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September 3, 2010

 

 
Today in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Goes Back To Class With Six New School Buildings
Will Provide More Than 4,000 Additional Seats

By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — Four new state-of-the-art public school buildings and two new charter school buildings will provide an additional 4,368 classroom seats to Brooklyn kids when schools open next week.

Citywide, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced the opening of a total of 26 new school locations Wednesday, adding more than 17,000 new seats – a record expansion.

“This is a record in New York City and {read more...}

Light at the End Of the Tunnel
Rail buff Bob Diamond of the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association reports that after our article Bob Diamond, Famed Rail Buff, Calls It Quits was published, “The Brooklyn Borough President's office prevailed on me to continue the tunnel tours [of {read more...}
Calendar: September 2 — September 9

Galleries

BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000 or www.brooklynmuseum.org. Work of Art: Abdi Farah. Through Oct. 17.
Kiki Smith: “Sojourn.” Through Sept. 12.
“Andy Warhol: The Last Decade.” Through Sept. 12.
“Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864.” Through Oct. 17.

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: Central Library, Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100 or www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org.
Interpreting the Brooklyn Landscape. Through Sept. 10. Four Artists: Gregory Frux, Arthur Kvarnstrom, Charles Tang and Robert Weiss. {read more...}

OEM, at Borough Hall, Urges Preparedness
In honor of National Preparedness Month, the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) was stationed yesterday at Borough Hall for its Ready New York campaign, designed to teach New Yorkers how to prepare themselves for emergencies of any kind. Assisted by volunteers from the NYC Citizen Corps Council, the OEM manned booths, handed out preparedness literature, and stressed the importance of being ready to pick up and leave at a moment’s notice. Examples of a Go-Bag, a bag {read more...}
Offers Sought for Landmarked Williamsburg Savings Bank Building
Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

WILLIAMSBURG — The historic Williamsburg Savings Bank building — the Williamsburg version, not the iconic tower version in Fort Greene — is on the market.

There is no asking price; offers are being accepted, according to Mark Lively and Brendan Maddigan, who are representing the seller.

The building, at 151-175 Broadway, corner of Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, is a well -known historic property that can offer the purchaser a rare opportunity to own a unique institutional structure {read more...}

Raccoon Control Bill Welcomed in Brooklyn
Disease-Ridden Animals’ Numbers Increasing Fast

By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — A new bill by a Queens City Councilwoman to get tough on raccoons has found a sympathetic echo in Brooklyn, especially from a Greenwood Heights community activist who has been {read more...}

College Beat Opening Stages
St. Francis, LIU Men’s Soccer Squads Kick Off 2010 With Mixed Results

By John Torenli
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Coming off its best season in a dozen years, the St. Francis College men’s soccer team hoped to get the 2010 campaign off to a solid start Wednesday night in Storrs, Conn.

But the 22nd-ranked Huskies foiled Brooklyn Heights’ Terriers by staving off a couple of early threats before cruising to a 2-0 victory at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium.

“We played well tonight against a ranked opponent,” said St. Francis coach Tom Giovatto, {read more...}

Brooklyn Eagle’s Journal Of Neighborhood Malfeasance
September 2, 2010

By Alison Fox

BOERUM HILL — A woman’s bag was stolen while she worked on Schermerhorn Street near Smith Street. The bag went missing sometime between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 28. The 32-year-old victim canceled her credit {read more...}

BP Markowitz Honors Islamic Center, Rabbi at Borough Hall
Brooklyn Has Long Tradition of Interfaith Activities

By Francesca Norsen Tate
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BOROUGH HALL — An Islamic Center and a rabbi, both of whom have worked to build interfaith cooperation, were honored at Brooklyn Borough Hall’s 7th Avenue Iftar Dinner on Wednesday, Sept. 1. Linda Sarsour, master of ceremony along with Mian Quadry, pointed out that Borough President Marty Markowitz is the first borough president to host iftars (an iftar is a meal that breaks the daytime fast during each day of {read more...}

Charges, Counter-Charges Heat Up Assembly Race
Hyer-Spencer, Challenger Trade Barbs in Bay Ridge

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE — At Con Edison you lobbied for electric rate increases! No I did not, but you cater to special interests!

