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A.M. RICHARD FINE ART: 328 Berry St., Williamsburg. (917) 570-1476 or www.amrichardfineart.com.
“All Roads Lead to Coney Island.” Through July 12. Contemporary works of art, paintings, sculpture, films, photographs and historical ephemera.

ART 101: 101 Grand St., Williamsburg. (718) 302-2242 or www.art101brooklyn.com.
The Exuberant Summer Sculpture Show. Through July 12. {read more...}

By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

GOWANUS/SOUTH SLOPE — Sales were launched two months ago for a 156-unit condominium at 500 Fourth Ave. in Gowanus and already 20 percent of the units have sold.

Joyce Kafati-Batarse, senior vice president of Prudential Douglas Elliman, who is handling sales for the Scarano Architects-designed building, credits the amenities and finishes for the building’s success.

“In addition, buyers can take advantage of an early bird buyer incentive offering 10 percent off the {read more...}

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By Sarah Tobol
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

CROWN HEIGHTS — There’s been graffiti at the local nursing home and detective Eugene “Huge” Smalls is on the case, driving his Cruiser around a New Jersey town with sick-minded sidekick Thrash in tow. This isn’t your usual hard-boiled detective novel, however: Huge {read more...}

By Liz Tung
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

PARK SLOPE — After delaying its decision by nearly a week, the New York City Council has approved the School Construction Authority (SCA)’s contentious proposal to demolish P.S. 133, an elementary school in {read more...}

By Caitlin McNamara
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

PARK SLOPE — Tuesday evening, at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, lifelong Brooklynite Simone Dinnerstein will make her debut as guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic. Led by conductor Bramwell Tovey, she will perform Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 as part of the orchestra’s Summertime Classics.

Dinnerstein says to play with the Philharmonic has been a lifelong dream.

“Being from Brooklyn, I grew up going to New York Philharmonic concerts at {read more...}

How difficult has it been to beat the Cyclones at home this season?

Consider this: Brooklyn has outscored its opponents by a combined 38-14 over its first six contests at KeySpan Park and had yet to allow more than three runs to a visiting team entering Thursday night’s game with Tri-City.

It’s the type of home-field advantage the Cyclones had when they won a share of the New York-Penn League championship during their inaugural 2001 campaign on Coney Island. {read more...}

The University of Southern California product is looking forward to representing our fair borough in the city Michael Jordan called home for all six of his NBA titles.

“I’m blessed to be here and looking forward to the season {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE – On the eve of Scouting’s 100th anniversary next year, the Brooklyn Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) held its annual Bay Ridge Breakfast for Scouting with “Scout’s honors” for four civic leaders who promote and represent the values held by scouting.

“Ninety-nine years ago, the Boy Scouts were in formation,” said James Clark, involved in scouting for six decades, speaking at the Bay Ridge Manor on {read more...}

By Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

ADAMS STREET — New renovations are on the way for Brooklyn Supreme Court this summer. Parts of the courthouse at 360 Adams St. that are currently unused will be redesigned to give judges, jurors and litigants a little more room to stretch out.

The $6 million planned renovation is tentatively scheduled for the end of August, said Supreme Court Director of Operations Ralph Palma, who is in {read more...}

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Totillo-Brier v. Jaber, July 21, Medical malpractice, $22M

Paul v. NY Methodist Hospital, March 18, Medical Malpractice, $7.9M

Conlon v. Foley, Sept. 25, Motor Vehicle Accident, $5M

Amuso v. Imbasciani, Aug. 11, Motor Vehicle Accident, $5M

Bauer v. NYC School Construction Authority, Construction Site Injury, $4.5M

Alexander v. City of New York, Nov. 18, Premises Liability, $4.5M

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Lance Stephenson, one of the most talented high school basketball players in the nation, committed to the University of Cincinnati this week after a long and tumultuous recruiting process. Stephenson, out of Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, set the New York state scoring record while leading the Railsplitters to four consecutive city championships. He was invited to the prestigious ABCD camp as an eighth grader, has been the subject of a documentary, played in the famous summer {read more...}

In Los Angeles, both Joe Torre and Mike Scioscia have their squads atop the division despite depleted rosters that would have sent lesser teams to the bottom of the standings. {read more...}

By Linda Collins
Brookyn Daily Eagle

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — It’s a deal you can’t refuse. This weekend only, today through Sunday, July 5, residents who commit to buying a one-bedroom unit at The Sinclair Condominiums in Prospect Heights will receive a brand new Toyota Prius.

