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The National Park Service just turned 100. We visited one of its filthiest, most forgotten sites
Dead Horse Bay, the National Park Service site where the waves clink with broken glass, is a reminder of New York City's brutal past.
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America’s First Medal at the Nazi Olympics Was For…Town Planning
Urban planning was once considered an Olympic sport, and Brooklyn’s Marine Park won a medal. By Jack Goodman.
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An architect turned evil and became the greatest bank robber in history
It’s a cliche of heist movies — that moment when the criminal mastermind runs through his brilliant plan with blueprints and models. Those scenes all owe a debt to George Leslie, one of the greatest burglars in American history. By Geoff Manaugh. (April 10, 2016)
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60,000 Fewer Democrats in Brooklyn and No Clear Reason Why
As candidates lavish love on Brooklyn, a WNYC analysis of voter enrollment statistics found active registered Democrats dropped by 7 percent there — the largest decline statewide.
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Robbers drill hole through Borough Park HSBC Bank ceiling, steals $280K
Police are trying to figure out how more than $280,000 was stolen from a Brooklyn bank over the weekend in a burglary that could have been out of a movie. When employees at the HSBC Bank on 13th Avenue in Borough Park opened for business Monday morning, they found a large hole in the ceiling over a vault. Authorities are trying to figure out how the culprits managed to break in without being caught on surveillance camera. Police say more than $280,000 was stolen...
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Inside Williamsburg, Brooklyn's Hidden Time Capsule: Kings County Savings Bank
I was finally about to enter the bank. Nii unlocked a plain white door at the end of a dilapidated hallway, and I followed her through the doorway and back in time. We walked though what looked like a manager's office, with oil paintings and wingback sofas, and into the cavernous banking hall.
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How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes
The charity paid millions in federal stimulus funds to developers shortly after longtime tenants were pushed out. “We are spending federal money to throw low-income New Yorkers out of buildings,” wrote a Habitat whistleblower. By Marcelo Rochabrun.
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Raunchy, Raucous Coney Island
Perhaps for Freud, Coney Island was America—a realm where fantasy was made material and the pleasure principle ruled. So it is with the bountiful exhibition “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008,” at the Brooklyn Museum through March 13. By J. Hoberman.
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Why There’s No Such Thing As A Brooklyn Accent
The New York accent (also found in New Jersey) is one of the most linguistically strange speech patterns in the country.
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When George Plimpton Met the Best Bartender in Brooklyn
The only other person that I had known who possessed a similar charisma to Sunny Balzano’s was my first employer in New York: George Plimpton. Like Sunny, he both stood a head taller than most people and had such a distinctive bearing and manner that in a crowd, one’s eyes would fall on him first and naturally… By Tim Sultan.
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The Way Forward for Hipster Food
It’s time for the Mast Brothers chocolate-makers—and the rest of the artisanal movement—to acknowledge the fakery inherent in their pre-industrial aesthetic. **in case of monthly article limit, open in incognito/private mode**
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Raccoons Invade Brooklyn
City law requires any of the animals that are captured to be euthanized in a humane fashion, but many exterminators and homeowners aren’t doing it. By Annie Correal.
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The Totally Insane Dyker Heights Christmas Decorations
Behold, the high wattage Christmas lights of Dyker Heights.
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Ratatat - Wildcat
From the album 'Classics' (2006)
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Ratatat - Loud Pipes
From the album 'Classics' (2006)
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Affordable Housing Building Invites People Making $99,825 Per Year to Apply
150 of the building's 200 affordable units are set aside for people making 165 percent AMI.
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NY cops brutally punch man, pin him to floor during arrest in Brooklyn (VIDEO)
Several New York police officers have brutally beaten a man they were holding on the floor
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Jay and Silent Bob Want You to Watch 'Mallrats' With Them at a Brooklyn Park
For free.
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How Synthetic Weed Is Ravaging Brooklyn's Homeless Population
Call it spice, K2, spike, or Flamingo—by any name, it's the cheapest and most dangerous way to get high right now.
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FDNY recruit failed her way into $81,000 desk job
An FDNY recruit is getting a third chance to pass the training academy after collecting top firefighter pay for a year in desk jobs, sources told The Post.
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