Those charges and counter-charges are at the center of a campaign battle between Democrat Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer, firing the first charge, and Republican-Conservative challenger Nicole Malliotakis, firing the second.

“She is masquerading as something that she is not. The voters deserve better,” said Hyer-Spencer, running for a third term {read more...}

Dem Primary for Attorney General’s Race Nears
Civil Confinement for Offenders Like Brooklyn ‘AIDS Monster’ Debated

By Michael Gormley
Associated Press and
Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats seeking to be New York’s next attorney general tackled a new issue in their debates — how to handle the civil confinement of some sex offenders after they’ve completed their sentences.

The civil confinement of sex offenders was raised in this week’s debate after getting little attention in the half-dozen forums so far. It’s a tricky one for Democrats hoping to {read more...}

Brooklyn Brain-Damage Beating Trial Looms in Serbia
By Dusan Stojanovic
Associated Press

BELGRADE, Serbia — The trial for a of a former college basketball player charged with beating a Brooklyn college student into a coma and then fleeing to his native Serbia after jumping bail in the U.S. is slated to begin this month, Serbian judges said.

Miladin Kovacevic is accused of “inflicting severe bodily {read more...}

Man in Letterman Blackmail Plot Freed
Brooklyn Law Prof. Gerald Shargel Led Unique Defense

By Jennifer Peltz
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman over the comedian’s office affairs was freed from jail Thursday, city Correction Department records show. Robert “Joe” Halderman served four months of his six-month sentence in the case, which exposed Letterman’s personal {read more...}

Preservation of Shore Hill Senior Housing Celebrated
‘Unique Partnership’ Credited With Success

Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE — Residents, state housing and elected officials helped celebrate the preservation of 558 units of affordable senior housing at Shore Hill Housing in Bay Ridge recently.

Shore Hill, a rent-subsidized complex for seniors and the disabled that has been in operation since 1977, underwent an 18-month, $16 million rehabilitation project that included new building operating systems, new fixtures, HVAC, doors, windows and landscaping.

“This was a significant undertaking that would {read more...}

Ridgewood Bank Teaches Kids To Save
Ridgewood Savings Bank employees Mark Stazzone (far left) and Ingrid Valentin (far right) pose with students during the bank’s Teach Children To Save Program conducted recently at Saint Frances Cabrini School, 181 Suydam St. in Cobble Hill. This community effort involved Ridgewood employees presenting personal finance and savings lessons to 4,500 students in junior and senior high schools in Brooklyn and other boroughs. Ridgewood has five branches in Brooklyn.

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Trade Brooklyn: ‘Stimulus Program for Business’ at Navy Yard Sept. 14
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD — “Trade Brooklyn: A Stimulus Program for Business” will take place at Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Tuesday, Sept. 14.

Sponsored by the Cardinal Trade Group, a New York business event management company, the show {read more...}

‘Extraordinary People in Heart of Brooklyn’ Postcard Campaign Launched
BROOKLYN — Heart of Brooklyn (HOB), in partnership with the Washington Avenue-Prospect Heights Association and the Vanderbilt Avenue Merchants District, has announced a new campaign championing the small businesses that make Prospect Heights so unique.

Called the “Extraordinary People, Places {read more...}

Free Stuff To Do!
Rent is high, so keep your social life cheap.

If you’re not afraid of green slimy things, put on your hiking boots and head out with the Urban Park Rangers to look for all the reptiles and amphibians that Prospect Park has to offer. Meet at the Picnic House {read more...}
Next DUMBO Gallery Walk Sept. 2
DUMBO 1st Thursday Gallery Walks are a festive occasion for art lovers and collectors to experience a variety of galleries and work in one Brooklyn neighborhood. The next walk will be held this Thursday, Sept. 2. On display are works {read more...}
Brooklyn Book Festival For Young Book Lovers, Too
The Brooklyn Book Festival is not just grownups’ favorite literary event. There are loads of activities for young book lovers, including book readings, a performance of children’s classics by the Troupe Theatre, author signings and arts & crafts at the Target Children’s Area (and photo ops with Bullseye, Target’s lovable mascot dog). Teens will enjoy readings by the city’s top teen poets and famous authors of Young Adult novels. Put a big red checkmark on your calendar for Sunday, Sept. {read more...}
Robin Hood: Prince of...MONSTERS!
Monster Literature’s upcoming encore performance of Robin Hood: Prince of...MONSTERS! takes place at the Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene on Saturday, Sept. 11 at 2 and 4 p.m. This one day only presentation featuring an evil wizard, a scaredycat Robin Hood and a band of merry monsters is part of the Bookends event series leading up to the Book Festival main event on Sept. 12. See www.monsterliterature.com.

