By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

FORT GREENE — The heavy layer of “recession snow” that has blanketed development plans for the Brooklyn Cultural District is melting even in the cold February weather.

The city has launched a series of cultural and public projects in and around the BAM area that will cost around $100 million this year. Most of these projects have been previously announced, but like so much else, they were seriously impacted by {read more...}

By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

JAY STREET — Tuesday, in cold, hand-rubbing weather, Michael Weiss, executive director of the Metrotech Business Improvement District (BID) patiently pulled together a group of business leaders for an informal ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the BID’s new Downtown Brooklyn Information Center.

The center was created by renovating an MTA-owned booth that had been a coffee and donut stand in the open vestibule at 370 Jay St., the former MTA headquarters {read more...}

BAY RIDGE — A boom to the state’s fiscal troubles could mean doom for the city’s clean drinking and bathing water supply as pressures build on both sides of a controversial plan to drill near the {read more...}

COLUMBIA STREET AREA – As you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that salt will be spread all over the city’s streets to deal with a snowstorm.

For drivers and walkers during a snowstorm, salt {read more...}

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By Deepti Hajela
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Every payday, Jeff Paul sent whatever dollars he could spare to his mother and little brother back home in Haiti. They've become even more desperate since the Jan. 12 earthquake, compounded by thieves, destroyed his mother's business; they had to sleep in the streets of Port-au-Prince before a relative took them in.

"There's no food, they don't have money," said Paul, a part-time security guard and sophomore at {read more...}

JAY STREET — Defense attorneys are pulling out all the stops this week in the trial of three Brooklyn cops who allegedly covered up the sodomization of a suspect.

Tuesday the judge hearing the case even had to stop one planned demonstration by an expert witness who brought along his own makeshift kit. It contained a plastic tube, police baton and a pair of boxer shorts, which he proposed to use to recreate the alleged sodomy. {read more...}

By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

CARROLL GARDENS — U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer has announced that he is recommending Raymond J. Lohier, a Brooklyn community-board officer, to fill a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Lohier, a federal prosecutor and attorney, serves as {read more...}

The swearing-in ceremony included the appointment of three new Family Court judges, four new Criminal Court judges, and two new Civil Court judges. The mayor also reappointed six Family Court judges, 10 Criminal {read more...}

By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

GREENPOINT — It’s not a gimmick to attract home buyers, but it could be. While prospective buyers are checking out a circa-1870 Brooklyn church and its potential as a mansion, single-family or even two-family home, they may also hear “the dulcet sounds of Pat Metheny’s jazz guitar and his electronic orchestra” coming from the attached Sunday school.

Since placing the former St. Elias Church, at 145 Kent {read more...}

BENSONHURST -- George Washington is coming back to Brooklyn, standing near the same place he visited in 1790. This time, he’ll be meeting with Brooklyn history buffs and others who’ll have a chance to ask him about his presidency.

Friends of Historic New Utrecht invites the public to spend an evening with the former president, as portrayed by Michael J. Grillo, educational director at the Van Cortlandt House Museum in the Bronx, at the {read more...}

BAY RIDGE -- Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer (D-Staten Island/Brooklyn) is sponsoring legislation to help reduce water bills by requiring the New York City Water Board to set rates after the city adopts its budget (A.9770). {read more...}

Now Hedges {read more...}

It’s an exclusive opportunity to share your story and have it archived as part of the BHS oral history {read more...}

BROOKLYN — Anyone who has been on, through, or close to the old Fulton Mall is aware that it is being completely overhauled in a $15 million city project that is part of creating a new {read more...}

At the age of four, Carole began playing piano. She attended local public schools and graduated from Midwood High School where she formed a vocal quartet called the Cosines (remember {read more...}

As a young girl her family moved from place to place. Her father was a magazine writer who loved music and wanted his daughter to become an opera singer. {read more...}

Until 1939, the pride of the French Line, the sleekest passenger vessel the North Atlantic had ever known, crossed the Atlantic regularly, but the outbreak of World War II prevented her return to Europe, so she was moored at Pier 88 at the foot of West 49th Street in Manhattan. There the enormous liner sat for two years, manned by a skeleton crew.

