Friends and Family #64No Sleep Till Brooklyn #4

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Brooklyn -- The body of reputed Mafia boss Carmine Galante, covered with a tablecloth, lies on the ground of a Brooklyn restaurant as a homicide detective looks over Galante's last meal. The underworld kingpin and an associate were shot here July 12 as they ate lunch, killed by four unidentified gunmen with automatic weapons. (1979)

No Sleep Till Brooklyn #3

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Brooklyn -- A taxi sends up a big bow wave and leaves a wake of spray as it shoots through a flooded street at Atlantic and Grand Avenues, as the tail of Hurricane Carol sideswiped the city this morning. The traffic light serves as a lighthouse for the sea-going traffic. The eye of the hurricane passed over Montauk Point, L.I. The east end of the island reported downed trees and power lines, as well as abnormally high tides, but no serious property damage. (1954)

No Sleep Till Brooklyn #2

Original Caption:

Computer's a Tutor.

Brooklyn -- Students at Brooklyn's P.S. 244 receive individualized instruction in arithmetic from a computer located several miles away in Manhattan. Beginning this fall the computer based system, with 200 units in 15 of the city's elementary schools, will add reading and spelling instruction to its program for some 6,000 pupils. After school hours, the computer (an RCA Spectra 70) serves various remedial and adult education programs and handles administrative data processing for New York City's Board of Education. (1968)

No Sleep Till Brooklyn #1

Original Caption:

Brooklyn -- A Stop sign is dwarfed by the tail section of a wrecked United Airlines DC-8 Jet that crashed into a residential section of Brooklyn following a mid-air collision. The second aircraft, a Trans-World Airlines Super Constellation, fell to earth in a field in Staten Island. At least 131 persons died in the disaster, the worst in the history of aviation. (1960)