Other US victims were Virginia man and his teenage daughter
New York Daily News Nov 28, 08 2:32 PM CST
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The massacre in Mumbai has left at least four Americans dead: A Brooklyn-raised rabbi and his wife, and a Virginia man and his teenage daughter. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and Rivka Holtzberg, 28, were slain at a Jewish center they helped run. Family and friends in Brooklyn have one speck of good news: The couple's nanny managed to escape with their 2-year-old son, Moshe. “Today, he became an orphan,” a rabbi in Brooklyn told the New York Daily News .
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Couple ran center for Jewish travelers targeted by terrorists
New York Times Nov 28, 08 2:04 AM CST
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A young Jewish couple from Brooklyn were taken hostage in the Mumbai attacks and many fear the worst, the New York Times reports . Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, ran the well-known Chabad center, a popular haven for Jewish travellers. They were seized along with at least six others at the center, which was targeted by terrorists. A cook managed to escape with the pair's 2-year-old son, whose pants were soaked in blood.
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Wigs a hot item in Jewish Brooklyn nabe
Jewish Daily Forward Oct 23, 08 5:30 PM CDT
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The Alaska governor's flashy signature 'do is a surprise hit with Orthodox Jewish women in Brooklyn, where the "Sarah Palin Wig" has been selling briskly—at $695 a pop—to women who keep their hair covered for religious reasons. “It's a very classic look, yet fashion forward,” the owner of the shop that carries them tells the Jewish Forward . About 50 Palin wigs, made with real hair, have been sold since John McCain named his VP, the AP reports.
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To get the best cuts and top quality, more chefs go DIY
New York Times Oct 1, 08 1:17 PM CDT
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Brooklyn eatery Marlow & Sons gets its pork by the pig and beef by the half-ton steer, and it's not alone in its whole-hog approach. A growing number of restaurants are sidestepping industrial meat all together, instead butchering entire carcasses right on the premises. There's some of the old "if you want something done right" mantra involved, but also a question of convenience, reports the New York Times .
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Stunned suspect falls to his death from fire Brooklyn escape
New York Post Sep 25, 08 11:30 AM CDT
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A naked man fell to his death yesterday in Brooklyn after police fired a Taser at him, the New York Post reports. The man, 35-year-old Iman Morales, had been ranting on a second-story fire escape. His mother begged police not to hurt him, saying he was sick, but when Morales began waving a fluorescent light tube, officers got the order to stun him.
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Brooklyn pet-store owner offers $1K reward for animal with little chance to survive wild
New York Times Aug 19, 08 4:51 PM CDT
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A Brooklyn pet-store owner knew he would be dismissed as a crank when he called the cops, but did it anyway—to report the disappearance of a two-headed turtle. The turtle, so popular with the neighborhood kids it was kept in a store window, was rare and requires special treatment. Turtle pellets must be split and offered to both the heads, the owner tells the New York Times, or they will actually fight over the food.
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Camera caught fallen patient left ignored on NYC hospital floor
CNN Jul 12, 08 10:02 AM CDT
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The death of a woman on the floor of a Brooklyn hospital was caused by blood clots from extended inactivity, CNN reports. Chronic deep vein thrombosis formed clots in her legs that eventually reached her lungs. The case has drawn international attention after security-camera footage showed the woman falling to the floor and convulsing, with no one checking on her for an hour. She had sat in the waiting room for more than 24 hours.
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Woman left to die on floor 'killed twice' by staff at NY facility
CNN Jul 9, 08 11:03 AM CDT
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The family of the woman who died on the waiting-room floor in a Brooklyn hospital plans to sue for $25 million, CNN reports. Esmin Green’s relatives are also pushing for criminal charges against the hospital staff, who they say ignored her and falsified records to say she was up and about when she was actually lying ignored on the floor, dying.
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Brooklyn hospital staff overlooks ER patient for over an hour
CNN Jul 2, 08 7:22 AM CDT
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Recently uncovered surveillance footage shows a woman collapsing in a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital, then lying on the floor for more than an hour while hospital staff ignored her. Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting for treatment for almost 24 hours when she collapsed at 5:32am and lay convulsing on the floor. She stopped moving at 6:07am, and was found dead at 6:35.
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Overserved patron, locked in, surfs web and phones owner's mother
New York Times Jun 9, 08 2:06 PM CDT
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Most 20-something New Yorkers are accustomed to getting shut out of bars, but how about getting shut in ? A young paralegal who now knows far more than he wanted to about Williamsburg's Trophy Bar shares his tale of overnight captivity with the New York Times, recalling that when he realized the sun was coming up, "I thought, ‘I guess I’m going to be late for work.' "
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There's plenty of NYC beyond the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty
Associated Press Feb 25, 08 6:35 AM CST
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Headed to New York for a burst of sightseeing? Trade the Statue of Liberty for a tour of the Big Apple’s 10 must-see buildings, as compiled by the Center for Architecture: Conde Nast Building Brooklyn Museum Prada New York Rose Center For Earth And Space Apple Store Soho
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Police: no chance she survived loss of blood
Miami Herald Jan 16, 08 1:38 PM CST
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With Stepha Henry missing for months after a trip to south Florida, New York police yesterday arrested a suspect whose abandoned car held so much of Henry's blood that police, declaring "no one could survive with that loss of blood," charged the man with second-degree murder, the Miami Herald reports. Henry, 22, went missing from a Florida nightclub last spring.
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After someone steals beloved parrot, NYC owners put up bounty
New York Post Nov 30, 07 3:29 PM CST
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He answers to Franklin, talks with a Brooklyn accent, and does a mean impersonation of a truck backing up. Find the missing parrot and it's worth $10,000 to his distraught Manhattan owners. They put up the bounty when their beloved African grey was stolen from a pet boarding shop last week, the New York Post reports.
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City rallied to track down mystery woman glimpsed on train car
Reuters Nov 9, 07 10:28 AM CST
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New Yorkers eagerly took up the cause of Patrick Moberg, who spotted the woman of his dreams across a crowded subway car, lost her in the crowd when they both exited the train, and set up a website dedicated to finding her, Reuters reports. Thanks to a citywide outpouring of interest, the woman has now been identified.
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