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CITY NEWS: Friday March 25th marked the anniversary of two tragic fires: the Happy Land Social Club fire in the Bronx and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
_Thieves make off with $5 million in diamond heist in city’s diamond district.
_The City’s Department of Education sent out test prep guides to NYC teachers filled with wrong answers, typos and grammatical mistakes. The first big typo was right on the cover: Mathematics Planning for the Forth Grade. "Tweed has no problem with excessively criticizing teachers for failing to meet its picayune mandates, but then it produces a test prep manual riddled with errors and misspellings," said Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers. " The hypocrisy is stunning."
BROOKLYN BEAT: Brooklyn Rebbe Naftali Halberstam, who continued his father’s efforts to rebuild the Bobov sect of Hasidism that was nearly eradicated by the Holocaust, died on Thursday. The Bobov practice an ecstatic form of Judaism that centers on a religious leader and an individual’s direct relationship with G-d. The sect originated in Galicia, now southeastern Poland.
_ A teenager was stabbed in the stomach by an older man on the Northbound R platform at the Ninth Street subway station in Park Slope. Apparently the two were having an agrument. The teenager was taken to Lutheran Hospital. Read all about it at New York 1.
_Brooklyn receives $1 million to spruce up Fulton Street. Congresswoman Nydia Valazquez was able to secure the money from the Transportation Appropriations Bill and a local developer. Improvements include better lighting, signage, sidewalks, and landscaping. Read all about it at New York 1.
IT’S SATURDAY: The Gallery Players present: "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)." 199 14th Street. 8 p.m. Great for older kids.
_The Brooklyn Philarmonic presents "Kurt Weill Goes Brooklyn" Ute Lemper is vocal soloist. At BAM 30 Lafayette Avenue. Saturday. 8 p.m.
_"Play Without Words," a dance theater piece by Matthew Bourne at BAM. Tonight through Saturday. 8 p.m.
ON SUNDAY: Purim Festival at the Brookyn Lyceum. Sunday March 27th. Music by Golem and Jonathan Bayer. (see hand-picked below).
Catpathia Jenkins and Park Slope resident Louis Rosen perform their song-cycle based on the work of Maya Angelou at Joe’s Pub. Sunday 6 pm.
WORTH TAKING A LOOK: The SECOND GRADE ART SHOW at Starbucks. Seventh Avenue between 1st and Garfield Place. The children’s Romare Bearden-esque cityscape collages will be up all month.
THIS SOUNDS COOL: Mike Nichols answers questions following a screening of "The Graduate" as part of BAM’s "Who’s Afraid of Mike Nichols?" film series. Thursday March 31 at 7 p.m.
HERE/SAY: "They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won’t be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end." ~Jack Kerouac