Like any three-year-old, Jayla Taylor has a fondness for candy. But an evening trip to fulfill her craving at a Brooklyn candy store a week ago nearly ended her life. Continue reading
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Illegal dumping and litter mar historic Bedford-Stuyvesant
On radiant, sunlit afternoons, Wilma Atwell – or “Bee,” as she’s known in her neighborhood – likes to go out in front of her colonial-style house and water her garden.
“It’s so nice here,” she said. “I’ve been living here 21, 22 years. I love it.”
Eleven blocks west and 14 blocks north of Atwell’s “farm house,” as she likes to call it, a man dressed head-to-toe in black rifles through a plastic trash bag, four feet long and stuffed with the castoffs of the college students that live in an adjacent building. Continue reading
‘One-in-a-trillion’ odds for suspect in Brooklyn murder
New York City police officer Ruslan Matdiip couldn’t remember much of anything about what he did on Nov. 28, 2005.
On that day – the same day that fellow officer Dillon Stewart was gunned down on the job for making a routine stop in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn — Matdiip knew he had looked for evidence at the scene of the crime. He was sure that he followed department procedure, and he knew that eventually, a spent Luger nine-millimeter shell casing was found at the scene, three short blocks away from Prospect Park. Continue reading
With a full-service tearoom, a new code of conduct in Bedford-Stuyvesant
Kate Cranston and Emily Post would be pleased.
A centuries-old culture is returning to Brooklyn, and it’s bringing its pinky finger with it. Continue reading
Prisoners need help before and after release, experts say
When a prisoner is released on parole, he could use a little more than a rumpled suit, a couple of bucks and a hardened pack of chewing gum.
Like an apartment. Or a college degree. Or a job.
Or somebody to help him figure out how to get them. Continue reading
In Bed-Stuy, ‘Brew or Die’
It’s a hot summer’s day, and Francine Dixon is sitting outside her Brooklyn café watching customers enter. Among the passersby, a middle-aged woman wearing a plastic hairnet and smeared magenta lipstick walks across Malcolm X Boulevard toward the entrance.
“You see that one right there?” Dixon says, motioning toward the woman. “I’ll bet you a quarter she’s gonna go in and ask for food.” Continue reading
Bed-Stuy residents: U.S. overstaying welcome in Iraq
Two weeks after the coalition death toll in Iraq passed 4,000, and a month after one of the youngest casualties of the Iraq war – an 18-year-old Queens resident — was buried, residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn seem to agree that the U.S. has overstayed its welcome in the Middle East. Continue reading