Word: brooklyn
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...frightened New York City subway passengers on the Brooklyn-bound local said later they knew there was something wrong when their train overshot several station platforms. As it hurtled toward the busy Union Square Station at 12:15 a.m., the train derailed on a curve and slammed into a steel pillar, leaving several cars a mass of twisted metal in a hot, smoke-filled tunnel. "When the lights went off, smoke started coming into the car," said passenger Gilbert Asante. "I thought I was dead...
...That nostalgic sitcom, with its first-person narration, absence of a laugh track and eye for childhood detail, has sparked a minor trend toward more sensitive, autobiographical sitcoms. One of the most widely anticipated comes from Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties), who has based his new series for CBS, Brooklyn Bridge, on his experiences growing up in an extended Jewish family in the 1950s. Judging from the pilot script (the show is still being finished), Brooklyn Bridge will have its share of TV sentiment but a good dose of ethnic authenticity as well...
This sinuous story begins near its conclusion, in June 1985. Jan O'Deigh, an employee at a Brooklyn branch of the New York Public Library, receives a note from her former lover Franklin Todd: Stuart Ressler is dead. Grieving, Jan remembers the day some three years earlier when Todd first appeared at her desk and requested information about Ressler. "What was the man's line of work?" she had asked. "Don't know for sure," came the reply. "Something hard. Something objective, I mean." And why did he want to know about Ressler? "I work with...
...photography major at the Rochester Institute of Technology, was made responsible for illustrating the World Notes page and spent much of the summer scrambling to gather pictures from around the globe. One of his final duties: assigning a photographer, picking a site and getting his fellow interns to Brooklyn for the picture that appears on this page...
There are exceptions. The nine-year-old Metropolitan Assembly of God, located in a Do the Right Thing neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., goes all-out to recruit restless teenagers and has a 9,000-student Sunday school. While many of the fastest-growing congregations are young, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Ind., famous for its armada of Sunday-school buses, has been a Fundamentalist fixture for decades...