On a stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, the spice trade is thriving.
The Islamic shops that line the blocks between Fourth Avenue and Nevins Street offer thousands of fragrance oils by the jugful — and there’s even one named after the president, Obama Oil.
A pocket of Brooklyn has the highest juvenile crime rate in the city – and police say robberies of iPods, fancy cell phones and other expensive electronic devices are at least partly to blame.
“That’s the new thing,” said 84th Precinct Crime Prevention Officer John Kenny. “They just snatch it off your ear. The era of cell phones, BlackBerries, iPods – that’s the source of a lot of these robberies.” (more…)
A sleek black cat rested in his cage at the front room of Hope Veterinary Clinic in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. His yellow eyes beckoned potential parents.
“My name is Poe,” read the sign on the front of his temporary home. “I am a 7-month-old, neutered male, and I am the Purr-fect Halloween cat.”
But the weeks leading up to Halloween can mean bad luck for black cats.
Some city pet shelters and adoption agencies ban black-cat adoptions this time of year – fearful the felines could be used for religious or sacrificial purposes by groups engaged in witchcraft and paranormal communication.
The reporters and cameras swarming the new Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn yesterday and the controversy surrounding the school in recent months didn’t bother Najat Handou. What mattered to her is that her son is to learn Arabic.
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