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According to several legal experts, a 19-year-old in New York City may be the first person to have successfully used Facebook to provide an alibi. When Rodney Bradford was charged with mugging two males at gunpoint in Brooklyn on a Saturday in October, it didn't help that he was already facing a previous robbery indictment. And although Bradford's father and stepmother backed up his claim that at the time of the alleged mugging, he was in Harlem at his father's apartment, witnesses identified him in a lineup, says his lawyer Robert Reuland...
...crime, which took place around 11:50 a.m., his status on Facebook was updated at 11:49 a.m.: "on the phone with this fat chick...wherer my i hop." He had been talking with his girlfriend and referenced a recent visit to the restaurant chain IHOP. A Brooklyn district attorney subpoenaed Facebook and, with the pulled records, Reuland was able to convince her that Bradford's Facebook update had been posted within a minute of "the time the crime was alleged to have happened, from an IP address registered to [Bradford's] father in Manhattan...
Like his paintings, his caricatures owed much to a 19th century aesthetic. The link between the crosshatching technique of the French cartoonist André Gill and the methods of the Brooklyn-born Levine is unmistakable, but to readers of Esquire in the early 1960s, Levine's style seemed refreshingly different. Soon the painter who regarded caricature as just a sideline also found himself illustrating for New York magazine and Harper's, drawing covers for TIME and appearing regularly in a new publication, the New York Review of Books...
Plus, when you find out about a cause by getting a text message from a friend, you're more likely to trust it and feel a sense of community by giving. Mary South, an editor in Brooklyn, N.Y., says she decided to donate $10 by text to the Red Cross on Wednesday afternoon after she read a friend's post about it on Facebook. "I thought, If everyone else is doing it, then I can too," says South, who says she gives to other nonprofits online but had never donated via text message. "When you see that kind of devastation...
Percy, who was born in Texas and studied law at Columbia University and Brooklyn Law School on the GI Bill, became Manhattan borough president in 1966--making him the highest-ranking black official in the state at the time. His 1977 run for mayor was unsuccessful, but his work cleared the way for politicians like Representative Charlie Rangel and David Dinkins, who in 1989 was elected the city's first black mayor...