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Water Fight at McCarren Park Pool

by Sabine Heinlein

Local

It’s a steaming hot afternoon in mid-June. At a drinking fountain near the dried-out basin of McCarren Pool in Greenpoint, a dozen kids fight over a narrow jet of water.

Crossing the Line: The Story of Fat Nick

by Jesse Sunenblick

Local

Midway through the rap artist Cassidy’s “I’m a Hustla” video, Nicholas “Fat Nick” Minucci appears for a moment in a street scene, outfitted in a black sweatshirt with a silver crucifix around his neck, looking every bit the part of a gangsta rap groupie.

Race Is On for the Future of Central Brooklyn

by Theodore Hamm

Local

More than a few onlookers have characterized this political season’s most exciting local contest as a battle over race.

Bait & Switch: A View of the Cell Phone Ban, From the Bronx

by Jen Weiss

Local

Lolo wakes up at 5:30 in the morning while the sky is still dark. He jets out of his apartment in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx by 6:30 and hops the 6 train southbound to 125th to catch the 4 train northbound to Mosholu Parkway, getting to his high school in the Bronx by about 7:45. If he gets there any later, the lines outside his school prevent him from landing in his first period class by 8:15. If he’s late, even by a minute, he sits in the lunchroom for the entirety of first period. Three days out of five, Lolo is late for first period.