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Mitzvah Tanks Take Synagogues to the Streets

Passover ends and they're back on the streets: the mitzvah tanks, synagogues on wheels offering New York City Jews an unexpected, curbside opportunity to pray. "We invite them in the tank, to have something to eat, something to drink, and we have a blessing," tank driver Yishai Eliefja told the New York Times' Cityroom...

Woman's Screams Alert Brooklyn Neighbors, Attacker Flees [VIDEO]

Several neighbors rushed out of their homes in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, N.Y., to scare off a man who was attacking a woman on the 16th Street sidewalk. A video taken from a brownstone stoop, according to the New York Daily News, shows the man grabbing the woman as she screams for help for about 45 seconds...

Brooklyn Janitor Charged in Rape of Middle School Girl

A janitor at a New York City middle school has been arrested and charged in the rape of a 13-year-old student, officials said today. Ambiorix Rodriguez, 32, is accused of raping and sexually abusing a female student multiple times in the basement of the Public School of Marketing and Legal Studies in Brooklyn, police told...

Mutts Are Top Dogs at This Animal Show [VIDEO]

Just because your dog isn't a purebred doesn't mean he can't be best in show. It was all dogs all the time at The Brooklyn Mutt Show this weekend, a show held to celebrate the common dog at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Brooklyn, N.Y. Over 60 dog owners came out on Saturday for the second year of the event, their furry...

Caseworkers Charged in Death of Abused 4-Year-Old NYC Girl

Two former New York City child welfare workers have been charged in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was beaten, drugged and starved in her own home. Prosecutors said that Marchella Brett-Pierce was bound to her mother's bed for months and repeatedly beaten and denied food and water. At her death Sept. 2, she weighed...

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NYPD Puts Cop Who Shot Unarmed Brooklyn Man On Restricted Duty

The police department announced Friday that a narcotics officer and his sergeant have been stripped of their guns and put on desk duty amid an investigation of the officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed drug suspect within a few feet of the suspect's grandmother inside the family home.

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02/10/12 Islanders Playing First NHL Game at Brooklyn's... Source: Mineola American - Mineola NY The New York Islanders will play the first-ever NHL game at Barclays Center on Tuesday, Oct. 2, when they take on the New Jersey Devils at 7:30 p.m. The preseason game will mark the first hockey event at Barclays Center, the new major sports and entertainment venue, which will officially open on Sept. 28 with the first of multiple Jay-Z concerts.
02/09/12 Robust Demand Drives Up Brooklyn Real Estate Prices Source: New York City News - New York NY New development in Brooklyn is one of the hottest sectors of the real estate market, according to the latest report by the brokerage firm MNS.
02/09/12 Nazareth High School, R.I.P. Source: Commonweal For some nine years, the most difficult decisions I had to make did not concern my personal life or job, but the Catholic high school that I served as a volunteer trustee.
02/09/12 Interesting, ethnic near Brooklyn Bridge? Source: Table Hopping There appears to be a good Ethiopian restaurant in Park Slope, which is very near the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
02/09/12 Brooklyn-based Francis Harris & his album Leland,... Source: Welikeit.indie Brooklyn-based Francis Harris & his album Leland , his forthcoming full length album on Scissor & Thread, are quite personal, as Harris composed the album as a requiem for his father.