Brooklyn Bridge, NY

Brooklyn Bridge, NY

  • NEW YORK - JANUARY 05: Long Island Rail Road president Helena Williams looks on at the opening of the Atlantic Terminal Pavilion of the Long Island Rail Road January 5, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The light-filled atrium, six years in the making, is built of limestone, granite and glass and connects New York's storied Long Island Rail Road to ten subway lines, serving 50,000 commuters daily.

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  • A lot of options for Wang? Here are what they appear to be

    ...Town of Hempstead for the time being.3. No sleep till . . . Brooklyn!Teaming with Bruce Ratner to play at the new arena in Brooklyn would be an interesting twist, considering how Wang and Ratner competed against each other to purchase the Nets nearly a decade... |more

  • OPINION: We too easily forget our Island is an island

    ...including Brooklyn and Queens - the people on the South Shore and the East End are in the most trouble. In the event of any evacuation, these groups would be the last off. In the event of the bridges becoming disabled, supplies would have to come across Long... |more

  • Michael Brown, Suffolk college student, dies at 21

    ...team, documenting players' performance as a dress rehearsal for his future job as manager of a sports team.He was born in Brooklyn , raised in Greenport and attended its public schools.Brown reached a personal milestone at his 2008 graduation from Greenport... |more

  • Toussie, bank reach $455,000 settlement with homeowners

    ...court in Central Islip . The documents list 257 homeowners as members of the class-action lawsuit. They claimed that the Brooklyn -based developer, his son, Isaac, PMCC and others conspired to sell buyers substandard new homes, mostly in the Gordon Heights... |more

  • Skelos: Dems have ignored Belmont Park

    ...- Democrats have ignored Belmont Park, state Sen. Dean Skelos said Tuesday in criticizing the selection of a consortium to run slot-like gambling machines at the nearby Aqueduct horse-racing track in Queens .Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) has long tried to make... |more

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  • Tweet That Bus!

    ...mere three weeks after it was proposed, a new service that tracks when your bus is arriving has officially launched in Brooklyn. Roadify, a Park Slope-based start-up, has linked up the B67 bus line (Kensington, Park Slope, Downtown Brooklyn, and DUMBO) to... 6:05 PM |more

  • NEWS: Rise & Shine: Crime data doubts sound like those about scores

    ...runs a program that pairs students with Columbia athletes. (Times) A peace-loving fiberglass cow was stolen from Brooklyn’s Seth Low Intermediate School. (Post) School officials cut the ribbon yesterday on a new high school dedicated to sports management.... |more

  • PSAL boys basketball rankings

    ...Leroy (Truck) Fludd and Anthony Hemingway are back, adding much-needed scoring depth and size to the frontcourt. Next: Brooklyn borough quarterfinals vs. George Westinghouse (Feb. 9, 5 p.m.) 2. John F. Kennedy (20-2) (4) In his 23 years patrolling the John... |more

  • The Senate is voting on whether to expel Sen. Hiram Monserrate.
    Nervous Senate officials calling in extra muscle as state Sen. Hiram Monserrate's fate gets decided

    ...protests get out of hand, said a top Senate official. "It will be visible," the official said. "We just want to avoid any spontaneous demonstrations." Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson of Brooklyn remained mum Monday on whether he would push... |more

  • Should the PSAL bring back the girls borough playoffs?

    ...Then we could be facing a rubber match between Midwood and South Shore or even Jefferson getting a rematch with South Shore. Brooklyn gets my thumbs up for a borough tournament. *** I’m not sure if this format would be successful. But the one thing I learned... |more