he made the argument that the brookland should have never been a part of new york city. we nurture the views. i find it hard to be that it wouldn't be a problem if brookland were its own city it would still be a problem. there are very few cities in the advanced economies where we are seeking a lot of justification how to deal with this problem if more people wanting to live in the cities with places to house them. there are now waiting times i think the waiting list in stockholm went up by 40%. and it's true in amsterdam and berlin and of course in san francisco which is one of the worst places i think they passed the law in about 1960 that would be given a permit for this affordable housing. the way that i try to approach this problem isn't to simply say more building because that could relieve some of the problem but i think what we are learning is that people feel a certain attachment to a place. the need for a vibrant new city is a question that i think it's probably going to have to be dealt with case by case speed to the book the race wars we think about the schoo

in my part of brookland it really was kind of from the ground up. it was people like me moving in and finding ways to renovate their homes that was certainly not planned. however, there has been more planning going in as i think both the city officials and developers begin to realize what was happening. it took a while by the way. one thing that the city did in the '90s was to give money or put a lot of money into the brooklyn navy yard. it was a very sad shadow of its former self. the buildings were in terrible disrepair the elevators didn't work. nobody could do business there really they decided to upgrade the infrastructure this was under julie and anna takes a little while but by the late '90s they were full. they were full and part because in part because of the grassroots thing happening in williamsburg. nearby creative communities. you have lots of young people who are interested it was a synergy in cases like that. there has been as many of you probably know the zoning drama and brookland particularly in williamsburg which i described a bit

adams morgan location, along with the kitchens at two other area restaurants: meridian pint and brookland pint. an update now on the story of a missing teen in fairfax county. 17-year-old is back home this morning. detective say she ran away on january 15th. the case took a dark turn when the body of one of her friends was found near springfield. police say they are still trying to figure out where venus has been and who she was with. new this morning, a german shepherd named rumor is the big winner at the westminster dog show in new york. rumor was clearly the crowd favorite. she's from wisconsin.. and is the second german shepherd to win the event that began in 18-77. rumor competed in the show last year, and was favored to win.. but lost to a german shorthaired pointer. nearly 28-hundred dogs from 202 eligible breeds competed in this year's show. rumor is five-years-old. she's named after the adele song, "rumor has it." good morning washington wants to upgrade your mug this week. it's really simple-- all you have to do is take a picture of yourself watching g-m-w with your current mug,

judge released him the next day pending a hearing. 6 days later, smith struck again this time at brookland metro station in broad daylight. >> reporter: victim says when he tried to push smith back, smith knocked him in the face and pushed him down on the platform, and then he punched him several more times. r arrested, and he was ged with a misdemeanor assault, again released. on january 18th, police watched smith pull a knife on an employee as the staffer tried to remove him from a bar. he was arrested again. this time a judge ordered smith held in dc jail pending trial, and he is facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon and as much as 10 years in jail if the jury decides he has used all his second chances in washington, i'm garrett haake, wusa 9. >>> there's a mixed bag when it comes to crime on metro. we got new information to share with you tonight. the transit agency says overall, serious crime dropped 5% last year, but certain violent crimes were up, and aggravated assault rose 21%. armed robbery up 6 percent, and five homicides up last year, and five rapes compared to none th

police are offering a reward now for any information about a deadly shooting this morning in brooklandsponders found a victim here at the corner of 15th and irving streets here in northeast. they say the victim was already dead when they got to the scene around 1:45 this morning. we're working to learn more about the victim and what led up to the shooting. police are offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. >>> a teenager was stabbed more than 40 times in gaithersburg last summer. his body was found in malcom k a 19-year-old girl lured him to his death by promising sex in that park. instead three gang members were waiting to kill him. that fourth suspect was picked up this month and charged with murder. >>> in news for your health, three million americans most likely have glaucoma but a lot of them don't realize they have it and that could be dangerous. untreated glaucoma could lead to blindness. later a device you could hardly even see is being used to treat the disease with a lot of success. >> reporter: this is the smallest implantable medical device in the wo

in fact, brookland was actually losing population. years later, the writer who grew up in working-class park slope with say about this time, you heard it over and over and those days. we got a get out of brooklyn. you know it, a lot of people did. so, the question i had had a my mind as i approach this book was, how busy old brooklyn becomes the new brooklyn. the playset gq magazine called that i still can't read this without laughing, the the coolest city on the planet. how is it that what i moved there like it stores have bulletproof cages to protect their case shears and they now have picture windows and free testings of their expansive and expensive pinot noir selections. . . and one final question. why should anyone care what happened to brooklyn? the place isn't even a city, it's a borough, it has 2,600,000 people in a city of 8 million, and a country of 330 million. what is the big deal? but i try to show in book is the reason we should be interested is that brooklyn is a microcosm for the vast economic and social changes that'

in brookland, the crime rate and the teen pregnancy rates have dropped. and attendance at ben franklin is up. when i asked the students what they liked about the school, they said, "we feel like someone cares now. and everyone is positive." at both these schools -- samuel taylor and ben franklin c -- the principal told me the community schools' model allowed them to form partnerships that meet the needs of the students' lives so they could focus on delivering a high-quality education. and because the students' needs are being met more comprehensively the students can focus on learning. and because you have a team outside of the teachers who's helping provide some services to these kids, the teachers can focus on teaching. its importance for us to understand that every child who walks through the school has a unique family circumstance and their own individual needs. the community school approach emphasizes the fact that no school is an island into itself. every school is part of a neighborhood, and we need to understand the special circumstances of the ch