Williamsburg, Brooklyn
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 16: Lights illuminate the 90th Police Precinct in Williamsburg , where Detective Louis Scarcella interrogated numerous suspects, is seen on May 16, 2013 in Brooklyn borough of New York City. Following the recent clearing of David Ranta of murder after serving a 23-year prison sentence, the Brooklyn, N.Y. District Attorney is reviewing 50 murder cases investigated by celebrated Detective Scarcella. Many of Scarcella's cases depended on the testimony of a single witness, a drug addict named Teresa Gomez. The review of cases will give special scrutiny to those cases which appear weakest. Scarcella, 61 and now retired, denies ever having used unethical tactics to secure a conviction.
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Christian Ferdinand, of Maine, arrested in Shaniesha Forbes' death
smothering.The Brooklyn girl's body was discovered on Gerritsen Beach on Jan. 6.She had attended the Academy for Young Writers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn . She disappeared two days before her body was found.Information on Ferdinand's lawyer wasn't immediately Read more »
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Julio Acevedo, Brooklyn hit-run suspect, still at large
News reported earlier Tuesday that Acevedo, 44, said in a phone interview that a gunman was pursuing him as he sped down a Williamsburg, Brooklyn , street before he slammed his car into the cab carrying the couple, Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21. Raizy Read more »
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The Low Line as fait accompli
Williamsburg Bridge Trolley terminal as seen in its younger and more vulnerable years. The Low Line — the ambitious and futuristic plan to send sunlight into an underground trolley terminal while turning the space into a park — is the project that just won’t 12:30 AM from Second Ave. Sagas Read more »
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Williamsburg Hipsters Are Unhappy With 'Poser Hipsters' From Manhattan Clogging Their Bars
Williamsburg waterfront and near McCarren Park — and the opening of higher-end spots targeting tourists and visitors from outside Brooklyn — have spurred such a nightlife shift that many local partiers are avoiding certain blocks altogether when Friday night 5/21/13 from The Business Insider Read more »
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Williamsburg's Sweet Chick Revives an Iconic Harlem Favorite
imitators as far away as Los Angeles. Nowadays the iconic conjoinment is a tough find in Harlem, but it's being revived in Williamsburg. Sweet Chick debuted a few months ago at North 8th Street and Bedford Avenue, in a corner space that was previously the 5/21/13 from Village Voice Read more »
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Critics fear judge will greenlight controversial Broadway Triangle development
Emily Jane Goodman, slammed the breaks on the city’s controversial zoning plan to build housing on the 31-acre spot in Williamsburg, ruling that it illegally favored Hasidic families in the area. But the liberal-leaning Goodman retired last year and Hagler, 5/21/13 from New York Daily News Read more »
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Rockabus Returns Saturday With Expanded Non-Stop Service To Rockaway Beach
weekend the re-purposed school buses depart every hour from three different locations (North 6th and Rodney Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza, and Eldridge and Houston in Manhattan). The destinations alternate hourly between Rockaway Beach 5/21/13 from Gothamist Read more »
