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The Week in Quotes

Rewind, and catch what made the headlines this week on Bed-Stuy Patch

Catch up on what made the headlines this week, in the words of the people who said it best!

“This place has too much trash!”

-- A sanitation worker outside the Lafayette Gardens housing complex on how the growing wastefulness in the neighborhood is not sustainable.

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“I have to have these people trust me to come to me and say, ‘listen, I got fired from this job; I really don’t want to share this...’”

--Willie Sanchez, job developer, on the need for his clients to be honest about their work history on their resumes

"We haven't told the baby yet,"

--Lydia Goodman, sister of murder victim Rashad Baucom-Slaughter, worries about how her family is going to break the news to her slain brother’s young son

23-Year-Old Father Gunned Down in Brevoort Houses

 

“I actually teared up when I took the first bite.”

--BSP Food Writer Gwen Ruelle, on the Gnocchi at a new restaurant on Bedford Avenue called Sud

The Best Gnocchi I've Ever Had

 

“I’ve definitely confused a lot of people. All three of my albums are completely different: One week, I’ll be in a club wearing a fitted Yankees hats; three weeks later, I’ll be at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis.”

--Jazz vocalist Jose James on why he avoids labels of himself and his music


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