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Fifty percent of teens are sex offenders.

We have questions about the brouhaha over sex offenders living in public housing, near public schools, day-care centers, super markets; in fact anywhere within 100 yards of a child. First: if you evict them from public housing (federal law prohibits … Continue reading

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Guns! Guns! Guns! In the decade since 1995, the NYPD has seized 70,000 illegal handguns. During that time, handguns killed 5,400 New Yorkers. No wonder Mayor Bloomberg has filed federal lawsuits again four gun dealers in Virginia that, according to … Continue reading

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We love you, Rosie

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We love the feud between Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump, but we wonder why she hasn’t mentioned Trump’s full-page ad in the New York Times following the notorious Central Park Rape. For those who think the latest American Idol winner … Continue reading

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Public golf course owner in Brooklyn linked to Colombo soldier: So cool. The business association, mafia soldier, Craig Marino, has a chest tatoo that says “Fuck the police.” Because of our life-long aversion to the game (avid-golfer dad, teenage rebellion), … Continue reading

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Everything Old is New Again

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The good old days are back. Another fun controversy at City College—hotbed of radicalism, hothouse for neo-cons, and hot time for swingin’ singles. This time the beef is over a room that students named after convicted cop-killer, Assata Shakur and … Continue reading

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Atlantic Yards Project approved: A three-member state panel greenlights the Bruce Ratner’s $4.3 billion project that will not only include an arena for the Nets, but 16 office and residential towers that will strip that part of Brooklyn of anything … Continue reading

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See Gerritsen Beach and Die

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Gerritsen Beach, the predominantly white, one-time fishing village located in South Brooklyn, a neighborhood, Congressman Anthony Weiner claimed  “whose residents don’t put up with violence, and certainly do not tolerate hate,” has become hate crime central. Let’s start with the … Continue reading

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Not a suicide–murder: Actress and Queens native Adrienne Shelly did not, as originally thought, commit suicide. A 5-foot Ecuadorian worker has reportedly confessed to the murder. According to the worker, Diego Pillco, Shelly became enraged over the noise he was … Continue reading

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Developer Bruce Ratner, who has been using the promise of moving the NJ Nets to Brooklyn as a way to build public support for his mega-monster Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn (without the Nets, it would be just another cold-blooded … Continue reading

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Mom and Daughter Found Murdered in Harlem

Some questions even Recharger, whose IQ is at least 74, cannot answer. For example, why does the apparent slaying of a 9-year-old girl and her mother appear on page 24 of today’s NY Post? According to the story, the decomposing … Continue reading

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