Editorial

By Trudy Whitman

It used to be Carroll Gardens’ biggest hole; now it is the area’s largest conversation piece. When it comes to size, it’s one thing to read articles and study renderings reproduced in newspapers and on blogs; it’s another to watch the steel skeleton for 340 Court Street arise.

Vincent Joseph, a member of the Union-Sackett Block Association, called the project “much too big” in an email exchange with this newspaper, and one that “will never be in context on Court Street.” Joseph added that it is his belief that “City Planning really let the community down with the 70-ft. [height] limit.”

By Carl Blumenthal
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — Within the sub-genre of memoirs of mental illness is a niche — family members writing about their sick relatives, specifically daughters wondering whether they’ll turn out as crazy as their moms.
Some examples are The Four of Us, (1991) by Elizabeth Swados, Broadway musical producer; National Public Radio correspondent Jacki Lyden’s Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (1997); and fiction writer Virginia Holman’s Rescuing Patty Hearst (2003).

By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — The Steiner brothers’ announcement last week of their plans to build a large apartment building in Downtown Brooklyn has prompted a review of what’s been built, what is being constructed and what is being planned.

The result is astonishing. Within a 2-square-mile area that includes the Downtown core and part of Fort Greene down to Atlantic Avenue, 7,362 new residential units will soon be going up. As we show later, many additional potential and intended units are excluded from that number.

By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

When Rupert Murdoch acquired the Wall Street Journal, many observers thought he was trying to rival the New York Times. The Times is too big a nut to crack, but Murdoch added a new section called Greater New York, which is included in all the daily issues of the Journal and the weekend section that is distributed in the metropolitan area.

This is only a capsule view compared to the New York Times, but it has proved to be a resourceful and well-written brief news section about social, arts, and sports items.

Lately, the Journal has focused on the impact of Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards on the surrounding community.

By Trudy Whitman

Growing out of a comprehensive study of Boerum Hill’s street trees, a pilot program to enhance tree health while capturing street runoff has been envisioned by members of the tree study group.

By Public Advocate Bill de Blasio

NEW YORK — Today, one in five people under the age of 24 who want a job can’t find one. It’s a far cry from the kind of opportunity our kids deserve. In these tough economic times, young people understand they have to go above and beyond to prepare for life after school.

More than 140,000 students take Career and Technical Education classes in city schools to help their chances. And yet a recent report by my office shows 10 years of neglect by the Bloomberg administration have left Career and Tech Ed students without the tools they need to compete in today’s economy.