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Questions? Comments? Sound off to the {read more...}
Brooklyn’s Jallicia Allicia Jolly Wins Scholarship
Jallicia Allicia Jolly, a 2010 graduate of Secondary School for Law in Brooklyn, has received a $2,000 scholarship from the Financial Service Centers of America (FiSCA), the national trade association representing the financial service center industry. She will be attending {read more...}
Free Back to School Concert in Carroll Park
Favorite kids entertainer Audra Rox! will kick off the fall season with a free back-to-school concert in Carroll Park (Carroll Street & Smith Street), Brooklyn. Part of the Carroll Park Presents Kids Concert Series, the event takes place Sunday, September {read more...}
Jazz on Montague
The dulcet tones of Duke Ellington’s “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” and other jazz classics can be heard nearly every afternoon on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. Willie Upbin, a seventh-grader at Packer Collegiate Institute and member of Packer’s jazz band, gathers rave reviews — and makes about $20 an hour — as he plays {read more...}
Brooklyn Eagle’s Journal Of Neighborhood Malfeasance
September 2, 2010

By Alison Fox

PARK SLOPE — A man was mugged on the corner of Sixth Avenue near St. John’s Place while walking home from the Canal Bar on Wednesday, Aug. 25 shortly after midnight. Two bicycle-riding men speaking Spanish approached him, {read more...}

Brooklyn Broadside
Focus of Brooklyn Bridge Park Could Soon Move to DUMBO

By Dennis Holt

BROOKLYN — With the proposal to convert the roofless Tobacco Warehouse into a year-round cultural and entertainment center, attention is now being paid to what one observer has called the “unheralded” part of Brooklyn Bridge Park — the part that starts beneath the Brooklyn Bridge and runs east to Jay Street.

(It is possible {read more...}

Bay Ridge Eagle
Citizen Kane’s Bay Ridge Beat: September 2, 2010

By Tom Kane

Bring Paul Home ... My friend Paul Kasbar, 38, has been living with Multiple Sclerosis, quite courageously, for many years. His vibrant spirit and his love of life have been evident since he played little league baseball for me at St. Patrick’s many years ago. Paul is currently in the wonderful Augustana Nursing Home, but cannot go back home until his apartment has been modified for “handicap access” and we all know what that can cost. So, a {read more...}

Bay Ridge Eagle
Heff’s Corner: That’s Entertainment!

By John M. Heffernan

This past Saturday our vocal group The Rhapsody Players performed at a fund-raiser for the St. John's Senior Center at St. John's Parish Hall on 99th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway to an enthusiastic crowd of local citizens.

The show was a success due to the combined efforts of the artists, Center Director Michael Coluccio and the always-faithful people of Bay Ridge.

While walking home from the performance it occurred to me that Bay Ridge has always been blessed {read more...}

Bay Ridge Eagle
Parkville League Report: Kings Rule Over Warriors

By Bob Cavaliere

KINGS 11 WARRIORS 6

The Kings drew first blood in their recent encounter with the Warriors thanks to an RBI from Henry “Meat Grinder” Detesky. Joseph “A Train” Natelli lined a fastball for a base hit and stole second as well as third before scoring on Detesky’s hit.

Detesky was king of the hill for the Kings and kept the Warriors off the board, striking out two batters and fielding a grounder back to the mound.

The second inning produced {read more...}

Bay Ridge Eagle
Cannonball Project Fires Up Third Ave. Festival

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

The ever-popular Third Avenue Festival by the Merchants of Third Avenue (M.T.A.) gets more exciting each year. This year on Sunday, October 3, the day after the Ragamuffin Parade, there will be a bevy of artistic talent in the premier shopping avenue’s businesses thanks to the new Cannonball Project.

