Twenty-seven blocks.
For the past several years, that’s how far you had to go on Fulton, starting at Flatbush and traveling through Fort Greene and Clinton Hill to Bed-Stuy, before you would find a bank.
A Capital One branch now open at the corner of Fulton and Clinton has split that distance in half.
As Robert Lopez tells it, his trouble began nearly two years ago when he plucked a bundle of fake dynamite from the trash and took it to his St. Felix Street home with plans to turn the fake bomb into a piggy bank.
Now Mr. Lopez, 38, a career maintenance man with no criminal record beyond a 10-year-old marijuana violation, is set to appear in court on false-bomb charges that could put him in prison for up to four years.
“On 9/11, from my roof of my building I could see the top of the towers smoking,” Mr. Lopez said in tears. “I’m not that kind of a person. I’m not a terrorist. I wouldn’t hurt nobody like that. Never.”
As jobs continue to vanish, job hunters in New York City need someone to give them hope and practical advice. For many, Khalil Rashid is that person.
In a government office building on Fulton Street at the Labor Services Resource Room, it is the responsibility of Mr. Rashid and the other labor services representatives to help people find jobs — no easy task as unemployment rises.
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