As a result of good police work following the knife-slashing and robbery of an East 84th Street resident last week, police from the 69th Precinct were able to trace and arrest the alleged slasher trying to escape aboard a city bus within minutes after the crime. More...
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz kicked off the holiday season on Monday by distributing a thousand turkeys and six tons of trimmings that will provide Thanksgiving meals for needy Brooklynites across the borough. (Left to right): Rheatis Brown, Fulton Mall Improvement Association; BP Mark... More...
The New York City Department of Education announced last week that public school students made impressive gains on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, with particularly significant progress achieved by 4th graders in mathematics compared to their peers in other ... More...
In two separate incidents - five minutes and just a few blocks apart - three thieves in a minivan accosted three young women and robbed them of their pocketbooks at gunpoint, police said. The first of the two robberies occurred at about 11:25 p.m. on Friday, November 23 on Avenue J cl... More...
Question: A Brooklyn city councilman wants to eliminate the city's pigeon population. He plans to begin by fining New Yorkers for feeding pigeons and to create a "pigeon czar" to be held accountable for all pigeon-related complaints. Do you agree or disagree with this proposal? Why? More...
Here he is in one of the first photographs taken shortly after he was born on November 12th. It's Michael Robert, son of Toni Rosa and Jason Blynn and grandson of Catherine and Michael Rosa of Georgetown. Grandma Catherine is the More...
Every once in a while I can't decide on a specific topic for this space. Sometimes there are a bunch of things I want to write about, but not enough to fill an entire column. So, as we officially kick off the holiday season, I'd thought I'd write a potpourri - a horn of plenty of s... More...
How can we NOT be amused - or at least be mused - when we see the antics of our elected representatives…especially lately? Here we have a member of the New York City Council, surely a prestigious position if I ever saw one, who has proposed a ban on feeding pigeons in the city... More...
Many public schools are holding parent-teachers conferences between November 13th and November 19th. During that time, parents will be able to meet with teachers, talk about what their children are learning in school, and see their children's grades. And this year, for the first time, they'... More...
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