Tag: BROOKLYN

Share A Brooklyn teacher could be out of a job very soon, after making some controversial comments about her students on Facebook. Just a day after a 12-year-old girl drowned on a school field trip to the beach, fifth-grade teacher Christine Rubino posted a status update, implying that her students may deserve the same fate. "After today, I'm thinking the beach is a good trip for my class. I ...

Oblivious Brooklynites intent on walking and gabbing need to be on high alert for brazen and blazing cell-phone thieves. A wave of iPhone thefts has intensified in recent weeks, and the ride-by bandits commit their crimes while saddled on bicycles. The cell-crime spree, which began to garner attention in October, continues to spread through various neighborhoods in the borough, including Park ...

On Halloween, a group of really cool teenagers decided to remind everyone of their awesomeness, and proceeded to vandalize their Brooklyn neighborhood. Little did they know, however, that 26-year-old Daniel Cavanagh was lurking in the shadows and observing their every movement. After doing a little research, Cavanagh friended the teens on Facebook, and headed to his blog, where he described the ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Brooklyn nerds have come together to raise money for "a cyberpunk fête" celebrating the 15th anniversary of the movie 'Hackers.' (15 years? Doesn't that make you feel young?) Funny thing is, Williamsburg dwellers were so eager to get their phreak on with Zero Cool, Acid ...

We've gone on a wild goose chase in Iraq, we've spent countless hours worrying about Iran and North Korea, and, all this time, a rogue nuclear genius has been lurking in our own Brooklyn backyard. Mark Suppes, a 32-year-old New Yorker and Web developer for Gucci, recently became the 38th amateur physicist to build a reactor capable of conducting nuclear fusion. According to the Daily News, ...

So this doesn't really help non-New York City residents. And for the moment, it only makes a difference to those who happen to dwell in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn [Ed. Note: Some of us do!]. But a startup called Roadify is testing out some interesting stuff. 'Parking Around Me' (PAM) is a text messaging service for finding parking spots. Users text "get" and their location, in the form of ...

Google Street View is well known for some of the crazy things picked up by its roving band of car-mounted cameras. There are mundane, if disturbing, sights -- like these shots of Bambi getting run down -- and more surreal images of lasers, ghosts, and alien invasions. But none of those is quite as otherworldly as the mysterious light in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. The bright light erupting ...

British-born artist Paul St. George has brought to life the vision of his fictional great grandfather, Alexander Stanhope St. George, the Telectroscope. What is it? The Telectroscope is a giant, telescope-like optical tube that runs under the Atlantic allowing people in London to stare at people in Brooklyn, and visa-versa. In reality, the Telectroscope is a giant art project mixing fictional ...

A new senior minister was recently installed at the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn... via cell phone. On the day of his installation ceremony, Rev. Dr. Patrick T. O'Neill found himself in the emergency room with a broken toe. When the ceremony began at 5:00pm, Rev. O'Neill was still hospitalized, so Lee Pardee, president of the congregation's Board of Trustees, called O'Neill ...

Private medical practice is one of the few industries that hasn't been drastically changed by the advent of the Internet. But sometimes, all it takes is one resourceful individual to change how entire an industry utilizes the online space. That's why we'll be keeping a close eye on amateur photographer and Brooklyn, New York-based M.D. Jay Parkinson. Dr. Parkinson opened his own private practice ...