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You are not logged in. Register now. November 20, 2009
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Heights Filmmaker Seeks Truth About Man Who Paid for Jews’ Lives
by Caitlin McNamara (Caitlin@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-19-2009

Kasztner Negotiated With Eichmann During WWII

By Caitlin McNamara

The tale of Rezso Kasztner’s rescue of a concentration camp-bound train — a Schindler’s List-esque story of Jewish lives saved during the Holocaust — is one that has, oddly enough, been all but erased from history. Although he is credited with saving more lives than Schindler, Kasztner’s name, {read more...}





Red Hook Filmmakers Turn Pickup Truck Into Tiny Farm
by Phoebe Neidl (phoebe@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-19-2009

Yields a Harvest of Broccoli, Basil, Tomatoes and More

By Phoebe Neidl
Brooklyn Eagle

RED HOOK — When Ian Cheney inherited his grandfather’s ’86 Dodge pickup truck seven years ago, little did he know that the weather-worn vehicle would be at the center of one of his documentary film projects. But after the New England native moved to Brooklyn, the truck became much more than a truck. Against all odds, it became a miniature urban farm.

“I soon realized the truck was the only {read more...}





Bob Diamond’s Ups & Downs Trying to Bring Trolleys Back to Brooklyn
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-18-2009

By John Sample

When visitors stroll for the first time along Brooklyn’s Red Hook waterfront at the Fairway Store, they are apt to be surprised by three 50-year-old PCC streetcars sitting in silence on tracks laid 12 years ago by a crew under the direction of Bob Diamond.

With many years of transit fandom and construction to his credit, Bob is known nationally as a champion of the electric trolley, and a pioneer investigator. He is widely known as the rediscoverer of {read more...}





Long Journey Home On the B63 Bus
by Harold Egeln (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-06-2009

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN – As reported in this newspaper, the B63 bus yields Brooklyn’s slowest trip in the “Pokey” category determined by NYPIRG’s Straphangers Campaign, a nonprofit public transit advocacy group. The Fifth Avenue bus that travels a {read more...}





Once Again, Two B’klyn Buses Named To the ‘Slow’ List
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-05-2009

B44 Is Least Reliable; B63 Is Slowest in Borough

NEW YORK — The Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives Thursday gave out its “Pokey,” “Schleppie” and “Trekkie” Awards for poor and ultra-slow bus service in the city.

The Pokey award, for the slowest local {read more...}





B’klyn Legislators Support ‘Kill the Drill’ Campaign
by Harold Egeln (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-05-2009

Saving Our Water Supply From Gas Drilling Is Goal

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE — The recent announcement by a gas company that it will not drill for natural gas near the city’s watershed comes after more than a year of {read more...}





Despite Bloomberg Win, Democrats Rule in B’klyn
by Harold Egeln (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-04-2009

Gentile, Reyes, Vann Crush Challengers

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — This borough, by a slim margin of 4 percent, preferred Brooklyn’s own William Thompson over Mayor Michael Bloomberg, although Bloomberg was elected to a third term on Tuesday.

City Comptroller Thompson won about 50 percent of Brooklyn’s votes, compared to 46 percent for Bloomberg, who had Democratic Borough President Marty Markowitz’s endorsement. Markowitz, as expected, trounced Republican Marc D’Ottavio in a landslide win of 224,771 to 35,062.

Brooklyn Councilman Bill de Blasio, {read more...}





Water Taxi Service On Thin Ice Again
by Raanan Geberer (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-04-2009

Provides Alternative for Waterfront Commuters

By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — The statement by New York Water Taxi that it may have to halt its East River commuter ferry service is being met with disappointment in the communities the route serves.

However, many {read more...}





A Boerum Hill Elementary School Brings Back a Lost Art
by Mary Frost (mfrost@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-04-2009

Teachers Learn How to Teach Quaint Art of Handwriting

By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BOERUM HILL -- It all started when parents noticed that their kids couldn’t hold their pencils properly or write legibly.

So many children had terrible handwriting at Boerum Hill’s P.S. 261 that they were referred, en masse, to the school’s occupational therapy specialist, Nadia Rohrs.

“The parents were frustrated with their children’s handwriting,” said P.S. 261 Principal Zipporiah Mills. “They saw their kids holding their pencils like this.

“We {read more...}





Want the ‘Gingerbread House’? It’s Yours for Just $12 Million!
by Harold Egeln (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-04-2009

Bewitching ‘Hansel And Gretel’ Mansion Part of Bay Ridge Lore

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

It seems something out of a fairy tale forest, plunked down on an acre of Bay Ridge land like the charming but bewitched house in Hansel and Gretel.

Just three days after Halloween it’s been discovered that the famed “Gingerbread House,” built in 1916 at 8220 Narrows Avenue and owned by Jerry and Diane Fishman, is for sale at a $12 million asking price.

The news comes initially from the {read more...}





With Elections Over, Allegretti Is Looking Forward to 2010
by Harold Egeln (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-04-2009

Republican Seeks To Oust McMahon in Bay Ridge

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE — With the 2010 Congressional elections one year from now seen as a litmus test to Democrat President Barack Obama’s mid-term leadership and Republican renewal, the 13th Congressional District contest here is set to be a prime testing ground.

Michael Allegretti, a rising reform-minded Republican with footholds in Bay Ridge and Staten Island, is seeking to end the first term of freshman Congressman Mike McMahon, a centrist Democrat from {read more...}





What To Look For In Tuesday’s Elections
by Harold Egeln (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-02-2009

By Harold Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN – While Brooklyn voters pull their levers mostly to a Democratic Party beat, the different drum of the Republican Party here has its candidates on the offensive, making for last-minute campaign excitement as Election Day {read more...}





Who Are Those Poll Workers?
by Raanan Geberer (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-02-2009

They Could Be Anyone

By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN – Once a year – or twice a year, if they vote in the primaries – voters come face to face with poll workers. Some may wonder where they come from and {read more...}





USS New York, Built With WTC Steel, Receives Gala Welcome
by Mary Frost (mfrost@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-02-2009

Sails Under Verrazano, Into Harbor

By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

NEW YORK HARBOR — Escorted by a flotilla of vessels and with helicopters buzzing overhead, the new Navy warship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel embedded in its hull, sailed under the Verrazano Bridge and into New York Harbor Monday morning.

Hundreds, including families of Sept. 11 victims and first responders, gathered on the waterfront near the scene of the terrorist attack for a 21-gun salute.

The bow of the {read more...}





‘Special Agents,’ Weapons Drawn, Bust ‘Terror Network’
by Mary Frost (mfrost@brooklyneagle.net), published online 10-29-2009

IRS ‘Special Agent for a Day’ Program Comes to LIU Campus

By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees are often thought of as mild-mannered accountant types (with maybe just a tiny sadistic streak). But there’s another side to the IRS that most law-abiding folks don’t know about — IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) investigates, apprehends and helps prosecute some of the world’s most dangerous criminals.

To expose accounting majors to the rough-and-tumble world of criminal investigations, the {read more...}







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