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.
Goodbye Pay Phones, Hello Wi-Fi Kiosks Read MoreBy 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 an early December morning …
Frats at Baruch Hazed by Students Read MoreBy 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 of a Chelsea resident. …
Cold Murder Case Gets A Bit Warmer Read MoreBy 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 in a press conference …
East Harlem Church Awaits Revered Visitor Read MoreBy 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 wound up and fired …
Bronx Bombers, Little League Style Read MoreBy 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 see the unveiling of …
‘Adam’ Is the Apple of Museumgoers’ Eye Read More