News and features from CUNY's undergraduate student journalists
Posts from the “Brooklyn News Service” a publication of Brooklyn College.
Goodbye payphones, hello Wi-Fi pockets. New York City is giving dated pay phones a facelift by transforming them into kiosks for free Wi-Fi. Mayor de Blasio announced LinkNYC on Thursday after testing one of them on Third Avenue.
Read Morehttp://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/frats-at-baruch-hazed-by-students/As seen in http://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/ By ILYA KEGEN There is a price to pay for being accepted into a group; sometimes it is with one’s life. This was the case on …
Read Morehttp://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/cold-murder-case-gets-a-bit-warmer/As seen in http://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/ By CATCHCHA RICHARDS Accused killer Gordon Francis, 57, made a court appearance on Thursday for a hearing on second-degree murder charges in the 1993 stabbing death …
Read Morehttp://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/east-harlem-church-awaits-revered-visitor/As seen in http://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/ By ALEXANDRA SEMENOVA Msgr. Kevin Sullivan introduced a group of both undocumented and legal immigrants who left their homes to seek asylum from poverty and persecution …
Read Morehttp://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/bronx-bombers-little-league-style/As seen in http://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/ By SAMUEL STERN Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr stepped to the mound as the catcher for the Kingsbridge Knights set up behind the plate. Diaz …
Read Morehttp://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/adam-is-the-apple-of-museumgoers-eye/As seen in http://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/ By JENNIFER SZULMAN New life was breathed into Tullio Lombardo’s 15th century sculpture, Adam, on Tuesday as crowds gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to …
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