In an effort to ease the financial burden of college students, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the New York Urban League have awarded four outstanding college seniors internships at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and $2,000 towards his or her college education from the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation.
Winder Zhao of Brooklyn is one of those four exemplary students.
St. Joseph College Fashion Event To Benefit Habitat for Humanity
St. Joseph’s College Caribbean Student Association and the Fashion Club will host the 2nd Annual Fundraising Dinner for “Haute Couture for Humanity: Art for A Cause,” on Friday, November 20 at
BROOKLYN -- From 86th Street in Bay Ridge to Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights and beyond, students from two Brooklyn high schools “shadowed” AT&T employees at company-owned locations throughout the city this past Tuesday.
Students from the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at Erasmus Hall and Enterprise, Business and Technology High School (on the old Eastern District High School campus) got a chance to experience a slice of the real world
NEW YORK CITY -- The city has agreed to increase the number of new elementary and middle school classroom seats in the city’s Five-Year Capital Plan by a total of 5,123, at
Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden reads from The Dream Plucker of Perrysport, which is claimed to be the world's largest children's book, to students from Brooklyn's P.S. 23 at Rockefeller Center earlier this month. The 15½-by-20-foot book was created by Carnival Cruise Lines to celebrate the upcoming U.S. debut of its new ship, the Carnival Dream. Many of Carnival’s ships, of course, dock at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook when they’re in New York.
Student-Grown Nutritious Fresh Food A Growing Brooklyn Trend
By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BAY RIDGE – School cafeterias are on their way to getting healthier, fresher and more nutritious due to a growing movement that is uprooting the way school children eat
Heights Kids: `I’ve Taken
Every Stroller off the Floor’
By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Maclaren USA announced a recall Monday of every Maclaren stroller made in the last 10 years -- about one million strollers.
Maclaren strollers are ubiquitous throughout New York City.
The commission has received reports that at least 12 children in the United States have had their fingertips amputated after placing their fingers in the stroller’s hinge mechanism while the stroller was being
COBBLE HILL — In celebration of Italian Heritage and Culture Month, the Brooklyn School for Global Studies’ History Department, in association with the New York Council for the Humanities, invited Brooklyn-based TV producer-writer-director Tony De Nonno to talk about a man whom he calls the true inventor of the telephone: Antonio Meucci.
De Nonno, who directed the 12-minute film Antonio Meucci: The Father of the Telephone, recently told the assembled students and teachers about Meucci’s one-man
Harvest Day Celebration With Fresh Produce and Tom Chapin
Students at P.S. 29 in Cobble Hill celebrated locally grown produce, their very own gardeners and the P.S. 29 Children’s Garden on Friday, October 16.
A grand array of special activities included outdoor activity stations, lunch that included fresh produce from the Greenmarket and hand-picked fresh lettuce and basil from the P.S. 29 Children’s Garden, and a presentation by farmer and land steward Scott Chaskey of the Peconic Land Trust’s Quail Hill
On Saturday, November 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Plymouth Church hosts a favorite autumn tradition in Brooklyn Heights. On the day of Yankee Fair, Orange Street between Hicks and Henry Streets and the ground floor of the Plymouth {read more...}
What is billed as a very Muppet evening with a screening of The Muppets Take Manhattan and special guest speaker Roscoe Orman, AKA Gordon from Sesame Street, will help support the charitable outreach of the non-profit Puppetry Arts.
It seemed like the Brooklyn Heights community really wanted a celebration this year — and they went all out for Halloween. Because of the large numbers of participants filling Pierrepont Playground, there was no formal parade, but costumed kids and their parents strolled down the Promenade and around the block. The most popular costumes noted were firefighters and fire chiefs, along with several totally original disguises such as bookworm, Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty.
From 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum is summoning all goblins big and small to attend its annual Monster Mash Fest celebrating the harvest season and Halloween. Little witches, ghouls and princesses can enjoy the museum’s fun-filled, themed programs for two night. Activities include a costumed DJ dance party, interactive programs and even a Mad {read more...}
Twenty-seven percent of the Saint Ann’s School Class of 2010 has been recognized in the National Merit, National Hispanic Recognition, and National Achievement Scholarship Programs.
Earlier in the fall, Saint Ann’s seniors Nora Castle, Maggie Henry, Ashton Kittredge, Jenne O’Brien, Emma Schindler, and Claire Zabel were honored as semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program. Saint Ann’s students who have been selected as Commended Students include Shon Arieh-Lerer, Dash Davidson, Grace Dunham, Blair Ganson, Julia Greenwald, Lila Low-Beinart, Eli
Sunlit blue smoke rising from the barbecue grill floated in ghostly swirls above the crowd-filled Halloween Pumpkin Patch at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights last Sunday.
Sponsored by the Packer Parent Association, the annual autumn fund-raising event is a joint volunteer production by students, parents and school staff, who design and construct most of the games, decorations and a traditional haunted house that fill the private school’s garden playground and gyms.
