Wednesday, July 4, 2007 – 7:20 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Kobayashi, who has won every Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest since 2001, and become an international celebrity, was finally dethroned today in Coney Island by the Great White Hope, Joey Chestnut.
Chestnut downed a staggering and record breaking 66 […]
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 – 9:10 am
For months now “The Splasher” has been prowling Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan hurling paint at prominent pieces of street art, occasionally leaving a manifesto with cryptic sayings like “destroy the museums, in the streets and everywhere”.
The New York art scene has been buzzing trying to figure out who the mysterious “Splasher” is, and whether […]
Friday, June 22, 2007 – 8:30 am
Daniel Pujdak, a 23-year-old firefighter died from injuries he received after a fall from the roof of a four story building.
Pujdak had been on the job with Ladder 146 for only two years when he responded to a blaze at 83 Messerole St. in Williamsburg.
Pujdak was sent to the roof with a “heavy” […]
Thursday, June 14, 2007 – 11:48 am
“Oh my God, there’s a huge, blazing fire behind me but this sandwich board is in my way, I shall surely perish!”
Thanks to the NYC Environmental Control Board you will never find yourself in this situation. Your tax dollars are hard at work fining small businesses for placing a sandwich board in […]
Thursday, June 7, 2007 – 2:48 pm
Federal judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of United States District Court in Brooklyn, dismissed what may well have been the most significant lawsuit opposing Atlantic Yards Development Project yesterday.
Garaufis said in his ruling, “Plaintiffs have not set forth facts supporting a plausible claim of an unconstitutional taking,” he wrote. “Nowhere in the amended complaint or […]
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 – 7:41 am
Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz failed to renew the appointments of five of Brooklyn’s Community Board 6 members. What do the five members have in common? They all voted against developer Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project.
A community board exists to represent the members of its community and give voice to their concerns about what is […]
Monday, May 21, 2007 – 7:24 am
No word on whether the face lift will include shops that sell anything other than cell phone accessories, Timberlands or urban fabulous outerwear.
The Bloomberg administration is investing $15 million in downtown Brooklyn’s gritty Fulton Street Mall shopping district, as part of an overhaul that will include modernized bus shelters, benches and other contemporary […]
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