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McCarren Park Murals. Photo by jdefoore.
City Schools See Little Progress on National Test Scores [NY Times]
ACORN Tries to Oust Bushwick Principal [NY Daily News]
Port Authority Talks Toll Hikes [NY Post]
P. Heights Store Set on Fire [NY Post]
Brooklyn Bridge Park Stalled [Brooklyn Eagle]
5th Ave. Botanica Torched [Gowanus Lounge]
Freebird Re-Opens [A Brooklyn Life]

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Click the Prospect Heights link for the Post.
After the short article, look at "sponsored links".

Some real twisted irony there.

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 8:14 AM

Botanica Torched on Park Slope's Fifth Aven

So thats what happen!!!! I was around there last night. Shit looks like a war zone!!

The What

Hanging in the slope!!!

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 8:43 AM

4 horseman

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 8:45 AM

"142 Fifth Ave. in Prospect Heights..."

Hah.

/me sets up lawn chair.

Posted by: jeffrey at November 16, 2007 9:51 AM

No one found them because they walked back up St. Johns street and sat back down at their stoops.

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 10:30 AM

This is like a bad cop show. Who owns the property? Is it likely that it wasn't a robbery attempt at all, but a way to cover up burning out a non-gentrified tenant? The fact that it's next to a place that claims to repair electronics and looks for all the world like a classic 1970s fence operation is even better. Thank god no one was seriously hurt, but arson is lowest. Those poor firemen get thrown into danger and injury for no good reason.

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 10:38 AM

whats that spermatozoa soccer ball ?

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 10:55 AM

my guess is the owner slipped some neighborhood kids a few bucks to torch the place so they could collect the insurance money.

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 11:08 AM

10:30. I really hope you read this. I live on that block of St. John's. Why would assume that the arsonist/robbers come from this block? Because a good portion of the block is Black maybe? Yes, kids do hang out on the stoops and there is the occasional funny cigarette smell, but this is a great block with great people on it.

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 11:14 AM

11:14, which block? I don't remember pointing out any avenues or specific addresses. Did I say anything about race? I could have named any street name in brooklyn, and good portion of it's residents would have been black. You've made a tremdous and race-baiting leap to join:
1. a suggestion that the people who did it were local
2. the name of the cross street where the store was (that runs for many blocks throughout brooklyn)as the likley escape route
3. with your own assumptions that anyone who names your street while discussing a horrific crime is pointing out your specific block and specifically the black people who live on it.

Race tension is high in Park Slope, and New York, but come on...

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 11:42 AM

Don't you get it?!?!

11:14 DID IT and is trying to throw us off the trail!!!!

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 1:01 PM

Actually I did it. It wasn't a firebomb. Just too many tacos. Excuse me.

Posted by: guest at November 16, 2007 1:42 PM