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Sonja Sharp

Reporter/Producer @sovietsonja Contact

Sonja Sharp is a reporter/producer for DNAinfo.

Before joining DNAinfo, Sonja ran a hyperlocal news site in the working-class suburbs of Oakland, Calif., where she produced investigative series while hanging out with ex-gang-banger urban farmers and pregnant 14-year-olds.

Sonja got her start in journalism covering crime for U.C. Berkeley’s award-winning Daily Californian. She moved to New York City after graduating with a degree in History and Spanish Literature in 2008, reporting Brooklyn for the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Queens for the Daily News. Her stories of kibbitzing with Yiddish-speaking hipsters, poring over Nigerian gossip rags in Queens, braving toilets at JFK’s Central Taxi Hold and downing shots of 192-proof liquor with Lubavitchers in Brooklyn have also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Post, the Huffington Post and Mother Jones magazine.

Sonja lives with her husband, a mad scientist and entrepreneur, in Crown Heights.

Fun Fact: While living in a commune in Berkeley, Sonja rocked coveralls and used a diamond-tipped buzzsaw while making experimental pavement for the California Transportation Authority.

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September 26, 2013

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the mistake might be attributable to a "bureaucratic error."

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September 26, 2013

Scores of longtime homeowners oppose plans to build apartments for the mentally ill on their block.

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September 26, 2013

The father of the Brooklyn boy who drowned on a class trip has been called repeatedly.

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September 24, 2013

Investigators found no wrongdoing in the death of Jean Fritz Pierre on a school trip to Bear Mountain.

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September 24, 2013

Hullaboo bookstore's nonfiction series is the newest addition to Crown Heights' booming literary scene.

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September 23, 2013

Franklin Ave. residents want more and better trash cans, but officials say that won't help.

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September 20, 2013

Brooklyn Public Library's Central Branch unveiled a $250,000 replica of its original entrance Thursday.

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September 19, 2013

More than 1,200 petitioners have added their names to an online campaign for the now-defunct department