Hundreds of members of the Transit Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 expressed their outrage Wednesday afternoon with a fiery rally in Downtown Brooklyn at Cadman Plaza West and Montague streets, followed by a march across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall. In this second “Day of Outrage,” the union is protesting the MTA’s attempt to undo an arbitration panel's binding decision to give transit workers 11 percent wage hikes spread over three years.
Well-known Brooklyn attorney and Democratic District Leader (50th A.D.) Steve Cohn (left) is seen with Gov. David Paterson and Borough President Marty Markowitz at Cohn’s annual Pre-election Breakfast at Junior’s on Friday morning. Several hundred people, mainly members of the borough’s legal and political communities, attended, and breakfast-goers were given pumpkin cheesecake on the way out.
The borough in which we live in is so filled with wonderful diversity. This photo of a Judaica bookstore in Borough Park looks like it was taken in Central Europe during the turn of the century. This store was filled with beautiful books and many interesting shoppers.
Assemblyman William Colton, holding a stack of protest letters, and Bensonhurst/Gravesend residents are seen here after a rally led by Colton earlier this week, where the assemblyman spoke out against the state’s planned school budget cuts at a “war breakfast” at the Del Rio Diner. Colton is a former New York City schoolteacher.
From left to right: Thomas J. Volpe, chairman emeritus of the St. Francis College Board of Trustees; Terry Quinn, adjunct professor of English and playwright; James Grant, economist and author of John Adams: Party of One; and Brendan J. Dugan, president of St. Francis College, are seen at the world premiere of Quinn’s A Distant Love: Songs of John and Abagail Adams at the college {read more...}
This playground is under construction at Pier 6 at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, within the future Brooklyn Bridge Park. The wooden structures will be “play houses,” while the concrete forms will enclose sandboxes. Another playground within the park, in DUMBO, is already functioning. The Lower Manhattan skyline is seen in the background.
Hundreds of New Yorkers joined the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace this past Saturday in the March for Climate Leadership across the Brooklyn Bridge. The march was part of the largest global day of climate action ever as one of more than 4,500 events in over 170 countries to call on President Obama and other world leaders to secure a fair, ambitious and binding global deal in Copenhagen this December at the UN Climate Change Conference. {read more...}
Pet owners and their pets — wearing red ponchos, T-shirts and bandannas — braved the drizzle in Brooklyn Heights this past Saturday morning to take part in the third annual K9K Pet Cancer Awareness Walk, sponsored by Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI).The four kilometer walk took participants from Cadman Plaza Park over the Brooklyn Bridge and back. Speakers included VPI President and CEO Dennis Drent and Animal Cancer Foundation Executive Director Barbara Cohen. "The walk will help raise money to support {read more...}
These young people enjoyed the Rockabye Ride at the annual Halloween Pumpkin Patch at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights last Sunday. Parents, students and staff design and construct most of the games, decorations and a traditional haunted house that filled most of the private school’s garden playground and gyms.
Local teens from Starting Artists started an “Airborne Contaminants Masks” project last week at their local art space at 211 Smith St. in response to their feelings about living near the polluted waters and banks of the toxic Gowanus Canal. These teen artists expressed
deep concern over their health and safety in the event of a Gowanus Canal cleanup.
Raffle winners’ names are read by Borough President Marty Markowitz (right) at Court Street Office Supplies’ Customer Appreciation Day, aided by Abe Sicherman (left) in his 30th year as salesman and Adam Horowitz, marketing director. Not present were attorney Thomas A. Farinella of the Bronx, who won a $300 Kindle electronic book reader, and attorney James Rich of Brooklyn, winner of a labeling device.
Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn and Queens) reunited, for the first time since the accident, Keith Gorman with Alla Yelizarov and her two daughters Rebecca and Tayla, the family he rescued from Sheepshead Bay after their car plunged into the water earlier this month. Rep. Weiner helped reunite the family at the Baron DeKalb Knights of Columbus, blocks from the accident, and presented Keith Gorman with a congressional proclamation for his bravery.
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz recently dropped by the Mill Basin Kosher Deli to join owner Mark Schachner, the staff and loyal customers to celebrate the 36th anniversary of this Brooklyn institution. For more than three decades, Mill Basin has been dishing out foods and ambiance its customers love — from overstuffed pastrami sandwiches to one-of-a-kind pieces of art on display. Mill Basin Kosher Deli is a “must see,” noted Borough President Markowitz, a fact validated by Zagat in naming {read more...}
The Community Advisory Board of the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation (CNR), a member of the Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, honored outstanding community leaders at the recently held Excel Awards ceremony and reception. Sen. Velmanette Montgomery presented the honorees with proclamations for their notable contributions to the Brooklyn community. Seen here, left to right: Health Services Awardee, Dr. Wesner Moise, Primary Care Physician for Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation; Community Service Awardee, Richard Kuo, Executive Director of Homecrest {read more...}
On set during the flipped-car scene, producer Mercy L. Smith (far right), a Brooklyn Tech graduate who grew up in Crown Heights, and director Samuel Gonzalez Jr. (second from right), a Fort Hamilton military-police soldier from Bay Ridge, instruct Brooklyn Heights actress Camilla Maxwell and her co-star Illya Konstantine (both center inside car). ‘Reverie,’ a short film about lost love and salvation, is in the post-production phase and will be released next year. Shooting took place last weekend in Brooklyn {read more...}
