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Three armed suspects reportedly used the subway to commit a multi-borough robbery spree on Thursday, allegedly victimizing four individuals in Brooklyn and Manhattan, the New York Post reported Saturday. The incident began just prior to 8:00 p.m. at the Lafayette Avenue station in downtown Brooklyn, according to law enforcement. Video footage showed the suspects, one wearing a yellow hoodie and yellow shoes, another in what appeared to be a black hoodie and white shoes, and another individual wearing a dark colored hoodie and red shoes. The Post article continued: The masked suspects approached a 33-year-old man on the C train,...

Workers at a "socialist paradise" food co-op in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope say they're tired of being oppressed by their bourgeoisie management and are demanding that they be allowed to unionize, per the New York Post. Daily Wire TV The Park Slope Food Co-op is supposed to be a safe haven from capitalist grocery stores, where member-volunteers can put in a few hours of work a month in exchange for 20% to 40% off the price of "low-cost, environmentally friendly fare." But the co-op also has around 75 employees, who say the realities of the socialist system are...

Next Week (February 24) the Food Coop of Park Slope Brooklyn will having their monthly meeting at Congregation Beth Elohim Social Hall (Garfield Temple) 274 Garfield Pl. at 8th Ave. One issue brought up last month may loom large on the Agenda..Boycotting Israeli Products.

NEW YORK - (KRT) - A prominent Yemeni cleric is suspected of raising money for terrorists at a Muslim charity and several mosques in Brooklyn, it was disclosed yesterday. An FBI agent pulled back the veil on a secret investigation of Sheikh Abdullah Satar at the trial of an associate who is charged with lying about the cleric's activities. The agent, Brian Murphy, said in Brooklyn Federal Court that Satar was under surveillance during a fund-raising swing through Brooklyn in early 2000. At the time, the feds were conducting an investigation into the financing of terrorist groups. After Satar -...

At the Food Co-op, Accused of a Little Too Much Cooperation By DAN BARRY Published: December 11, 2004 THAT sociological marvel known as the Park Slope Food Co-op likes its committees. There is an Inventory Committee, and an Office Committee, and a Saturday Committee, and an Agenda Committee, and coming soon, perhaps, a Committee Committee, dedicated to conjuring even more committees. The many committees lend structure to a cooperative where the 11,600 members are also owners, invested in its success. If you like to shop in the co-op's cumin-spiced confines for those organic bananas, or that to-die-for Canadian cheddar, you...