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East New York

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz Wants Brownsville to be the Next Tech Mecca

    ​The Brooklyn State of the Borough address is tonight, and Borough President Marty Markowitz is expected to announce a contest to attract tech manufacturers to Brownsville and East New York. Markowitz said he targeted these neighborhoods because of their high unemployment rates and the read ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    The Occupation in East New York, Two Weeks Later

    The Indeypendent​It's been two weeks since hundreds of Occupy Wall Street organizers landed in East New York to reclaim and renovate a vacant house that will eventually become the residence of a homeless mother Tasha Glasgow and her two children. Now, in the wake of OWS's three-month anniver ... More >>

  • News

    December 14, 2011

    Occupy Goes Home

    The movement takes back foreclosed houses after leaving the park

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street Re-Occupies Foreclosed Home in East New York: A Report From the Scene

    Nick Pinto​Occupy Wall Street organizers ushered in a new phase of their movement yesterday when about 400 people participated in a collaborative takeover to re-occupy a vacant foreclosed home in East New York for a homeless family of four. The afternoon's event, part of a collaborative Nati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Ten Great Neighborhood-Specific Brooklyn Rap Anthems

    ​This Saturday, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival will conclude with shows by Brownsville's mighty M.O.P., who will perform their rambunctious brand of rap down under the Brooklyn Bridge, and, er, noted Queens representer Q-Tip. Rappers from Brooklyn have never been shy about proclaiming their her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Jonathan Thomas, 19, Busted in 'Freaky Friday' House Party Shootings in East New York

    Dead: Donzell Rogers​Brooklyn teen Jonathan Thomas has been charged with murder in the "Freaky Friday" house party shootings last weekend in East New York. Thomas, 19, is accused of killing Donzell "Zelly" Rogers, 20, who was apparently just a bystander at the party. Cops have said the Very Crispy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2011

    It's Fathers' Day; Obama and Boehner Golf Together; Four Die in Montauk-Bound Cessna

    via AP​Today is Father's Day! Call your Dad and grill something. Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner had a friendly lil' round of golf yesterday with Joe Biden and Ohio Governor John Kasich, and it fixed America. [The Atlantic Wire / Politico] A Manhattan family died yesterday in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2011

    "Very Crispy Gangsters" Suspected in East New York Shooting

    Donzell Rogers, slain at a "Freaky Friday" party.​The shooting at a house party in Brooklyn Friday night that killed one man and injured eight is suspected to be gang-related. Specifically a gang called the "Very Crispy Gangsters," which is a real name for a real gang. It would be almost funny if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    A New Book on Coke; Women Well Represented at Beards

    ​Cleaners have finally cleared out all the dead-bug-covered rotting food at that closed Popeye's in East New York. [NY Daily News] A new book pays tribute to 125 years of Coca-Cola advertising and celebrates the great equalizing power of the product. [T Magazine] Alan Philips and Jason Apfel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Restaurants to Hike Prices Like Airlines; 10 Best Uptown Restos

    ​The latest survey shows that concerns about weight and weight loss are at an all time low. Not that people aren't fat; they just don't care about it. [WedMD] Some New York City prep schools have professional chefs, call students "clients," feed them locally sourced, grass-fed beef, and host ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    In Cold Blood: Young Guy Shoots Another Young Guy in the Head in East New York

    Suspect in East New York shooting​Cops are looking for this guy (at right, stupidly carrying a gun) as the suspect in a cold-blooded shooting Sunday night, February 20, in front of a deli in East New York, Brooklyn. Dude was shot once in the head and once in the chest, shortly after 11:30 p.m., bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Guy Lands Face-First on Third Rail, Takes 625 Volts to the Head, Survives

    via Daily News​We would not show you this if he didn't live. In two words: Holy crap. A guy was pushed onto the third rail (the electric, terrifying one) in East New York on Monday night. And someone took a picture. Andy Morris, a 44-year-old former construction worker who now lives in a homel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    The Completely Wrong Way to Plead "Not Guilty," Starting With the Word "Balls"

