jewish Midwood, the Jewish Defense Organization is organizing a rally at what they call a neo-Nazi headquarters at an apartment...
Read More...Midwood residents ask police for help after car-burnings
FROM NY 1 Midwood residents gathered at Congregation Ohel Moshe in Midwood on Monday night, Nov. 14 with questions for the police department on whether they were safe...
Read More...Markowitz: Brooklyn's "heart goes out" to Turkey after earthquake
Borough President Marty Markowitz has issued a statement on the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit eastern Turkey on Sunday, Oct. 23, with the death toll expected to reach 1,000:
Read More...FEMA alters decision; Brooklyn to get aid
After leaving Brooklyn off the list of disaster-area declarations following the ravages of Hurricane Irene -- even though she touched down on Coney Island as a tropical...
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Bay elder killed in hit-and-run
Milton Levine, a 91-year-old Sheepshead Bay resident, died Thursday afternoon, June 16 after he was struck by a gray Nissan Pathfinder turning onto Nostrand Avenue at Avenue Y and then run over by another...
Read More...Graffiti finally removed from OTB building
We don't know whether it was because we reported on the problem, but the serious graffiti that had enveloped the abandoned OTB building on Avenue U at East 29th Street in Marine Park finally has been removed....
Read More...Sheepshead Bay man accused of two-day killing spree
“Rot in Hell!” and “Pig!” onlookers shouted Sunday, Feb. 13 as 23-year-old Maksim Gelman was led from the 61st Precinct house on Coney Island Avenue to his arraignment on a slew of...
Read More...Tenants’ rights advocate Jerry O’Shea dies at 76
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PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK -- Those not counted
There was considerable media build-up leading to, and of course including, the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Seemingly every local and national...
Read More...Wait until you see what our mayor has in store for us!
No one has to be reminded of the horrible winter or the callous neglect by the Bloomberg administration during the first, and worst, of the storms. But in addition to the discomfort and inconvenience...
A 'shonda'
Borough President Marty Markowitz has used a Yiddish term to describe opposition to his proposed massive amphitheater in a residential-area park – “shonda,” a shame. We’d like to use another Yiddish...
Read More...Everything for your computer -- free!
To sum up the rants usually associated with this column; ignorance and greed has contributed to establishing the United States as a corporate empire as quality of life sinks lower and lower, and the Bloomberg...
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THEATER: Say Goodnight Gracie
The Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts presented Say Goodnight Gracie, with Alan Safier as Nathan Birnbaum, better known as the late iconic entertainer George Burns. In the…Leave a Comment! Read more...
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PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK -- Walmart: Save face, live hypocritically
The other day we received a mailing from Walmart, which, as you probably know, is trying to locate an outlet anywhere they can in New York City. On one side…Leave a Comment! Read more...
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PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK -- No Comparison
The hard-earned successes of the protests and movements of the early and mid 20th century have had a disturbing consequence – it seems that every subsequent movement, no matter how…Leave a Comment! Read more...
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PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK -- No comparison
The hard-earned successes of the protests and movements of the early and mid 20th century have had a disturbing consequence – it seems that every subsequent movement, no matter how…6 comments Read more...
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PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK -- A ‘Rosa Parks moment’ it's not
The ban on smoking in any public park or beach in New York City has taken effect, with the inevitable protests from smokers who feel their civil rights are being…5 comments Read more...
