Did 1950s Newspaper Column Ask, 'If a Woman Needs It, Should She Be Spanked?'
The clipping appears to have come from a column called, "You Said It ..." in the now-defunct New York Daily Mirror.
How East New York became a ‘killing field’ with NYC’s most unsolved murders
This practice led to rising violent crime, and by the early ’90s, the victims were increasingly children. On July 17, 1991, Julia Parker, a popular 17-year-old high school student in East New York, ...
Zilia Sánchez, Painter Who Found Fame Late in Life, Dies at 98
A Cuban-born minimalist painter who spent much of her life in Puerto Rico, she was in her 90s when her erotically charged ...
Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95
In his long-running Village Voice comic strip and in his many plays and screenplays, he took delight in skewering politics, ...
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New Lots Library redesign pays tribute to its roots as an African burial ground
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Brooklyn Public Library has unveiled ...
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The great mall overhaul: LI retail turned inside out
However, amidst changing consumer behavior and the massive shift toward e-commerce, many of Long Island’s malls and retail power centers no longer meet their communities’ needs. GENE SPIEGELMAN: ...
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$36M federal grant to replace bridge on Veterans Memorial Highway, expand Long Island Greenway trail
The Long Island Greenway is planned as an extension of the 750-mile Empire State Trail that runs from Manhattan to the Canadian border, said Mike Lieberman, program director for New York Community ...
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Thousands of New Apartments on Brooklyn’s Waterfront? Not So Fast, Say Some Local Leaders
Some members of a task force weighing the Brooklyn Marine Terminal’s future question whether scaling back one of the ...
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East New York residents plagued with rodents, mold & leaks 'cautiously optimistic' about new apartment ownership
Residents in an East New York apartment complex may soon get relief from their leaky pipes mold, and rodents. Wyndham Plaza, which has over 1,500 units, just got taken over by new ownership.
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Feuding dollar van drivers ends in deadly Brooklyn drive-by shooting: sources
law enforcement sources confirmed to NBC New York. The two dollar van drivers were in Brooklyn's East Flatbush neighborhood just before 1 p.m. when someone opened fire, police said. One of the ...
CBS News26d
Social worker fatally stabbed outside Brooklyn homeless shelter, police sources say
NEW YORK — A social worker was fatally stabbed outside a Brooklyn homeless shelter Thursday night, sources tell CBS News New York. The Department of Homeless Services said it happened just after ...
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Daniel Libeskind Tries His Hand at Affordable Housing
With the Jewish Museum in Berlin, opened in 2001, Libeskind established himself as a pioneer of deconstructivism, a style based on the illusion that buildings were lifting off, bursting, imploding, or ...