The News | 8.2.10
The Brooklyn Preservation Council has begun installing historic markers in and around Borough Hall and Cadman Plaza to commemorate a rich architectural past that was demolished in the name of progress.The sign initiative, called the Borough Hall Area Historical Commemoration Project, is in its very early stages of development, according to the Brooklyn Paper.
Mobile phone and WiFi service will soon be coming to New York City's underground subway stations. After a three year delay, funding was secured by an Australian mobile infrastructure company to move forward with the $200 million project. Bloomberg reports that within two years, wiring will be complete in six stations near 14th Street on Manhattan's west side.
Reading and math scores fell in public schools across Brooklyn. The state raised its grading standards this year and, consequently, more than half of Brooklyn's fourth graders failed the harder reading tests. According to the Daily News, only 43 percent passed, down from 67 percent in 2009.
The job market may be tough, but if you are conversant in Facebook and Twitter, you might be ahead of the game. Digital DUMBO, a group that pushes the social media movement, hosts monthly events in hopes of pairing up job seekers with digital startups. Crain's reports that since its first meet-up 18 months ago, the group attendance attendance has nearly quintupled.
A decades old sex and murder cult that acted in Crown Heights has been making headlines again recently. Preacher Devernon LeGrand would seduce women to work for him, then force them to panhandle dressed as nuns. The New York Post published an expose on the cult after they discovered LeGrand's daughter-in-law pulling the same tricks in Little Italy, causing the NYPD to issue her a subpoena and returned to the infamous Crown Heights house.
Photo credit: The Brooklyn Paper
