Articles by: Michael Reicher

After years of debate, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has finally declared the Canal a “Superfund” site. It’s a designation reserved for the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites, and city officials, residents, environmentalists, developers and others are trying to figure out what it will mean for Brooklyn and New York City.

By Mike Reicher

Gang members are using social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to boast about their crimes, make threats and pose in gang colors. And increasingly, law enforcement officials are using sites such as Facebook and MySpace to identify and prosecute gangbangers.