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Brooklyn Judge Spares Corrupt Cop From Clink

Detective Who Framed Innocent Couple Begs Judge Not to Send Him to Jail 

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin L. ReichbachJAY STREET — A Brooklyn NYPD officer who was convicted of planting crack cocaine on an innocent couple begged the judge to not send him to prison. And Kings County Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach agreed. 
 

Homebuilders See Stable Housing Market Ahead

By Alex Veiga
Associated Press
 
NEW YORK — The CEOs of some of the nation’s biggest homebuilding companies said yesterday that they feel the housing market has stabilized.
 
But they were careful not to be overly optimistic even with the spring home-selling season coming up. A year ago many housing experts forecast housing would begin recovering in 2011, only to see it play out as the worst year for new home sales on records going back a half-century.
 
Executives at PulteGroup Inc., MDC Holdings Inc., M/I Homes Inc. and Beazer Homes USA Inc. weighed in on the housing market after their companies reported financial results for October to December.
 

Overtaxed Co-op Owners in NYC Get More Time To Contest Their Assessments

NEW YORK — Last month, City Councilmember Dan Halloran (R-Queens) called on the city to give overtaxed co-op owners an extension to contest their assessments. 
 
On Friday, the city responded. The Tax Commission has announced it will give Tax Class 2 homeowners, a class that includes cooperatives, until March 6 to contest their assessments, an extension of five days from the original March 1 deadline. 
 

In Bay Ridge, Stability Is Name Of the Game

By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
 
BAY RIDGE — Looking at statistics for Community District 10, which covers Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton and Dyker Heights (sometimes collectively called “Greater Bay Ridge”), one is struck by the amount of stability.
 
The area clearly has good numbers in terms of income, health, housing and employment. And comparing figures from 2007–09 to figures from 2000 shows that these numbers have been consistent.
 
The greatest visible changes are an increase in the Asian population, which grew from 12.8 percent to 19.2 percent, and a slight decline in the white population, from 69 to 66 percent.
 

House of Detention—From the Inside

AP Photo
Warden Walter Nin, right, warden for the Brooklyn Detention Complex, and Assistant Deputy Warden Yvonne Jackson lead a media tour of the facility on Friday. The 759-bed jail on Atlantic Avenue was shuttered in 2003 because of budget cuts, but is scheduled to reopen next week and reduce the burden of the Rikers Island jail. A community tour is scheduled to be given on Saturday.

Brooklyn Psych Hospital To Close

Kingsboro Psychiatric Hospital in Flatbush will soon close its facility and consolidate with the South Beach Psychiatric Center in Staten Island, silive.com reports. The closure of Kingsboro was recommended by the state Health Department’s Brooklyn Task Force but was strongly protested by union members and advocates for the mentally ill. Some Brooklyn patients may not want to go to Staten Island and won’t get the treatment they need, silive.com quotes a spokeswoman for the New York State Public Employees Federation as saying.

Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish Magazine Publishes Porno Ad, Probably by Mistake

The Orthodox Jewish glossy magazine Haolam Hacharedi has been pulled from store shelves and newsstands across Brooklyn after it published a pornographic ad, reports the website Failed Messiah, which speculates the ad was published by mistake. Failed Messiah provides a partial photo of some text from the ad.
 
The incident raises interesting questions about where the ad came from and how it found its way into a magazine so Orthodox that women would never be pictured, clothed or not.

Why Brooklyn Borough Hall Is Blue

AP PhotoHave you noticed that everything is blue in New York lately? Brooklyn Borough Hall will join in the city’s New York Giants mania by bathing itself in blue spotlights tonight through Monday. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz ordered the blue lights as the city’s eyes turn towards the Giants’ big moment against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI.
 
-- Mary Frost

Long-Inactive Verrazano Tollbooths Finally Meet Their End

Photo by MTA/Patrick Cashin

On the night of Feb. 1, the last remaining long-decommissioned eastbound tollbooths at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge were torn down. In the 1980s, eastbound tolls on the Verrazano were eliminated as a favor to Staten Island politicians who wanted a toll-free ride into Brooklyn and Manhattan for their constituents who commuted to work by car.

No Jail Time For Cop Who Planted Drugs on Coney Island Couple

Arbeeny Begs Judge; Gets Probation

BROOKLYN (AP) — A former New York City detective who was convicted of planting drugs on two people has been sentenced to probation after asking a judge not to send him to jail.

Jason Arbeeny told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach that he couldn’t look himself in the mirror anymore. He then said to the judge, ”Please sir, I’m begging you, don’t send me to jail.” He also apologized to the victims.

Reichbach said he came to court Thursday thinking the crime required a sentence of jail time.

But he said Arbeeny’s pleas got to him. He sentenced the 14-year police veteran to five years’ probation and 300 hours of community service.

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