    ​When you get arrested for a crime -- like, say, stealing 750 identities and over $500,000 of cash to be spent on "Tiffany & Co. jewelry, Rolex watches, and luxury goods from Louis Vuitton and Bloomingdale's" -- there is one thing you should never, ever, ever, ever say to cops if you want don' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Murder in East New York: Man Shot in the Head, Dumped in a Shopping Cart

    ​ Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 2:57 p.m. Location: Schenck Avenue and Pitkin Avenue, East New York, Brooklyn. Police in the East New York section of Brooklyn, once the city's murder capital, found a dead body inside a black plastic bag in an abandoned shopping cart. The victim was male, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Few Surprises in Times Unemployment Map (Though Coney Beats Carroll Gardens)

    ​We are grateful for the Times unemployment map, which shows what New York neighborhoods are doing best and worst in these parlous economic times, though most of its findings come as no shock. The big loser is unsurprisingly East New York (also murder rate increase leader) with 3rd-quarter un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Ray Kelly: 2009 May Be New York's Lowest Major-Crime Year Since 1963

    In remarks prepared for today's graduation exercises for NYPD cadets at the Beacon Theater, Commission Ray Kelly announces that he expects 2009's final stats will show not only a decline in major crime (murder, rape, robbery etc) for the 19th straight year, but possibly New York's lowest major crime ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Have You Seen... Pistol-Whipper in Brooklyn Heights

    ​In September a 67-year-old man was getting out of his car on Pierrepont Street near College Place when someone pulled a gun on him, with which he beat the target when he refused to deliver valuables. The perp took off empty-handed in a white car, which the cops found later in East New York. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Bloomberg's Election Night Party -- Actually Fun

    Bloomie knows how to party​It was well past 11:00 p.m., and a couple thousand Bloomberg supporters were still waiting in the Metropolitan Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel for the mayor to show up. They were an enthusiastic group, shouting slogans of "four more years" while noshing on giant soft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Bound Corpse Found in East New York Fire

    ​The Queens fire that killed sexual-harassment plaintiff Bianca Kuros last weekend is no longer considered suspicious. Now FDNY investigators, and the NYPD too, will turn their attention to a new fire, in East New York at 395 Warwick Avenue, in the ruins of which a dead man was found tied up. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Try to Rob Japanther at Your Own Peril

    They might hang out with famous pacifist/anarchists like Penny Rimbaud and pal around with weed-smuggling dragons, but do not try to rob one of these two guys unless you're prepared for a fight. (One might question the wisdom of heading to East New York in the middle of the night looking like you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Two Shot, One Dead, in Brooklyn

    View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009, at 2:16 a.m. LOCATION: 436 Atkins Ave., Brooklyn. The police say two men were shot at 436 Atkins Ave. in the East New York section of Brooklyn early Saturday. One of the victims, a male, 21, was shot in the head and torso, and was declared dead at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Missing Person: Geralene Black, 66

    ​Geralene Black, 66, was last seen at around 7 p.m. on Saturday at Amboy Street near Loft Avenue in East New York. She's in good mental and physical condition but folks are understandably worried. She's 5'5", 180 pounds, light-complected, with brown eyes and black hair, and was wearing a blue ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Loring Avenue Homicide

    View Larger Map DATE: Saturday July 4, 2009, 5:06 a.m. LOCATION: 1306 Loring Avenue, Brooklyn A 23-year-old man was shot and killed outside 1306 Loring Ave. in the East New York section of Brooklyn early July 4. He was declared dead at Brookdale Hospital. No arrests. The victim's name still hasn' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Cops Hand Out Cards with Stop-and-Frisks

    New York cops are accustomed to the stop-and-frisk, a casual maneuver in which they detain a citizen on the street, pat him down, and tell him to getouttahere or arrest him. Now, in a pilot program affecting Harlem, the South Bronx and East New York, they also issue their victims a palm card (in s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2009

    Kids Prank Teachers with Itching Powder, Chaos Ensues

    Putting itching powder on teachers' seats -- it sounds like something out of the Our Gang comedies, or Booth Tarkington's Penrod. Well, things have changed, buddy -- when the Shoe Bomber tried to give himself a hotfoot, we sent him away for life! And when somebody, presumably students, pulled this a ... More >>

  • News

    April 22, 2009

    Letters: April 23 Edition

    Putting itching powder on teachers' seats -- it sounds like something out of the Our Gang comedies, or Booth Tarkington's Penrod. Well, things have changed, buddy -- when the Shoe Bomber tried to give himself a hotfoot, we sent him away for life! And when somebody, presumably students, pulled this a ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2009

    Takeout on Euclid Avenue

    You'd yell, too, if you had to keep scrubbing the blood off the sidewalk in front of your restaurant.

