Any doubts about the growth of women-owned businesses will be dispelled at a unique networking event next month in Bay Ridge. The innovative Green Spa, one of the first businesses of its kind to go âall green,â will use three floors of its headquarters at 8804 Third Ave. to co-host âWomen Minding Their Own Businessâ {read more...}
Brooklyn Womenâs Services Health Center and the Maimonides Cancer Center hosted the âWomen Caring for Womenâ Symposium on Saturday, June 7th at the Bay Ridge Manor. The panel of speakers included female physicians from the Cancer Center who spoke to the audience about the latest in cancer prevention and treatment. Brooklyn Womenâs Services believes that education is the key to prevention. By hosting events like {read more...}
BROOKLYN â On Monday, March 24 at 6 p.m., the Brooklyn-based New York Transit Museum will present four women transportation executives in a panel discussion on womenâs roles in the traditionally male-dominated transportation industry.
They Get NSF Grant To Nurture
Emerging Female Math Scholars
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN â Though the number of U.S. college women majoring in mathematics continues to increase, the percentage of new female PhDs in the field has leveled out since 1999, averaging
Financial adviser Caren Sgarlato of MetLife (pictured standing) held a financial seminar, âAchieving Financial Freedom for Women,â at the BookMark Shoppe on Third Avenue in Bay Ridge on March 13. Uncovering what is important about money to women was a core objective of the seminar. If you missed this one, Ms. Sgarlato will he holding another seminar at Bookmark
Brooklyn Womenâs Services hosted its 12th Annual Focus on Women Symposium on March 15 at The Bay Ridge Manor. This yearâs event celebrated âWomen Who Heal The Worldâ and featured a panel of women who told their personal stories about {read more...}
BAY RIDGE â State Senator Marty Golden hosted a community celebration of Womenâs History Month honoring local women at an awards ceremony and reception Monday night at the Bay Ridge Manor. âThis month, we celebrate the many ways women strengthen and enrich America,â said Golden. âIn each aspect of American culture, we see women playing a leadership role. It is with that same notion that
By Beth C. Aplin
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS â In Rachel Clineâs second novel, âMy Liar,â released this week by Random House, a precarious friendship between two women goes off the rails when one takes a sensitive,
The JusticeWorks Community, a Park Slope-based non-profit that works to advocate for women navigating the justice system, is accepting applications for The 2008 Rev. Dr. Constance M. Baugh Achievement Award until Jan. 25. The yearly award is presented to one {read more...}
BROOKLYN â As an English major at Hunter College in the â60s, Patricia Spence Rudden recalls âhow exciting it was to discover Laura Nyroâs music. Her music was very urban; I understood it almost immediately. I began to appreciate Nyroâs {read more...}
By Don Evans
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS â Old-fashioned quilting and silhouette crafting will be demonstrated today, Nov. 8, as âHoliday Thursdaysâ begin for shoppers at the 152-year old Brooklyn Womenâs Exchange at 55 Pierrepont St. in Brooklyn Heights.
Exchange president Margaret Leung and publicist Clare Bradshaw announced the six-week series at a preview of the storeâs enormous array of mostly unique handcrafted merchandise made by
Monday afternoon seemed to be the perfect opportunity to tour the highly populated 86th street in search of Bay Ridge residents eager to voice their thoughts on the community. Eddie the Eagle and I enjoyed the afternoon chatting with a {read more...}
By Phoebe Neidl
Brooklyn Eagle
Bay Ridge â At age 20, when Laurie Cahill started competing in Taekwon-do and winning, she decided she needed more of a challenge. So she took up a âfull contactâ sport â kickboxing. Coached by Cookie Malendez, who she describes as a âpioneerâ in the arena of female kickboxing, by the end of her career Cahill came to be internationally ranked in Taekwon-do and the #1 ranked female kickboxer in the Northeast.
Recognized for Volunteer Work Benefiting Older New Yorkers
BROOKLYN â Audrey Davis of Clinton Hill, Roger Ditman of Park Slope, Anita Louis Smith of Brooklyn Heights and Flozie Vaughn of East Flatbush were honored by the AARP New York State Office {read more...}
Pat Ruiz (right), Lutheran HealthCareâs community relations associate, was the recent recipient of two Hispanic Heritage Leadership awards. New York State Senator Martin Golden and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes honored Ruiz for her leadership and dedication to Lutheran HealthCare {read more...}