By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

William “Billy� Conklin, son of the late Jessie and state Senator William T. Conklin who was a pioneer in the formation of the Guild for Exceptional Children, {read more...}

Barbara, 77, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and had lived in Brooklyn Heights for more than forty years. After graduating from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, she worked as {read more...}

His own Brooklyn Heights brownstone served him with examples of noteworthy architectural elements. Norval C. White, co-author of the important AIA Guide to New York City, celebrated many Heights buildings in that work, as well as in his more personal “bouillabaisse of a book,� The Architecture Book (1977), about which Paul Goldberger wrote {read more...}

BROOKLYN — Rory James O’Sullivan, an aspiring filmmaker who lived in Brooklyn, died of a brain tumor on Dec. 27 at his parents’ home in Knoxville, Tenn.

O’Sullivan, 25, formerly of Glenside, Pa., was home-schooled and graduated from high school in Fairfield, Iowa in 2002. He attended {read more...}

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — William May, an Australian-based entertainment producer who co-created the top-selling theatrical tour “Walking With Dinosaurs,� has died. He was 56. May died Dec. 31, 2009, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne after {read more...}

By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — To most of the world, David Levine was a brilliant artist best-known for his caricatures of public figures, published for more than 40 years in the New York Review of Books.

He definitely was that. But in Brooklyn Heights, Levine, 83, who died Tuesday {read more...}

Donad K. Congdon, a literary agent with a roster of prominent authors, who could be acerbic but was also known as a genial friend among his Brooklyn Heights neighbors, died November 30 at home on Livingston Street. He was 91 and had suffered from dementia in recent years.

An early client whose career {read more...}

Brandon’s father, Christopher von Koschembahr, grew {read more...}

NEW YORK — CBS News producer Bernard Birnbaum, who helped shape the public’s view of issues ranging from poverty to the Watergate scandal while working alongside Walter Cronkite and Charles Kuralt, has died, the network said.

Birnbaum died on Thursday at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Stony Brook, New York, after having {read more...}

He was predeceased by his parents Gerard F. and Frances Earle. {read more...}

Perretta was born in Brooklyn in 1924, the second of four sons, to his parents, Josephine and Luigi Perretta, {read more...}

A photographer, resident in Bedford-Stuyvesant but associated especially with Harlem, died last week. He was not as well known as he should have been, for he was one of the very best. Roy DeCarava recorded people and life in Harlem with a sensitivity and a command of the medium that placed him among the masters.

DeCarava, 89 at his death, had achieved the title of distinguished professor of art at Hunter College, and can’t be said to have wasted away into obscurity. Even so, he did not get quite the recognition he was due. Inexplicably he was not included in the Metropolitan Museum’s giant exhibition, “Harlem on My Mind,� {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

Adelaide Kassenbrock, widow of the late Walter Kassenbrock, a co-founder of the Bay Ridge Community Council (BRCC) for whom P.S. 185 is named, died on Thursday. She was a {read more...}

By Raquel Maria Dillon
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Vic Mizzy, the Brooklyn-born songwriter who composed the catchy themes for the 1960s TV comedies “The Addams Family� and “Green Acres,� has died. He was 93.

In his youth, he was briefly the house pianist for the now-defunct radio station WLTH, whose motto was “The Voice of the Brooklyn Eagle in the Brooklyn Eagle Building.�

Mizzy died Saturday at his home in Bel Air, his manager {read more...}