Brooklyn Ron Writes of Growing Up in Bed-Stuy
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--Hasidic Jewish group in Crown Heights allegedly assaults son of Black city cop. (read)
--Population of Catholics in Brooklyn has dropped over decade. (read)
--Brownsville has highest infant mortality rates in the city. (read)
--Downtown development is leading to widespread evictions of struggling minority businesses, The Eagle reports. (read)
--This place is hot! More and more parents are naming their children "Brooklyn." (read)
'Brother, I'm Dying'
Edwidge Danticat's book tells, in a painfully personal way, the blood- and tear-laced story of the U.S. relationship with Haiti. (read)
Judge Margarita Lopez Torres Featured as Challenger of Brooklyn's Judicial System
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Fulton Street is named after Robert Fulton (born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania on November 14, 1765; died February 24, 1815), who was a U.S. engineer and inventor widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steam-powered steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship, and in 1800 was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design Nautilus, which was the first practical submarine in history.
Spike says Brooklyn, not Harlem, is the capital of Black America (read)
Taking the Black out of Fort Greene
Selma Jackson is closing down her business 'incubator' because of soaring rents. Black artists and entrepreneurs are being forced out of a community that spawned Richard Wright, Spike Lee and other African Americans of great note. (read)
BAMboozled
The new BAM cultural district claims three young black entrepreneurs as its first victims. (read)
R.I.P.
Bed-Stuy leads New York in killings by police. Some things never change, say articles in The Indypendent and Color Lines.
NYCampaigns '08
-- See latest poll results showing Obama gaining in key states.
-- Quinnipiac press release saying 'Obama Closes on Clinton in New York.'
-- Obama-Clinton 'Showdown in Brooklyn.'
-- Koch on Giuliani in Florida: 'The Beast is Dead.'
-- Rudy Defeat in Fla. is 'The End of 9/11 Politics.'
-- Edwards drops out.
Bob Herbert column in New York Times says DA Hynes and Police Commissioner Kelly have been treating Bushwick youngsters "like dirt." (read)