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    For 25 years, May May has been dishing out Chinese food to the people of East New York, charming them with "Shut up" and other witticisms, and occasionally mopping up the blood from shootings on his Euclid Avenue sidewalk. Emily Brady salutes a neighborhood institution. Everyone loves the Yeah Yeah ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    New York Schools Surprisingly Non-Polluted

    For 25 years, May May has been dishing out Chinese food to the people of East New York, charming them with "Shut up" and other witticisms, and occasionally mopping up the blood from shootings on his Euclid Avenue sidewalk. Emily Brady salutes a neighborhood institution. Everyone loves the Yeah Yeah ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2008

    This Land is Your Land? Not in East New York, It's Not

    For 25 years, May May has been dishing out Chinese food to the people of East New York, charming them with "Shut up" and other witticisms, and occasionally mopping up the blood from shootings on his Euclid Avenue sidewalk. Emily Brady salutes a neighborhood institution. Everyone loves the Yeah Yeah ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2008

    Our Man Sietsema and Anatomy Known Only to Veterinarians

    For 25 years, May May has been dishing out Chinese food to the people of East New York, charming them with "Shut up" and other witticisms, and occasionally mopping up the blood from shootings on his Euclid Avenue sidewalk. Emily Brady salutes a neighborhood institution. Everyone loves the Yeah Yeah ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2006

    No More Bush Beat

    For 25 years, May May has been dishing out Chinese food to the people of East New York, charming them with "Shut up" and other witticisms, and occasionally mopping up the blood from shootings on his Euclid Avenue sidewalk. Emily Brady salutes a neighborhood institution. Everyone loves the Yeah Yeah ... More >>

  • News

    January 10, 2006

    Mapping Rape

    In the fight against rape, stats are only half of the story

  • NYC Life

    December 20, 2005

    The Scene in Park Slope

    Your Barista on Strike Day? Pregnant and walked almost two hours from East New York

  • NYC Life

    April 5, 2005

    Close-Up on Starrett City, Brooklyn

    Your Barista on Strike Day? Pregnant and walked almost two hours from East New York

  • News

    November 9, 2004

    Million-Dollar Blocks

    The neighborhood costs of America's prison boom

  • News

    August 24, 2004

    New Yorkers to Bush: Listen Up!

    You're talking to the president. What would you tell him?

  • News

    November 25, 2003

    Double Dutch in a War Zone

    On Ghetto Streets, It's Bloodshed and Tears All Over Again

  • Books

    August 19, 2003

    Apartheid, American-Style?

    A Longtime City Planner Looks at East New York's Decline—and Possible Resurgence

  • News

    May 13, 2003

    Afrofuturistic

    Poet Tracie Morris Looks Ahead to the Past

  • News

    March 11, 2003

    Empty Promises

    Housing Activists Say the City Wastes Its Vacant Lots

  • News

    July 16, 2002

    From the Cradle to the Street

    Girls as Young As 11 Are Selling Themselves in New York. Stopping Them May Be Difficult, But Helping Them is Almost Impossible.

  • News

    June 4, 2002

    Even Cowboys Get the Blues

    Developers to Evict Horses From East New York Stables

  • News

    July 10, 2001

    Private Pandemonium

    As Clubs Flounder, Clandestine House Parties Flourish

  • NYC Life

    November 21, 2000

    Three-Bedroom Apartment in Two-Family Brick House

    As Clubs Flounder, Clandestine House Parties Flourish

  • NYC Life

    July 13, 1999

    Summer of Cinema

    Vulgar Variety

  • Dining

    February 16, 1999

    Royal Road

    Vulgar Variety

  • NYC Life

    February 16, 1999

    Teach the Children Well

    Sex Ed

  • News

    February 2, 1999

    Wooten for the Wrong Team

    Councilmember quashes hopes for housing

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