DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The city’s Workforce1 career centers, including the Brooklyn center at 9 Bond Street, have placed New Yorkers in 20,000 jobs since the beginning of this year, up 42 percent from {read more...}

With losses in their first two games and a visit from winless Canisius looming Saturday afternoon on Remsen Street, the St. Francis men’s basketball team did provide some good news for its fan base yesterday.

Coach Brian Nash announced that the Terriers have signed 6-foot-6 power forward Mike Glover to a national letter of {read more...}

Brooklyn HealthWorks, the Chamber’s low-cost health insurance plan for small businesses, selected (after a competitive review process) Guardian Life Insurance Company of {read more...}

By Dan Elliott
Associated Press

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Fort Carson paid somber tribute Wednesday to 15 of its soldiers killed in Afghanistan last month, the worst single month for combat deaths the post has endured since {read more...}

JAY STREET — When long-serving court attorney Kerry Ward was summoned to the administrative judge’s chambers on the top floor of Brooklyn Supreme Court, this hard worker said she expected to be asked about “a problem case.”

But Ward wasn’t being asked to use her legal expertise to help with a case. In fact, she was informed that she had been chosen as Brooklyn Supreme Court Employee of the Year. And she said she hasn’t stopped blushing {read more...}

After handling a motion in her courtroom, Justice Dowling explained to the {read more...}

The Brooklyn Bar Association, led this year by dynamic President John Lonuzzi, has singled out a number of legal luminaries who will certainly enliven the proceedings when the BBA holds it big Annual Dinner on Dec. 7 at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott on Adams Street.

Recipients of the BBA’s coveted Annual Award are Kings {read more...}

A co-worker has been calling in sick a lot and confided in me that her husband is physically abusive, but she doesn’t want to have him arrested. Is there somewhere that she can get help?

I saw firsthand what domestic violence did to my mother and our family. As a {read more...}

When Tierney expressed an interest in an acting career after her society debut, her father formed a family owned corporation, Belle-Tier, to develop, promote and exploit her untried talent. (He sued his daughter for breach of contract in the early 1940s — followed shortly by a divorce from Mrs. Tierney.)

Exquisitely etched {read more...}

Named after the Dutch {read more...}

It is a small but homogeneous community composed almost entirely of mid-19th-century row houses. This area, located south of Fulton Street and west of Flatbush Avenue, began to {read more...}

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — After years of fighting lawsuits filed in opposition to his multibillion dollar Atlantic Yards project, developer Bruce Ratner continues to get pounded by waves of litigation.

Another lawsuit was filed Thursday, making it the third in less than 40 days. But if landowners facing eviction win their biggest legal battle, which will possibly be decided next week, then these lawsuits will be mostly moot.

This latest lawsuit, which challenges the project’s app-roval process, comes at a time when both sides of the legal controversy are eagerly awaiting the state’s high court to rule on the most important issue of all the cases — whether {read more...}

By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BUSHWICK — An art show featuring works by local Brooklyn artists and titled “SmART,” helped kick off sales at a Bushwick condominium development last weekend.

The new four-story eight-unit building at 326 Melrose St., between Knickerbocker and Wilson avenues, took advantage of what some are calling the “burgeoning arts communities” in two neighborhoods, Bushwick and East Williamsburg.

The featured works at the new building were by artists Avani Patel, Dominic Albo, {read more...}

The Boerum Hill illustrator’s in-progress graphic novel, Part-Time Dog, didn’t begin as a dog-filled story, but it has grown to include about 60 canine characters. He has drawn about half that amount so far.

Seltzer, who as an artist counts The New York Times among his clients, started an online newsletter for the project, as suggested to him by a friend. In this way he has solicited dozens of digital {read more...}

By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

NEW YORK — Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein released this week the third annual public school Progress Reports for New York City high schools. Overall, 75 percent of {read more...}

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody
Associated Press And Eagle Staff

Smooth-chrooner Norah Jones recently made waves in Brooklyn — however localized they may be — for her plan to add 10 windows into the windowless side wall of the brownstone she purchased on Amity Street in January.

The proposed windows ruffled the feathers of Richard Moore, president of the board of the four-family co-op next door, which the windows would face, but yesterday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, who first {read more...}

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN -- New York City College of Technology (City Tech)/CUNY recently won several competitive federal grants, totaling close to $3 million.

The college was awarded $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF), $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), $514,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and $173,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

“We’re making a splash on the national stage,” says City Tech Director {read more...}

© Brooklyn Daily Eagle 2009 All materials posted on BrooklynEagle.com are protected by United States copyright law. Just a reminder, though -- It’s not considered polite to paste the entire {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE – Ranked by the NYPD as Brooklyn South’s safest neighborhood, the 68th Precinct serving Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights and its commanding officer gave thanks to its cops this week.

“We’re {read more...}

ART 101: 101 Grand St., between Berry St. and Wythe Ave., Williamsburg. (718) 302-2242 or www.art101brooklyn.com.
Dennis Tomkins: New Paintings. Through Nov. 28.

BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000 or www.brooklynmuseum.org.
“Who Shot Rock & Roll, A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present.” Through Jan. 31. An exhibition of more than 175 works by 105 photographers, including many rare and never-before-exhibited photographs, that gave the music its visual {read more...}

By Caitlin McNamara

The tale of Rezso Kasztner’s rescue of a concentration camp-bound train — a Schindler’s List-esque story of Jewish lives saved during the Holocaust — is one that has, oddly enough, been all but erased from history. Although he is credited with saving more lives than Schindler, Kasztner’s name, {read more...}

By Phoebe Neidl
Brooklyn Eagle

RED HOOK — When Ian Cheney inherited his grandfather’s ’86 Dodge pickup truck seven years ago, little did he know that the weather-worn vehicle would be at the center of one of his documentary film projects. But after the New England native moved to Brooklyn, the truck became much more than a truck. Against all odds, it became a miniature urban farm.

“I soon realized the truck was the only {read more...}

They’ve been the top two teams in the Public School Athletic League Championship Division football standings virtually all season.

But if the top-ranked Fort Hamilton Tigers and No. 2 Erasmus Hall Dutchmen are going to square off in a winner-take-all Brooklyn battle for gridiron supremacy at Midwood Field later this month, they’ll have to survive one of the great Final Four weekends in recent P.S.A.L. history.

Unbeaten Fort Hamilton (11-0) spotted ninth-ranked Lincoln (7-4) {read more...}

Déjà vu All Over Again for Jets’ Football Fans

It's Groundhog Day for the Jets as the promise of a 3-0 start has been crushed under the weight of a skid that has seen them lose five of their last six and landed them in their annual, mid-season playoff position; outside looking in. This year's version of the "Same Old Jets" could be a little more interesting than its predecessors, though, as the characters are far more compelling. {read more...}

It was another 5-4 week for the Locks as they continue to produce winning Saturdays; albeit by the closest of margins. Once again, however, it was the vaunted Gil Lock of Ryno Rife Sports Handicappers who dragged down the rest of the team. But for his {read more...}

By David Ansel Weiss
(cumb3@aol.com)

Ask anyone you see at Commodore Barry Park on Navy Street and Flushing Avenue what the first public park in Brooklyn was, and you will get a different answer than someone will give you at Fort Greene Park. Seems the Barry Park — originally named {read more...}

Now that the tepid elections of 2009 have faded, we can look back further into our history to see how politics used to be. Certainly many wrongs today must be corrected to extricate ourselves from the stasis that is represented in Albany by our currently elected {read more...}

BROOKLYN — With apologies to historian Barbara Tuchman, these comments could be titled “The Shoes of November.” The “shoes” relate to two major land use decisions that are expected to be made between now and the end of the month.

The two dropped shoes concern two large underused land areas within about {read more...}

The first of the gumbo {read more...}

She is now asking for votes, having entered her favorite “anytime” cookie, the ginger cookie, in the Bon Appetit bake-off.

“Everyone loves a ginger cookie, but how could I push it even further,” she writes. “How about mini ginger cookies sandwiches with cinnamon cream cheese filling?! Whoa! Heaven!” See photo below.

Visit eatmakeread.com for the link to vote, and check out {read more...}

The twist on the traditional {read more...}

GYOTAKU SUSHI
7215B 3RD AVE.
BAY RIDGE
(718) 833-8828
gyotakusushi.com

With the proliferation of sushi restaurants in New York, how does one restaurant distinguish itself? It was this question that brought us to the newest restaurant in Bay Ridge, Gyotaku Sushi.

Opened in mid-2009 by owners Ming and Chris, the eatery occupies the space formerly known as the Chip Shop between 72nd and 73rd streets. This stretch of restaurant real estate is unique in that it is a veritable United Nations {read more...}

Winder Zhao of Brooklyn is one of those four exemplary students.

“Winder embodies the {read more...}

St. Joseph’s College Caribbean Student Association and the Fashion Club will host the 2nd Annual Fundraising Dinner for “Haute Couture for Humanity: Art for A Cause,” on Friday, November 20 at {read more...}

Francesca Norsen Tate, Editor

Bethlehem Lutheran’s Pastor Knudsen Celebrates 25 Years in Ordained Ministry

Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge this weekend honors its pastor, the Rev. Paul Knudsen, who marks the 25th anniversary of his {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

Ho, ho, ho means shop, shop, Shop Third Avenue as Santa Claus rides once again along this premier Bay Ridge shopping strip on Friday, Nov. 27, joyfully launching {read more...}

The 34 participants learned techniques of resume writing and then had the opportunity to meet one-on-one with a career counselor for resume review. Reverend Monsignor John Maloney, pastor of St. Anselm, offered the opening prayer. Brother Robert Duffy, director {read more...}

That honor went to 31-year-old Calvin Greene of Bensonhurst, whose outstanding achievements in leadership were an inspiration to all present.

The awards gala honored individuals with developmental disabilities, aged 18 and older, who have made extraordinary achievements in {read more...}

Remembering Frankie … On Sunday, Nov. 22, the Second Annual Francesco Loccisano Memorial Foundation ‘HopeFest’ will take place at Russo’s on the Bay at 12:30 p.m. This year it will honor the former president of Xaverian High School, Sal Ferrera; Kellie Kilbride of Lavender Blue; Jeffrey J. Basti, MD of Lutheran/Maimonides Hospitals and Shannon Rose O’Brien, a pediatric cancer survivor. This foundation is named in memory of Loccisano, who finally lost his 27-month battle with bone cancer and {read more...}

His father was Italian and his mother an African-American. At age 15 he joined a team known as the Bacharach Giants for weekend games through Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He was later with the Baltimore Elite Giants — spending winters in the Latin American {read more...}