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It's Brooklyn-Queens Day (aka Anniversary Day)
Besides being Thursday, today is Brooklyn-Queens Day, which is also known as Anniversary Day, and NYC public school children have the day off (that's why you may see more kids than usual). The day originally celebrated the founding of the first Sunday School on Long Island. Really. According to the Queens Public Library:
Brooklyn-Queens Day originated as a Protestant holiday celebrated in the City of Brooklyn in 1829. Back then it was known, and fondly remembered by some, as Anniversary Day. Anniversary Day is celebrated annually on the first Thursday in June, commemorating the founding of the First Sunday School on Long Island. The first parade was held in Brooklyn June 1829. The New York State Legislature enacted, in 1959 at the request of the Queens Federation of Churches, the bill permitting the schools in both Kings and Queens Counties to be closed on this day. It was signed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.Now all students in all NYC counties get the day off, while their teachers must endure Chancellor's Conference Day. Teacher "Miss Eyre" at NYC Educator thinks about her students, "My dollbabies will undoubtedly be celebrating by sleeping late; catching up on Degrassi, Maury Povich, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare; and, I hope to God, finishing their social studies exit projects. Somehow I doubt that any of them will be commemorating the vital role that Sunday School, Brooklyn, or Queens has played in their lives. I suppose that's all right. If I were at home, I probably wouldn't be doing any of those things either."
Five People Shot on Boardwalk in Brighton Beach
Two of the victims are badly wounded, the authorities said.
The shooting took place around 5:20 p.m. on the boardwalk near Brighton Sixth Street, the Fire Department said.
The shooting unfolded on a day when a mini-heat wave and a school holiday sent hordes of people to Coney Island and Brighton Beaches, which were teeming with beachgoers — many of them teenagers — trying to escape temperatures approaching 100 degrees.
Saya Suzuki, 30, was just about to sit down inside a boardwalk restaurant with her six-year-old daughter, Sonya, when the shooting began just outside. Ms. Suzuki said she heard about six shots, then grabbed her daughter and saw two teenagers run by her.
“I just picked up my daughter and got away from the bullets,” she said. “It happened so quickly and I had to protect my daughter.”
As the police roped off the scene and combed the boardwalk, Ms. Suzuki, still terrified, stayed in the restaurant for two hours waiting for her husband. She said she had noticed other incidents earlier in the day that worried her.
“I think some gang things were happening because we heard some shots one hour earlier,” she said.
The two most seriously injured people, a man and a woman, were taken to Coney Island Hospital, where they are in critical condition, the Fire Department said. A second man, whose condition was not available, was also taken to Coney Island Hospital, the department said.
A fourth victim, a man, was in serious condition at Lutheran Medical Center, the Fire Department said. A fifth victim’s injuries were not life threatening, the police said.
There have been no arrests, the police said.
One dead, four others wounded in Brooklyn boardwalk shooting
(Reuters) - A woman was killed and four men were shot on Thursday afternoon when bullets starting flying on a popular Brooklyn beach boardwalk, police said.
The Brighton Beach boardwalk, just east of the famed Coney Island beach and amusement area, was packed with youths on the annual Brooklyn-Queens Day, a day off from school for students in the city's five boroughs.
Five people were shot on the boardwalk, including one woman who later died, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said. One was listed in critical condition and the injuries to the other three were not considered life threatening, he added.
Browne said two people fired into crowds on the boardwalk from the beach. It had not yet been determined whether the victims were the intended targets or bystanders, and the investigation was ongoing, Browne said.
Two people were being questioned but had not been named as suspects.
The victims were believed to be in their late teens or 20s, Browne said, but initial identification was difficult because most had been brought to area hospitals wearing only swimsuits.
Temperatures in New York City reached 95 degrees on Thursday, making beaches a big draw on a school day off.
Brighton Beach is a popular city beach destination just east of Coney Island and easily reachable by subway. The area is home to a large, growing Russian immigrant community.
The Brighton Beach boardwalk, just east of the famed Coney Island beach and amusement area, was packed with youths on the annual Brooklyn-Queens Day, a day off from school for students in the city's five boroughs.
Five people were shot on the boardwalk, including one woman who later died, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said. One was listed in critical condition and the injuries to the other three were not considered life threatening, he added.
Browne said two people fired into crowds on the boardwalk from the beach. It had not yet been determined whether the victims were the intended targets or bystanders, and the investigation was ongoing, Browne said.
Two people were being questioned but had not been named as suspects.
The victims were believed to be in their late teens or 20s, Browne said, but initial identification was difficult because most had been brought to area hospitals wearing only swimsuits.
Temperatures in New York City reached 95 degrees on Thursday, making beaches a big draw on a school day off.
Brighton Beach is a popular city beach destination just east of Coney Island and easily reachable by subway. The area is home to a large, growing Russian immigrant community.
1 Dead, 4 Injured In Brighton Beach Boardwalk Shooting (Video)
shooting broke out on the boardwalk at Brighton Beach around 5:20 p.m., injuring four men and one woman, who later died. With public schools closed for Brooklyn-Queens Day and the weather conditions sweltering, the beach was packed. A police source pointed to empty malt liquor bottles and told the Post, "It’s a bad combination of guns, heat, beer and angry young men."
It seems that a feud broke out between two groups, creating a chaotic scene. According to the Daily News, "One man used an umbrella to crack another man in the head, as the fight erupted near Brighton 6th St. about 5:20 p.m. Then a gunman squeezed off about eight rounds into a crowd." Bystanders took cover and rushed into restaurants and other businesses. Here's video after the shooting:
On Twitter, djslicknick wrote, “Just watched some idiot kid let off 8 rounds into a crowded beach. Some people have no sense. I'm never going to Brighton beach again," and then added, "yeah I saw like 4 ambulances... I saw the kid let off the shots.. It was a madhouse I just got on the train." Later, he Tweeted, "yoooo detectives showed up to my house this is nuts!!!" "I'm kinda nervous right now the detectives are taking me to their precinct in bk" and finally replied to another person "I have nothing to snitch about I don't know anyone."
Police say that two people fired shots into the crowd and two people were being questioned. It's unclear if the victims were the intended targets (the News suggests at least two were bystanders)—beyond the female victim who died, a male victim is in critical condition while the three other male victims did not have life-threatening injuries.Thursday, 23 June 2011
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