Word: brooklyn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Well, we had a co-op in Brooklyn Heights, which we sold last summer. We are now renting because I think that it is a good time to rent. I think short- dated Treasuries are a nice way to ride things out. You are being paid what is historically a good rate of interest, and you are going to get your money back. I think you ought to be very aware of the credit condition of your insurance company. There are outfits that rate the claims-paying ability of insurance companies, and people ought to ask their financial planners...
With each passing day, the grim tally mounted. In Brooklyn an 11-year-old girl was wounded in her family's home by a stray bullet from the street outside. Two days later an 18-year-old Bronx man was stabbed to death by a panhandler who had demanded a dollar. Then a Queens man was shot and seriously wounded as he chased gunmen who had robbed a neighborhood grocery store. A typical week in New York City...
Filmmaker Ken Burns, director of acclaimed documentaries on Huey Long and the Brooklyn Bridge, has collected what seems like every visual scrap from the period: photographs, paintings, newspaper clippings, as well as present-day footage of key battle sites. To them he has wedded excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters and speeches, read by people as diverse as Jason Robards, Jody Powell and George Plimpton. A spare but evocative narration by David McCullough is supplemented by commentary from historian Shelby Foote and others. The result is not just fine history but a pensive epic about the nation's great catastrophe...
...more serious drawback is Dinkins' reluctance to attack problems in a direct and forceful way. Since January, for example, the Flatbush section of Brooklyn has been roiled by a black boycott of two Korean grocery stores that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. The shopowners obtained a civil court injunction ordering the protesters to remain at least 50 ft. away from the shops' entrances, but Dinkins has not ordered the police to enforce it. Instead, he appointed a commission to review his handling...
Distinctive voices are hard to hear this fall amid the din of the assembly line. Much of the new programming is slicker than ever. NBC's The Fanelli Boys, for example, about a quartet of Italian-American brothers who move back to their mother's house in Brooklyn, is cleverly written and brightly acted. But that doesn't compensate for its rancid rehashing of every Italian stereotype known to Hollywood. (One brother is a playboy; another a wheeler- dealer with a hint of Mob connections; a third almost gives Mom a heart attack when he brings home a Jewish girl...