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1 week agoBrooklyn Duo Busted on Route 79 as Ithaca Cops Haul In 3 Pounds of Meth
Two Brooklyn men face felony charges after a traffic stop led to a major drug bust in Ithaca, seizing methamphetamine and cocaine.
Within a few blocks: 212 Cascadilla St. was the birthplace of "Roots" author Alex Haley and the childhood home of Tuskegee Airman Verdelle Louis Payne; the idea for Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's first Black fraternity, was hatched at 421 N. Albany St.; and Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, lived upstairs at 513 N. Albany St. during the first year of her master's program at Cornell.