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Oprah Winfrey went on a tour of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Borough Park and Brooklyn Heights on Wednesday to get an inside look at the lives of America's Hassidic Jews. The Hassidic Chabad organization reported ...
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You may have seen a hilarious image pop up on Facebook or Tumblr in the past few days from Japan- department store style in-store signage from a Japanese shop, in which it loudly and proudly trumpets a ...
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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK- Impassive, seen-it-all New York City types were stunned this weekend when news broke that a woman had been burned to death- seemingly by a stranger- in the elevator of her apartment building in Prospect ...
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Police at a New York Precinct were surprised yesterday by a man walking into the department, reeking of gasoline and announcing that he had "Set a Fire". Police will not confirm the identity of the man but ...
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The seat once held by Rep. Anthony Weiner has been handed over to the GOP after a special election.
The GOP is spinning the win as a "No" to Obama's economic policy after novice Bob Turner easily defeated ...
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An autopsy in the horrifying kidnapping and murder case involving 8-year-old Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzsky has revealed the child was drugged with several potent muscle relaxers and antipsychotic medications before he was smothered to death by hardware ...
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The disappearance of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky from an area of Brooklyn described by its congressional representative as "no-crime" has come to a tragic end, with the location of the boy's dismembered body in an area dumpster.
Leiby Kletzky disappeared ...
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A 4-year-old Brooklyn boy was mauled to death by the family's Cane Corso Mastiff while his siblings looked on in horror, and it appears the child's mother's boyfriend openly trained the family's dogs to be vicious and ...
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Insanely high rents, disgusting streets and subway stations, but every so often a spontaneous striptease on the subway turns into an epic dance party.
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Hilarious, and my crush on Brian Williams has just increased by 137%. It's like Marrakesh!
[via TDW]
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A pantsless man filmed the crack plowing teams in Brookyn Heights smashing up a Ford Explorer in an attempt to navigate snow clearing devices down a snowed-in New York street. (NSFW language.)
[via TDW]
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Michael Brea, who had a small part on Ugly Betty and was once in a Coke ad, has been taken to a Brooklyn hospital for evaluation after killing his mother- 55-year-old Yannick Brea, a September 11th survivor- with a ...
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Spotted in Prospect Park. Of course, those young enough not to have seen Jurassic Park might be lured by the warning...
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One of the more stereotypically American things to spring up as a Fourth of July tradition in my hometown of New York is the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.
Each year, several contestants and several more spectators gather ...
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Sometimes, the internet can band together and do things nicer than making videos of people getting maimed go viral.
You might recall the time everyone was shocked when 4chan stepped up and saved a kitty-cat from torture, because ...
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It was over three years ago that Amanda Pogony's 1996 Honda Accord disappeared without a trace.
Pogony says she reported the theft to police, and when she asked about finding it, they laughed at her. She and her ...
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Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), one of the most vocal proponents of the new healthcare reform legislation, received a threatening letter containing an unidentified white powder today.
Law enforcement officials responded to the scene on Kew Gardens road at ...
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MTV is celebrating the life and work of Christopher George Latore Wallace today, better known to the world as Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G, or just Big. (Brooklyn stand up.)
Wallace's biopic Notorious has been running in heavy ...
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34-year-old actor Antwon Tanner of the CW's One Tree Hill was sentenced to three months in jail in a federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
Tanner pleaded guilty in August to identity theft charges for his role in ...
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Brooklyn career badass Joe Rollino, known for lifting 3,200 lbs. in his heyday as the Coney Island strongman, was killed in Brooklyn Monday when he was struck by a minivan.
Rollino suffered a broken pelvis, head trauma and ...
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A planned protest in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn may be difficult to pull off today, due to the epic snowstorm expected in the Northeast.
The furor began when a bike lane in the largely car-free city was ...
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Never let it be said that Brooklyn doesn't know how to party.
The Brooklyn high school that found itself at the center of widespread attention yesterday after reports surfaced that two female teachers were allegedly discovered in flagrante ...
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![[Video] Brian Williams slow jams about NYT’s ‘discovery of Brooklyn’](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2010/12/brian-williams-NYT-discovery-of-brooklyn-100x100.jpg)
