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Brooklyn’s Crown Jewel or Soulless Mall? The Luxury Commodification of Williamsburg
WWD via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWalk into any store in Williamsburg right now and the shopkeepers know what’s coming — as do the...
Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ − even as she groused...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoNo other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith...
Katie Holmes Delivers a Perfect Cate Blanchett Diss in Far-From-Perfect ‘The Wanderers’
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoJoan MarcusFinally, you hope, Katie Holmes has the chance to shake off the ghost of Dawson’s Creek’s...
Americans among 8 injured in bus shooting in Jerusalem
ABC News via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoEight people, including at least five Americans, were wounded when a gunman opened fire on a bus in...
Hate crimes are on the rise − but the narrow legal definition makes it hard to charge and convict
The Conversation Canada via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoWith hate crimes, context is everything, and events outside of the United States – like the war...
Biggest polio threat in years sparks alarms from New York to California
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoIn this July 18, 1962, photo, a girl in Atlanta swallows a lump of sugar coated with a dose of polio...
NYC school officials say yeshivas run by Hasidic community fail to teach students in core subjects
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoEighteen private Jewish schools run by New York City's politically powerful Hasidic community deprived thousands of students the required secular education in English, math, science and social ...