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Brooklyn House of Detention Will Reopen Next Week in Boerum Hill
Carroll Gardens Patch
Feb 06As reported early last month, the long-dormant Brooklyn House of Detention occupying one full block on Atlantic Avenue near Smith Street will reopen its doors next week to pre-trial prisoners awaiting court dates in Brooklyn and Staten Island. In a New... »
Giants Fans Pack Modell's Following Super Bowl Win
DNAinfo
Feb 06Giants fans arrived early at the Times Square Modell's to buy championship gear. »
NYC To Celebrate Giants Super Bowl Win With Ticker-Tape Parade
WCBSTV Local Business
Feb 06Crews have already started building the stage for Tuesday's celebration, which includes a ceremony at City Hall where Bloomberg will present the team with a key to the city. »
How to Break Up the Banks
Barron's This Week Magazine
Feb 04A Barron's interview with Roberta Karmel, a former SEC commissioner and current professor at Brooklyn Law School. What's the best way to cope with modern financial giants? »
Occupy Williamsburg riot raps
New York Post
Feb 04They probably don’t feel like partying now. Four Occupy Wall Street protesters were indicted by a grand jury in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday and could face seven years in prison for allegedly breaking into a vacant Williamsburg condo to throw a mas... »
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Open House at the Brooklyn House of Detention
We Heart New York
Feb 05Visiting the Brooklyn House of Detention --- technically known as the Brooklyn Detention Complex and soon to reopen after an eight-and-a-half-year refurbishment --- during yesterday's open house was not exactly a fun weekend outing. The staff could not... »
Applications for 20 MPH Zones Pour in From the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens
Streetsblog New York City
Feb 02The city's first 20 miles per hour slow zone, in the Claremont neighborhood of the Bronx, uses "gateway" treatments to slow drivers entering the zone. Neighborhoods across the city want to be the next to get the new safety treatment. Photo: Noah Kazis ... »
Lilies in the Chapel
The Brooklyner Web and Literary
Feb 01Funereal flowers, fucked up how good you smell like how bad we’ll need to fuck on the way home is my dizziness at the thought of death like cotton in the ears when the lights are out. Mysteries abound, and fuck if their contradictions don’t astound me—... »
Turn missed connections into love connections this V Day
Brokelyn
Feb 01Judge a connection by its cover. Illustration by Sophie Blackall. We’re all well acquainted with Craigslist Missed Connections, but how many of us actually check them? Or expect to see our lost mate in person again? This is especially true on the subwa... »
Canyon
The Brooklyner Web and Literary
Feb 01ed Kipsie and my father knew one another for many years but not well, and Ted’s carrying my father out of the canyon after he broke his foot did not change that. Their wives were friends and the two men hiked together once a month to fulfill what they ... »