“It’s a great example of what marketing agents are doing to bring in more first-time buyers who are sitting on the fence in this market,” said Jacqui Howard Sicignano of {read more...}

The NYPD’s Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program started in 2007 to address the rise in {read more...}

“The same qualities that make the city’s buildings recognized icons of design, culture and commerce also make them continuous targets of terrorism,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a foreword for the report.

The report — which was distributed yesterday at a meeting with private {read more...}

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — A Brooklyn-based Pentecostal faith healer was released on bail in his native Jamaica on Monday, nearly two weeks after being charged with sexually abusing a teenage girl.

Paul Lewis, 45, of the The Messengers for Christ World Healing Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was charged with carnal abuse {read more...}

The Atlantic Auto Care Center Inc. of Brooklyn, according to a call made to the car {read more...}

“My interest in drug treatment alternatives to prison began when I first {read more...}

BAY RIDGE — Ingenuity is the guiding concept behind the art show themes that Bay Ridge Gallery 364 and its founder/owner Georgine Benvenuto throws out to the art world in and around Bay Ridge. The “Recycle, Reused, Rescued” theme for the current show at the gallery at 364 72nd St. gave another remarkable burst of creativity by artists, photographers and sculptors challenged and inspired by the latest ingenious theme.

Here is a sampling of the exhibit featuring artworks {read more...}

During the ceremonies, Amalgamated’s President and CEO Derrick D. Cephas welcomed over 50 guests including a group of students from Fontbonne Hall Academy, who won the Brooklyn Championship while competing in The Challenge. This is a program presented by Cablevision that requires students to provide split-second answers to questions about everything from the arts to zoology.

During the presentation, the Bank played {read more...}

Joseph Melillo, a former Vice President of Morgan Stanley and a life-long Brooklyn resident, has written a children’s book called Parker the Platypus, based on a song he wrote in 2008.

“This song must have existed since the dawn of time, and chose me to give it form,” said Melillo. He and his vocal instructor, Janie Barnett, finished writing the piece and recorded it immediately.

Melillo can be seen in any Bay Ridge venue that performs {read more...}

The Kings County D.A. was the event’s keynote speaker. He spoke about the importance of strong family and personal values being a foundation towards a bright future. The D.A. then presented students Durr E. Ajam Riaz and Yaying Zheng with the Annual District Attorney Charles Hynes “Citation of Honor” Award.

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‘Fore’… On Monday, June 29, at Marine Park Golf Club at 8 a.m., the second annual Francesco Loccisano Memorial Foundation teed off. It was a hit. I had the pleasure of playing with Michael Coluccio, Anthony Orrichino and Francesco’s younger brother Christopher Loccisano. After-golf festivities took place at Russo’s On The Bay with a lunch and award ceremony, where I sat with members of the Xaverian family, where Francesco had gone to high school.

On July 1, 1941, NBC was the first major commercial television station to go on the air, telecasting the Brooklyn Dodgers-Philadelphia Phillies game. Following the game they televised a 1936 mystery movie Death from a Distance, starring Lola Lane.

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On This Day in History: July 1
A Movement Begins

On July 1, 1879, the first publication of Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence was issued by Charles Taze Russell, founder of Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society, which would eventually become known as Jehovah’s Witnesses. The world headquarters for the organization has been in Brooklyn Heights since 1908.

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Historically Speaking
Brooklyn Through the Ages: July

By John B. Manbeck
A Brooklyn historian
Special to The Brooklyn Eagle

July is named after Julius Caesar, the Roman ruler who invented our Julian calendar. In Latin, the seventh month is Julius. We look on July as the first of a two {read more...}

On This Day in History: July 1
Street Corner Harmony: Part 16

The Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn was designed with families in mind. A Brooklyn Times article of June 16, 1890 paints a portrait of the era and the mood of a place where patrons were “chiefly good middle-class Brooklynites — {read more...}