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News Coney Island’s Sea Gate Still Defenseless After Sandy — By Its Own Choice
Pinny Dembitzer bounced his SUV past the “For Sale” signs lining Sea Gate’s Atlantic Avenue, slamming his way through potholes in this gated community on the western tip of Coney Island. Dembitzer apologized for the rough ride. His car, like most cars in the neighborhood, replaced one that was destroyed in October 2012, when Hurricane…
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News A Year After Sandy, Brighton Beach Struggles To Get Back on Feet
On a warm Saturday in early October, Emily Axelrod subtly smiled as she surveyed the calm ocean off Brighton Beach, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in south Brooklyn. “Now it’s gorgeous,” the 66-year-old Ukrainian immigrant said as she strolled down Riegelmann Boardwalk. But life was dramatically different a year ago, when Hurricane Sandy hit. The Oct….
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Fast Forward Madoff Employees Were ‘Puppets’ of Enigmatic Employer, Lawyers Say
Lawyers for five former employees of Bernard Madoff said on Thursday their clients were mere puppets under the spell of what one called an enigmatic “broker-dealer rockstar” and “pathological liar.” The former staffers are on trial accused of creating false records and transactions at Bernard Madoff Securities LLC until its implosion in 2008. Investors lost…
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Food Nigerian Buka Gets Authentic (Jewish) Touch
Getting Nat Goldberg to stop for a minute is no small feat. The Nigerian restaurant Buka, which she co-owns with partner and chef Lookman Mashood, is hopping. Their spice-selling store just opened and African Restaurant Week is going strong through Oct. 20th with three-course, $28.95-prix-fixes and a Friday night hip-hop DJ party. Far from Goldberg’s…
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Fast Forward Meet the Jewish Teen Who Helped Carry Out Kosher Chicken E Coli Study
For several months during the spring of his 10th grade year, Jack Millman had an unusual Saturday ritual: He and his mother would ride around metropolitan New York and buy up vast quantities of raw chicken. Millman and his mother, Ann Marks, didn’t cook the poultry. Instead they put it on ice and shipped it…
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Opinion How We Cover Sammy Cohen-Eckstein’s Death
The morning after the funeral for Samuel Cohen-Eckstein, the Brooklyn teenager who was killed by a van just a month before his bar mitzvah, the leaders of his family’s synagogue wrote to me, extremely upset about our coverage. Since these are leaders I respect, who raised serious, vexing questions, I responded to them right away….
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News William Rapfogel’s Empire at Met Council Extends Deep Into Real Estate
From his office above Manhattan’s Financial District, William Rapfogel controlled a charitable empire much larger than most understood. His organization, Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, gave food to poor Jews. But it also cooked up massive real estate deals with powerful for-profit developers, throwing up new low-income housing across the city. All told, Met Council…
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Fast Forward Gabby Giffords Eyes Curbs at N.Y. Gun Show
Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was in New York on Sunday to tour her first gun show since being shot in the head to review new measures that require background checks for buyers. Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, who describe themselves as supporters of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which…
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