“The concept takes its inspiration from the Cow Parade in the city in 2000 when fiberglass cows were decorated by artists and displayed all over the city,” said project {read more...}

Bay Ridge Eagle
Community Profile: Great Service, Community Activity Spell Success for Realtor Julie Thum

By Eddie Esses

From the first viewing to the final closing, real estate broker Julie Thum has always taken pride in providing the highest level of service while remaining active in the Bay Ridge community.

Julie has worked as a real estate broker in Bay Ridge for more than 20 years. She is the owner {read more...}

Bay Ridge Eagle
Learning To ‘Vote the New Way’

Last Thursday, in a hands-on demonstration of the new electronic voting machines co-hosted by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, the New York Board of Elections and The Arab American Association of NY (AAANY), Bay Ridgeites were able to test out new machines that will be used for the fall elections.

The AAANY was chosen as a site of the "Mark it. Scan It. Vote the New Way" voter-education event because of its wide access to Brooklyn's Arab-American community, which {read more...}

Bay Ridge Eagle
Author Meets Her Fans

Author Lisa Unger appeared at The BookMark Shoppe on Third Avenue for a reading and signing of her latest novel, Fragile. She has also authored Die For You, Beautiful Lies, and Blackout and enjoys a loyal following. Dozens of her fans crowded the store to meet her this past Friday. Pictured are BookMark Shoppe proprietors Bina Valenzano, left, and Christine Freglette, right, with Lisa Unger, center.

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Bay Ridge Eagle
Life Scout Celebrates Bay Ridge Veterans

Vasili Tettonis, a 15-year-old Life Scout of Troop 715, hosted an event to honor some of the war veterans in the Bay Ridge community last Saturday as a part of his Eagle Scout project. The event took place at D.G.K. Parochial School of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church on 85th Street and Ridge Boulevard.

With the help of the community, Vasili and his troop collected contributions, raising more than $2,600 to put on the event and assemble care packages for {read more...}

Bay Ridge Eagle
Down to Wire in 13th C.D.:Allegretti Vs. Grimm In Hot GOP Primary

Clinton Coming Here To Back Democrat Incumbent McMahon

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

The September 14 Republican primary election to determine who will be the official GOP challenger to Democrat Congressman Michael McMahon is turning into a hot battle featuring a bevy of charges {read more...}

Bay Ridge Eagle
Happy Birthday to Sofia at Marathon!

The staff of the Third Avenue branch of Marathon Bank gathered recently to celebrate the birthday of Assistant Branch Manager Sofia Karagiannis, seated. Her friend Bobby Howe, a former textile executive, baked the cake, which all agreed was delicious. Standing, from left, are Howe, Cynthia Velasquez, assistant head teller; Yesenia Echevarria, head teller; Sabrina Compton, teller; and Sophia Veneris, who is in charge of customer service at the Marathon Bank on 72nd Street and Third Avenue.

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Brooklyn Today: Thursday, September 2, 2010
Good morning. Today is the 245th day of the year. It is the anniversary of the Great Fire of London in 1666, which started in the wooden house of a baker. During the next three days, more than 13,000 houses {read more...}
Legal Events Calenadar
September 2, 2010

Mon. Sept. 6, LABOR DAY - State and federal courts closed; Brooklyn Bar Association closed.

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Tues. Sept. 7, CLE: Columbian Lawyers Assoc. - Ethics Update, 6 p.m. Approved for 1 CLE credit (Ethics), the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn {read more...}
On This Day in History: September 2
Tennis, Anyone?

At the end of every summer tennis royalty descend on New York for the U.S. Open, one of the four most prestigious tournaments on the professional tennis circuit. The sport has come a long way in attracting fans and players since it first became popular in the 19th century.

Tennis as we know it was invented in England in 1873 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, a British army officer, for use at lawn parties. The game was introduced into Bermuda the {read more...}

Yesterday in Brooklyn
Bob Diamond, Famed Rail Buff, Calls It Quits
Tunnel Tours Were Popular, But Trolley Plans Weren’t

By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — Bob Diamond — the Flatbush transit buff whose discovery of the old Long Island Railroad tunnel under Atlantic Avenue and his tunnel tours were met with enthusiasm but whose efforts to revive trolleys in Red Hook were sidetracked — informed the Eagle Wednesday that he is retiring and leaving Brooklyn.