Toward the end of 1941 the ship was seized {read more...}

By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Some residents of Concord Village, the seven-building, 1,025-unit co-op complex at Adams and Tillary streets in Downtown Brooklyn, think of it as an island in the middle of a sea of courthouses, college buildings and traffic.

Others view it as an integral part of the Downtown Brooklyn community and still others see it as a haven. Maybe it’s all three.

“I’ve always said Concord {read more...}

By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS -- They laughed, they cried and they wildly applauded the acting, the sets, costumes and the Bard himself at P.S. 8’s production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Remix” in Brooklyn Heights last Friday.

The school’s third, fourth and fifth graders seemed to have been born speaking Elizabethan English. The interpretation was so clear that the audience actually laughed at Shakespeare’s jokes {read more...}

Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

FORT GREENE — Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) reports it has awarded Hunt Construction Group the construction contract for the Barclays Arena at Atlantic Yards.

The Indianapolis-based construction company will be working with arena designers Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Architects, and will be using “a structural steel superstructure frame with structural precast seating bowl and a weathered steel rain screen facade,” according to a published statement.

As frequently reported {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE – As Republicans go on the march to unseat Democrats across the country, a young Democrat is seeking to depose Brooklyn’s sole Republican state senator, Marty Golden of Bay Ridge, an elected official since 1997.

The challenge comes from Gravesend resident Mike DiSanto, 29, in his first foray into politics, starting off the first real Democrat-Republican campaign in the southwest Brooklyn district since 2004. DiSanto declared his {read more...}

By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

RED HOOK -- Friends and artists gathered at 65 Union St. this past Saturday night for the weekend-only exhibit “Salting the Excellence.” The exhibit showcased the works of nine emerging artists at the WORK Gallery, a space dedicated to fostering emerging artists and their craft {read more...}

CLINTON HILL -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway came to the headquarters of the Pratt Area Community Council Monday to launch the Water Debt Assistance Program, a new initiative {read more...}

A health official says a total of {read more...}

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS -- For more than 35 years, Brother George Larkin, O.S.F. ’60 helped recruit and guide thousands of students through their time at St. Francis College.

To honor his memory and the influence he had on the St. Francis College Community, his life and legacy will be on full {read more...}

The honorees, nominated by their fellow employees and selected by a special committee, were presented engraved crystal hearts by Beth Israel Interim President Harris Nagler, MD, Rhona Hetstrony, VP for administration, and Marie {read more...}

KCCBA Past Presidents James Layton Koenig and Andrew Rendeiro congratulated Person of the Year Roger Bennet Adler at the KCCBA Annual Dinner and Dance held Saturday at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, Queens.

Kings County Criminal Bar Association (KCCBA) President John B. Stella and Acting Kings County Supreme Court Justices Sheryl L. Parker and John P. Walsh. Hon. Barry Kamins presented the husband and wife each with Person {read more...}

This exhibit, which will be held at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), will be open to the public for two weeks from Saturday, February 27 until Sunday, March 14. An opening night reception and gallery talk will {read more...}

Anyone with information on his {read more...}

BROOKLYN — Recently Continuum Health Partners, known to Downtown Brooklyn residents as the parent company of Long Island College Hospital, backed down from its offer to buy the troubled St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village.

The problem with this arrangement is that Continuum planned to shut down St. Vincent’s inpatient facilities, {read more...}

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS— Massey Knakal Realty Services honored two Brooklyn brokers at its annual award ceremony on Jan. 27. The event, held this year at the Brooklyn office in Brooklyn Heights and honored “some of the finest” in the firm.

The Brooklyn honorees are:

• Brian Hanson, first vice president of sales in {read more...}

Eagle photographer Mario Belluomo recently came upon a 1914 edition of the Eagle Almanac in a used bookstore. Its subtitle, “A Book of Information, General of the World, and Special of New York City and Long Island,” is apt.

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