Archive | October, 2007

Minorities with Breast Cancer

Breast cancer has proven to be a leading killer of blacks and other minorities in most urban environments.

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Fun Halloween Treats

This year Halloween is can be more than going  trick or treating with your friends and more than going to see the Halloween parade in Manhattan. Many fun filled activities are available for every age this year. For children, the Stuyvesant Heights Parents Association is hosting their 3rd annual Halloween tour. Children will be able to go trick or treating together [...]

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Diane Cardwell Speaks with Aspiring Youth

Diane Cardwell Speaks with Aspiring Youth

Graduate of the renowned Harvard University, Diane Cardwell graced her presence with the young, aspiring journalists of NYAJB on Saturday, October 20 th. Currently the City Hall Borough Chief of the prestigious New York Times, she discussed her trials and tribulations of her journalism career. Growing up in a struggling middle class family residing on [...]

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More Than Just Greenery: Artisans Sell Work at Fort Greene Park

In Fort Greene Park, artisans gather together to display and sell their contemporary and innovative peices of work. Natasha Harsh, a genuine artisan in her own right, invites various artisans and their work to her show, which runs from spring to mid-autumn. In the winter, these artisans, or skilled craftspeople, do other shows, and freelance [...]

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Grady’s Path to the Championship Is Not Gravy

Grady High School vs. Brooklyn Tech With little time left to recoop from last weeks loss the Engineers tried to fix a troubled defense that gave up 1082 yards in their 5 losses, and had trouble generating much offense. After last weeks debacle against the Utes the Engineers made a valiant effort to come back [...]

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The Glory Days of Brooklyn Tech Football

Back when Grease was the must see musical, and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the start of new generation of horror movies, the Brooklyn Tech Football Engineers were the kings of Brooklyn. It was the late 60′s through the early 70′s. Head Coach Cuzzocrea of ’69 and ’70 teams explained those times as the glory [...]

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Hattitude

Christopher Samuel contributed to this report. A Brooklyn hattery insists that its customers make their hats, instead of letting their hats make them. “Hats are no longer just an accessory, but the main article of clothing,” said Joe, the single-monikered owner of Malchijah Hats on DeKalb. Locating their boutique in the artsy melting pot of Fort Greene, partners Joe and [...]

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Gentrification in Brooklyn

What is gentrification? Gentrification is the upgrading of an urban and often economically challenged neighborhood. It usually results in the displacement of lower income families because they are not able to compete with the more affluent class that is trying to replace them. We explored our local Downtown Brooklyn shopping area [Fulton Street], to find [...]

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Atlantic Yards

A walk-a-thon will be held this Sunday in Prospect Heights by the group Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn to protest developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. Ratner is trying to build an arena for the Nets basketball team, as well as high-rise apartment buildings and office space near Prospect Heights.

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Aliens in America

Immigrants are the key to the infrastructure of the United States. They have helped our country develop in areas such as labor and diversity. Would it be fair to just decide to rid our nation of them? Isn’t America supposed to be the land of the immigrants?

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Barry Bonds, Baseball, and the Steroid Era in Sports

This past year in baseball and sports in general many truths have been revealed to fans, reporters, and the rest of the American public. Throughout history, athletes have tried to get an edge on the competition. Steroids, and amphetamines have been the most recent and effective way of doing just that.

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New Utretcht Sweeps by Brooklyn Tech 36-20

A midseason stop before heading down playoff lane proved an easy stroll for New Utrecht High School, who rolled over Brooklyn Tech 36-20, with senior halfback Alex Warden in the driver’s seat last Saturday.

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My life in the school system

My name is Talon S. Taylor. I am 13 years old and I was born on November 30, 1993. As of February 2006, I became a home-schooled student. My main career goal is to become a successful Graphic Artist. I also have interests in Astrophysics – [which is the study of objects and matter outside [...]

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Who wants to know why people cheat!

Who wants to know why people cheat? Do you ever wonder why your significant other, no matter how much love is involved, will still cheat on you? You can give someone everything in the world and yet still this person can find a way to not be faithful. This may not go for everyone as [...]

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A Decent Burial, 200 Years Later

For a few hours last week, Lower Manhattan traded the noisy clamor of taxis and the chatter of attorneys for drumming, singing and dancing as a throng of people properly put their ancestors to rest after hundreds of years. This was not a mass funeral, but rather the dedication of the African Burial Ground Memorial; [...]

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Can Programs Really Help Our Young Black Kids?

LAMBS is a Saturday program that starts in October and ends in June. It produces many activities such as sports, education, singing, dancing, acting, writing, bowling, roller skating, and spiritual growth. This program has been in effect for more than twelve years and was designed to teach young black kids as early as the age [...]

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Alarming News! STDs Don’t Discriminate, Everyone At Risk! Scientific Genocide Is Sweeping The Nation!

According to Laurel Pregnancy Center in Maryland, the United States has the highest rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the world.

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Church ‘Jams’ With Positive Message

A Brooklyn church is planning an event to keep teenagers focused on faith and keep their focus away from the street. East New York’s Changing Lives Christian Center is staging its 2nd annual “Back to School Jam” at its Linden Boulevard facility. Aimed at youth both inside and beyond the neighborhood, this year’s show is [...]

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Disney World

In life, every person either has, had, or wished for a place they believe anything can happen, and come true. When little kids are young, they all have secret, magical places that they believe are real. In my own life, I know that I have believed in magical places before, and still do. The one [...]

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New Sidekicks Swinging In

T-mobile is launching two new Sidekick phones aimed at luring more teenagers to the wireless company’s popular brand of cell phones. Dubbed the Sidekick LX and the Sidekick Slide, the phones will begin to sell in stores this month. The Sidekick LX comes next in line after the popular Sidekick 3, one of the most [...]

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Residents Turn Over Guns at NYPD’s Buyback

EAST FLATBUSH – On November 12, local residents turned in guns at the NYPD’s Gun Buyback Initiative in Central Brooklyn. [...]

Hundreds Pack Times Square for Mario 3D Launch

Video game fans brave the cold to join event promoting release of Super Mario 3D Land

Pet Hospital Opens With Hot Dog Contest

Brooklyn’s newest pet hospital opens with dog contest and visit from hot dog eating champ

How Will the Barclay’s Center Affect its Brooklyn Neighborhood

Sometimes when Anne and Adam are walking past the construction at Barclay Center Arena in central Brooklyn, they see rats [...]

Brooklyn Turns Containers Into Shops

Dekalb Market converted unused shipping containers into a small village of eateries, craft shops, and performance spaces

NBA Lockout’s Effect on Store Sales

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN – Stores around Madison Square Garden usually experience a boom in business during the NBA season. But due [...]