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...BROOKLYN, N.Y.—The sprawling complex just minutes away from my Lefferts Manor home might be the world’s most famous housing project. This is hardly a result of its physical virtues—the orange brick façade and the green balcony ledges stand out only as eyesores, striking examples of an architectural period my friend’s mother once dubbed “Early Ugly.” But a sign on the Bedford Avenue side reveals the site’s significance to the uninformed: Ebbets Field. There used...
Ebbets Field was introduced to the bulldozers shortly after the Brooklyn Dodgers bolted for Los Angeles in 1957, leaving behind a less-than-spectacular apartment building and a million broken hearts. Brooklyn had loved its baseball team’s players, certainly—champions like Jackie Robinson, Pee-Wee Reese and Duke Snider as well as the more comical figures of earlier, more futile years...
...breakthrough came after she met alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, the guru of a group of young musicians in Brooklyn who were trying to find new ways of playing. Coleman got his followers interested in African music, in unusual harmonies and novel forms of organization. "From Steve Coleman," Wilson says, "I learned to tear a piece of music apart and get away from standard approaches. I learned about cycles of rhythm, being able to hear cues in the rhythms instead of chords. And I learned to hear the layering of rhythms. Before that, I had been only studying chords and standard...
When police arrested Brooklyn, N.Y., busboy Abraham Abdallah in March, he had Forbes magazine's issue on the 400 richest people in America, plus Social Security numbers, credit-card numbers, bank-account information and mothers' maiden names of an A list of intended victims drawn from the issue, including Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart. Abdallah is accused of using websites, e-mail and off-line methods to try to steal the celebrities' identities and make off with millions in assets. One scheme that was caught in time: he allegedly sent an e-mail purporting to come from Siebel...
...film Annie Hall? Having just read that the universe is expanding, the boy is so worried that he can't do his homework. "Someday it will break apart," he tells his shrink, "and that will be the end of everything." But, his mother snaps, "you're here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding...