Life as a Runway: African Style Glows in Brooklyn
A salvaged shipping container may seem an unpromising showcase for cutting-edge style. But not to Hekima Hapa, who set up shop in one of the rectangular spaces scattered throughout the Dekalb Market in Brooklyn on Saturday.
Five days, no charges: Stray bullet victim held ‘captive’ when cops don’t believe her story
Heartbreak: Tayshana Murphy, teenage basketball star, gunned down in case of mistaken identity
Written Erik Badia, Henrick Karoliszyn, Erin Durkin and Barry Paddock
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
A high school basketball star was shot dead inside a Manhattan housing project Sunday in a slaying her family believes was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
Tayshana (Chicken) Murphy, 18, one of the top-rated basketball players in the country, was killed in Harlem’s Grant Houses around 4:10 a.m., police said.
She was trying to outrun a gunman in the fourth-floor hallway of her building, witnesses said. Continue reading
Mothers Of Black Firefighters Killed On 9/11 Fight To Keep Their Sons’ Memories Alive
The years haven’t much eased Irene Smith’s pain. Some days are good, she says. Some less so. But her son, Leon W. Smith Jr., is always on her mind. It was Leon Smith’s dream to become a firefighter, Smith said. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., the family lived right across the street from a firehouse. She said she always knew just where to find her boy. “He knew his calling even then,” she said. Continue reading
Attention New Yorkers: Never patronize Lafayette French Bakery
Unless your a neo-nazi, please boycott this store.
Neighborhood: Manhattan/West Village
26 Greenwich Ave Frnt
New York, NY 10011
(212) 242-7580
Lafayette French Bakery, a pastry shop in New York’s Greenwich Village, started selling “Drunken Negro Face” cookies on Martin Luther King Day in ‘honor’ of President Obama.
One customer told My Fox NY that store owner Ted Kefalinos said to her, “Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They’re in honor of our new president. He’s following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his.”
Kefalinos spoke with Gothamist, and denied suggesting that Obama would be assassinated. However, he saw nothing wrong with the cookies themselves.
Later, he apologized to the New York Daily News.
“I’m sorry that people were offended by the cookie. We were just trying to make a large number of people happy, and instead we made a large number of people confused and angry.”
In a followup interview with My Fox NY, Kefalinos said he had been getting death threats over the cookies. Watch:
***UPDATE***
It appears that this racist pig has had so many threats from people that his phone is ringing off the hook. Instead of that arogant smirk he had in the previous clip, he now has a look of fear on his face because he knows his much beloved bakery will be out of buisness within in month. See this is why I love New Yorkers. They do not fu*k around. I love being liberal, I love NYC, and I love my white brothers and sisters who live there who always keeps it real!
Watch this sorry sack of dough attempt a real apology this time.
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‘Red Hook High’: The Anti-’Gossip Girl’
Watch a few episodes of “Gossip Girl” or “Laguna Beach: The Real OC,” and you’d think high school was all about sex at your parents’ summer home, going to galas and getting wasted while looking like an Abercrombie and Fitch model, not the “Before” kid in a Clearasil ad.
“Red Hook High” may be the antidote to all that. Instead of stick-thin blondes toting $3,500 Hermes bags, there are black boys toting bags of drugs. Instead of postcard-perfect mansions and cityscapes, there are cramped apartments and construction zones. 
Part drama, part documentary, “Red Hook High,” a new pilot that premiered at the New York Television Festival (NYTVF) this week, shows a high school experience few network and cable series touch on, one that unfolds in a gritty Brooklyn community among teens with the odds stacked against them. Forget prom queens and valedictorians. “Red Hook High’s” stars include a budding drug dealer, an emerging gay crusader and a possibly pregnant teen.
“It’s the opposite of ‘Gossip Girl,’” said director Trac Minh Vu. “It’s not a glossy Hollywood fashion show. There are probably people who actually live lives like what is portrayed on ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘The OC.’ But they’re fantasy shows. They’re about showcasing high fashion and the small population of people who can live like that.” Continue reading
Never thought I’d see the day , a jewish nazi…
Orchard Street designer and lifestyle racist Doron Braunshtein (aka Apollo Braun) is at it again; in March he launched his “Who Killed Obama?” t-shirt and now he’s added a new political statement to his line: the $250 “Jews Against Obama” t-shirt.
And that’s not the only provocation: Braunshtein also started what he calls a “political movement” as a cute, must-have accessory to the T. His recruitment efforts have gone through his mailing list, Facebook and Myspace.
As with his last design, he explains that he’s “selling an idea” that will one day hang “in the greatest museums and galleries in the city.” He also wants you all to know how he really feels about Obama, in case it wasn’t clear…click HERE to see the whole story…..
The Apollo Braun is scary enough, but this guy needs lots of therapy
Compulsive NYC subway groper could get life
NEW YORK – About two weeks after he was released from prison, Freddie Johnson was arrested on charges of illegally rubbing up against a woman on a crowded Manhattan subway train.
It is a fairly common crime in New York. But this was no common criminal.
Johnson has been arrested a staggering 53 times — the majority for allegedly groping women on subway trains.
In his latest arrest, Johnson was being followed by plainclothes officers who recognized him from police photos. He was charged with persistent sexual abuse, and if convicted this time he could be sent away for life. Continue reading