Monday Dec. 28, Our World In Pictures
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Santa and Elves Deliver Toys: Trading his sleigh for FDNY Ladder 214/Engine 111, Santa and his elves arrived at Interfaith Medical Center’s Winter Wonderland to distribute holiday gifts to 400 preschoolers and kindergarteners — ages 3 to 5 — from five community schools. Kids from P.S. 243, P.S. 93, the Brooklyn Brownstone School, Medgar Evers Daycare Center and Community Parents Head Start received Barbies, Frozen and Sofia the First dolls, Hot Wheels racing car sets, Star Wars toys and Spiderman super heroes. The event was funded by private donations.
ALABAMA — Man Carried Through Flood: Emergency officials transport James Simmons by boat as water over Byler Road prevented them from reaching him by car in Moulton on Friday. They then loaded him into an ambulance. Unseasonably warm weather helped spawn severe storms Friday in the Southeast, which left dozens of families homeless by Christmas.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.