03 January 2012
Astoria illegal immigrant’s family struggled while he was detained BY CORY BENNETT & REBECCA ELLIS Astoria resident Taimur Hussain was released last week after being held in immigration detention for over nine months. But while a lawyer from the Forest Hills firm that represented him, Naresh Gehi, said his family was “overjoyed” to hear the [...]
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14 December 2011
BY CHARLEY STEWARD Nov. 3 – Police have arrested a Brooklyn man in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old high school student after sources say he confessed. Rashad Salaam, 22, who was charged with murder Wednesday, was an online acquaintance of Kyanna Thomas, an 11th grade student from Queens who attended Brooklyn Latin High School. [...]
Posted in Boroughs, Brooklyn, Crime, Uncategorized0 Comments
14 December 2011
BY CHARLEY STEWARD Nov. 23 – Students and others rallied Monday to protest against the possible shutdown of Cypress Hills Collegiate Prep High School, one of 20 Brooklyn schools on a preliminary list of closures issued by the New York City Department of Education. Nearly 30 students, parents, teachers and supporters of the school, which [...]
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14 December 2011
BY REBECCA ELLIS This holiday season, some small Inwood businesses are finding creative ways to attract last-minute local shoppers to revive sales, and help them weather the storm in a tough economy. And where chanting is usually heard, in a warm local yoga studio, there is instead the sound of sales. Bread and Yoga at [...]
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12 December 2011
BY REBECCA ELLIS On a recent Sunday small crowd stood on the northeast corner of Sonny Abubadika Carson Park where Linden Boulevard meets Vermont Avenue to hear former Black Panther, Councilman Charles Barron, announce that he’s running against incumbent Congressman Ed Towns. Read more
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09 December 2011
BY MARC WEINREICH A mother and her husband in Harlem have been sleeping on a mattress in the living room of their two-bedroom apartment every night for the past few years. They don’t want their two children to struggle just because their parents are having a hard time financially. “A brother and [...]
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07 December 2011
BY ALISON DENISCO Novelty cigarette lighters in the shape of miniature guitars, guns, ducks, and dogs are meant for adults. But to a child, they appear to be toys—and create fire with the push of a button. A bill that would ban novelty lighters has been introduced in the New York State Assembly, and is [...]
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05 December 2011
BY CURTIS SKINNER — Tuesday night’s public hearing on the co-location of a new charter school to a building already home to three other public schools was reminiscent of a high school pep rally against crosstown rivals. Success Academy Cobble Hill—the latest possible addition to City Councilwoman turned New York City education magnate Eva Moskowitz’s [...]
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05 December 2011
BY CURTIS SKINNER — After years of planning and months of delay, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway triple cantilever and Gowanus Expressway reconstruction projects—vital to maintaining the structural integrity of one of the most important highways in New York City—were canceled. Both terminations were logged in the federal register on Tuesday November29 and were attributed to a [...]
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05 December 2011
VANDANA SEBASTIAN A call for a bill that will make birth records available to adopted people and their birth parents was supported by adoption rights activists, families with adopted children and mothers who had to give up children for adoption at a gathering at the New York City Hall steps last month. The bill, sponsored [...]
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