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MIDTOWN – A man walked into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan carrying gasoline and lighter fluid last night. He was apprehended, and it turns out, he taught at Brooklyn College. Marc Lamparello, a 37-year-old from New Jersey, brought inside with him lighter fluids and gas cans at around 7:55
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(Photo by Michael Sandy Claus Sciaraffo)“This is my personal nightmare,” said a straphanger sitting next to me yesterday evening on a Brooklyn-bound F train. He was taking shallow breaths, with beads of sweat dripping down his face. At that point we’d been stuck underground on a sweltering F
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(Courtesy: Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/31694851@N03/2974757320/in/photolist-5wSpHj-j7WVUa-q6odin-j7ZdUh-7PWFEa-jR7C2K-j7WmKp-j7YrtC-KxCzP-j7BPcZ-pCek7k-jhv1C1-js1wst-js2FEx-5d4yxw-kX2Gki-rcUj99-js34RM-js1wgM-s9TPh7-GFA4kf-ovvDBA-qejPWD-prJRk5-pG4FS1-bydHvg-5hrD31-HRkSCr-oC8hXR-brH8NF-dwckHV-snwxXW-svLgGn-pcjatX-jR8Rz2-jRac9m-jR9wyf-8MnMJw-naXpfT-qLrhN3-ouqUEG-5wN3jx-9chSab-gZ4hjb-peRPaN-aDfbsd-h1USWF-oNQ5Yv-jhspGk-55Enee] )Brooklyn has the fastest job growth of any borough in New York
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Falafel Pita Pocket. (Photo via Mimi’s Hummus)Just over a month after opening a location inside the UrbanSpace Vanderbilt food hall [/blog/food/mimis-hummus-is-opening-a-location-in-manhattan] near Grand Central Terminal, Mimi’s Hummus [http://www.mimishummus.com/] has opened their second location in Manhattan and this one will be serving falafel.
Cold War
Source: Official US Navy Imagery via FlickrToday is September 11th, 2013, the twelfth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that horrified the world. On that day, 2,996 people died, and the course of American history was forever altered. Since that fateful day, New Yorkers have lived with the awareness of
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Source: changeschanging / FlickrCity Council candidate Ari Kagan wants to bring back the x29 bus service. The line, which ran from Stillwell Avenue and Surf Avenue to 57th Street and Madison Avenue in Midtown, was eliminated in 2010 in a series of MTA cuts. As we’ve previously reported [/public-hearing-on-mta-cuts-attend-this/], the
"Flameproof"
There are only two participants in a lopsided race to work as Brooklyn borough president in Borough Hall. (Photo by The Nabe)By Linda Villarosa Imagine this lopsided contest: The Brooklyn Nets vs the Brooklyn Technical High School basketball team — the J.V. squad. That’s what the match-up between
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Source: visualnews.com Visual News [http://www.visualnews.com/2012/03/28/stopping-traffic-the-busiest-nyc-subway-stops/] created a cool new graphic of the busiest subway stops in New York. I took a slice of the map to show you our area, which compared to Manhattan [http://www.visualnews.com/2012/03/28/stopping-traffic-the-busiest-nyc-subway-stops/
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Perhaps wishes really do come true. According to Second Avenue Sagas [http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/12/17/r-trains-montague-st-tunnel-expected-back-on-friday/] , the R train will begin service between Brooklyn and Manhattan again starting Friday. This will be the first time the line has operated under the East River since Hurricane Sandy left the
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One of the perqs of following some of our local elected officials on Twitter is occasionally one of them will share something that is really cool and — even better — is not politics-related. That’s what social media-savvy City Councilman Domenic Recchia [https://twitter.com/DomenicRecchia], whose 47th Council District encompasses
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(from wikipedia.org)Four legislators – including representatives of Southwest Brooklyn and Staten Island at the local, state, as well as federal levels – would like to convince Governor Cuomo to make local travel more affordable before expanding the 7 train to New Jersey. State Sen. Diane Savino [/index.php?s=savino]
60th Precinct
Coney Island's safer due to an increase police presence, but what about Brighton? (by Eddie~S via flickr)According to an article published in the Home Reporter, crime is going down in Coney Island. At a Bensonhurst West End Community Council meeting held earlier in the month, Captain