Wednesday, August 26, 2015

This is how the "Dust Lady" from 9/11 should be remembered.


-Washington Post

When the World Trade Center’s South Tower collapsed, just before 10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, photographer Stan Honda was in lower Manhattan, taking pictures of the incomprehensible scene.

“There was a giant roar, like a train, and between the buildings I could see huge clouds of smoke and dust billowing out,” Honda recounted years later.

He ducked into a building lobby, where “a police officer was pulling people into the entrance to get them out of the danger.”

“A woman came in completely covered in gray dust,” Honda recalled in 2011. “You could tell she was nicely dressed for work and for a second she stood in the lobby. I took one shot of her before the police officer started to direct people up a set of stairs, thinking it would be safer off the ground level.”

The woman turned out to be Marcy Borders, who had only recently begun working for Bank of America in the World Trade Center when the first plane struck.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Biking fun on the Coney Island Boardwalk

7 wounded in 4 Brooklyn #shootings; Boy, 17, clings to life

A 17-year-old boy was critically wounded just after 2:40 a.m. Sunday in Bushwick, where he was shot repeatedly in the torso during an argument with his assailant on Cooper St. The boy is clinging to life at Kings County Hospital.7 wounded in 4 Brooklyn shootings; Boy, 17, clings to life - NY Daily New

'A 17-year-old boy was clinging to life after being shot during an argument in Brooklyn early Sunday, police said.

The boy, identified by relatives as Steven Alexander, was shot repeatedly in the midsection during a dispute on Cooper St. in Bushwick just after 2:40 a.m. on Sunday, authorities said.'

Boyfriend charged in death of girlfriend who fell out of car


Wahlburgers opening soon in Coney Island


#Wahlburgers opening soon in Coney Island.
Posted by Brooklyn Views on Sunday, August 23, 2015