By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

BAY RIDGE — After getting several phone calls from worried parents on the edge of panic over a swine flu scare here, Councilman Vincent Gentile reassured parents that {read more...}

The board voted to approve plans for {read more...}

Speakers will include: the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, ASPCA, Therapy Dogs International therapy dog teams, {read more...}

The panel, moderated by Greg {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

BAY RIDGE — Anti-crime fighters, an auxiliary cop from the 68th Precinct and an heroic fire fighting captain from Ladder 149 were honored by the Bay Ridge Community Council at its annual Public Safety Awards ceremony.

“They all have done a wonderful job in protecting our community with hard-work, dedication and even heroics,� said Louise Hidar, co-chair of the Public Safety Awards Committee at the ceremony during the BRCC meeting Tuesday {read more...}

Participants tasted a variety of wines during their field trip to Moore Brothers Wine Co., Vino Italian Wine and Spirits, Bottlerocket Wine & Spirit, Union Square Wines and Flute. The event raised over $4,000 to help keep the music education program alive for the year at ETM Associates’ adopted partner school P.S. 256 in Brooklyn.

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By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

CARROLL GARDENS – It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Superfund!

In the lively political “Dazzle Me Forum� held in the Carroll Gardens Public Library, six City Council candidates -- five Democrats and one Green Party -- answered questions led by the shape of Gowanus Canal cleanup plans, now that federal Superfund help may be secured.

Seeking to replace Councilman Bill de Blasio, who is now running for {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE – When it comes to Bay Ridge streets and sidewalks being clean, Mayor Bloomberg’s inspectors give the area a glowing rating. But trashing those findings was business and civic leader {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
BAY RIDGE — A totally skeptical Community Board 10, not swayed by the owners of what they say is a “restaurant� called Crown KTV near a public school, turned {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

BAY RIDGE – As springtime approaches, a new day has dawned for civic concerns, essential information and local action here in Bay Ridge.

Sing “on the avenue, Fifth Avenue� for Community Board 10’s new, spacious first-ever ground-floor storefront office that recently opened for business {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

BAY RIDGE – The gray rusted armor roll down walls that cover storefronts when businesses are closed and serve as “drawing boards� for graffiti vandals should be scrapped for a more attractive and transparent security blanket, said businessman Greg Ahl in a report to Community Board 10. They spread throughout the city after the urban riots of the 1960s and have become a relic of a bygone era {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE — Every year the city’s water is tested and rated against famous bottled water brands, which many drink in the belief that the bottled stuff healthier than tap water. {read more...}

Toro had been suddenly removed from the position in December amidst controversy over the Kent Avenue bike lane. Her removal came after she “went to the {read more...}

Presently the B64 bus is the only route using the turnaround stop on the east side of Fourth Avenue between 86th and 87th streets. The S53 and S79 Staten Island buses use the opposite side on the west between the same two streets, and the rush {read more...}