Honor for Former Board Member, City Commissioner And Political Activist
By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle
On the street where she lived there was rejoicing. Community Board 10 gave its thumbs up to rename the southwest corner of 75th Street (Bay Ridge Parkway) and
Community Board 10 member Helen Sokoloski, who died suddenly on September 27, was remembered and honored at the October board meeting. Here son Joseph Sokoloski listens to tribute by board member Mary Nolan after he gave his thanks and a check to the Commodore Barry Club of Brooklyn, which Sokoloski supported and of which Nolan is president, and he also presented a check with thanks to BRAVO. Sokoloski, before moving to Bay Ridge with her son a few years ago, {read more...}
President Susan Huizinga of the Narrows Community Theater is honored at Community Board 10 meeting by Chair Dean Rasinya and District Manager Josephine Beckmann after leading Pledge of Allegiance. Huizinga said that the famed local theater company needs help in finding a permanent new home and encouraged people to attend its production of the “Damn Yankees” musical at St. Patrick’s Church Hall during the first two weekends of November.
Command Sergeant Major Sylvia Laughlin of Fort Hamilton Army Base, holds first-ever military families discount booklet from local restaurants and businesses, a project of Community Board 10’s new Military and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, chaired by Judith Collins, at right. With them are Board 10 Chair Dean Rasinya and District Manager Josephine Beckmann at recent board meeting. “I’ve served all over the world and I’ve never seen the degree of gratitude and support I’ve seen here,” said Laughlin.
BAY RIDGE – In a 180-degree spin around, Community Board 10 reversed its rejection of a new karaoke restaurant lounge’s liquor license application, delayed by the state, after concerns about its business
WILLIAMSBURG — District Manager Gerald A. Esposito of Brooklyn Community Board 1 (CB1), representing Greenpoint and Williamsburg, has called for expedited repairs to a damaged two-family home at 34 Maspeth Avenue.
Esposito called upon the Department of Buildings to immediately expedite
A man was rescued from the East River by firefighters after he plunged from the Brooklyn Bridge around 11 p.m. Tuesday night. The distraught subject, who was reportedly armed with a knife, kept cops at bay for a half hour before plummeting from the roadway. He was transported to Lutheran Medical Center with what a police official called “miraculously” minor injuries. The firefighter who entered the water to retrieve the victim was also
On Henry Street near the corner of Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, this man prepares to cut into the street’s asphalt surface with this giant circular saw to prepare for utility work below.
At its regularly scheduled meeting recently, Brooklyn Community Board 1, which covers Greenpoint and Williamsburg, elected
Christopher
Olechowski
as its new
chairman.
Olechowski, an experienced nonprofit executive with a master’s in public administration, replaces longtime board chairman
Vincent {read more...}
GREENPOINT — The tag above the buzzer on Vincent Abate’s front door on Manhattan Avenue still says “Community Board 1.” But after spending nearly 30 years as chairman of the board, Abate is finally retiring, just before his 91st birthday. “From now on, I’m
Outgoing Community Board 10 members Mary Nilsen and Timothy Cross get thank you certificates for their service at recent board meeting at the Shore Hill Community Room. Chair Dean Rasinya and District Manager Josephine Beckmann flank them. {read more...}
BROOKLYN – A proposal to provide affordable housing and retail space at a site where seamen from the Brooklyn Navy Yard were once imprisoned for going AWOL or getting into fistfights was approved on Wednesday night
FORT GREENE — The self-guided Fort Greene Garden Walk on Sunday, June 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. will include 10 private gardens, three community gardens and a commercial rooftop. Featured on the tour will be a hydroponic garden, a beehive and a chicken coop.
The hidden verdant treasures of Fort Greene will also feature one old-time Fort Greener who has painstakingly reconstructed a Roman ruin in his own backyard. Inspired by a stroll through Hadrian’s villa outside of
Community Board 10 honored Dr. Amhad Jaber, president and co-founder of the Arab American Association of New York and senior attending physician at Lutheran Medical Center’s obstetrics and gynecology department. Board 10 Chair Dean Rasinya and District Manager Josephine Beckmann flank Dr. Jaber, a Palestinian, after he led the Pledge of Allegiance at a recent meeting.