“The last public tunnel tour will be on Sept. 12. After that, I’m discontinuing them and leaving Brooklyn,” he {read more...}

Fight at Subway Station Ends With Violence in Crown Heights
Man Taken to Hospital With Stab Wounds; Trains Delayed

By Stephen R. Witt
And Miranda Neubauer
Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle

CROWN HEIGHTS — A man was stabbed in the chest at the Utica Avenue-Eastern Parkway subway station Tuesday afternoon and was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition, but is “not likely” to die, according to a Police Department spokesman. Three assailants are being sought in connection to the crime.

Police say the incident occurred at 2:50 p.m. on the Manhattan-bound lower level {read more...}

Internet Boutique Leases Retail Space on Myrtle Avenue
CLINTON HILL — CPEX also reports the “exciting” lease of a retail space at 366 Myrtle Ave. in Clinton Hill by Stone Boutique, an Internet-based business that is moving “from clicks to bricks,” according to Tim King, principal with CPEX.

Stone Boutique is described as “a unique women’s lifestyle boutique” that offers “amazing apparel, footwear, jewelry, handbags, accessories and gifts from established and emerging brands across the globe.

The rent of $3,400 per month worked out to a price of approximately $34.25 {read more...}

E. Flatbush Industrial Property Changes Hands
Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

EAST FLATBUSH — Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services in Brooklyn reports the sale of an industrial property in East Flatbush.

The 10,000-square-foot property, at 1266 Ralph Ave., sold for $800,000, according to J.D. Parker, regional manager of the firm’s Brooklyn office.

Matthew Fotis and Shlomo Manne at Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a partnership. Manne also secured the buyer, a private investor.

“Because of our understanding of the submarket we were able to {read more...}

Commercial Condo Space Changes Hands for $1.6 Million
DUMBO — CPEX Real Estate Services Division has arranged the sale of a commercial condominium on the ground floor of a building at 79 Bridge St. in DUMBO.

The sale price was $1.6 million, or $364 per square foot, according to CPEX investment specialists Scott Burk, Esq., and Brian Leary, senior managing director, who handled the transaction.

The property features approximately 100 feet of frontage on Bridge Street while the interior space includes approximately 4,400 square feet of retail or commercial office {read more...}

Seafood Distribution Company Aqua Best Expands Near Brooklyn Navy Yard
Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates Inc. (KDA) reports a signed lease expansion with Aqua Best Inc., a seafood distribution company, for commercial space in Wallabout.

Aqua Best has signed a five-year lease for the building at 23-25-27 Spencer St., near the Brooklyn Navy {read more...}

Andrea, New Fort Greene Building, Is Totally Rented
Was Developed by Catsimatidis of Red Apple Supermarket Fame

FORT GREENE — The 95 residential units in the mixed use nine-story building The Andrea, at 218 Myrtle Ave., have all been rented, developer John Catsimatidis reported Wednesday.

Negotiations on leasing approximately {read more...}

Controversy Centers Around B’klyn College
After Alum Pulls Donation, College Stands Its Ground

By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

FLATBUSH — Brooklyn College alum Bruce Kesler has just cut his alma mater out of his will, since he does not agree with the political leanings of one of the {read more...}

Distract This!
Cyclones Roll On Despite Early Clinching, Ongoing Backman Rumors

Cyclones manager Wally Backman lives in Bay Ridge, works in Coney Island and continues to say that his main focus remains on developing players at Brooklyn’s MCU Park while working toward the Class A franchise by the sea’s first-ever outright New York-Penn League championship.

Judging from the job he’s done thus far, it’s hard to argue with the fiery skipper.

Though reports surfaced yesterday that the former Mets second baseman and member of the 1986 World Series team is keeping an eye {read more...}

New Judicial Pay Lawsuit Set for This Month in Court
Brooklyn Judges Not Named Plaintiffs, But Affected Along With Entire Judiciary

By Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

NEW YORK — With a new judicial-pay lawsuit expected to return to court this month, Brooklyn judges might have a new chance to get their first {read more...}

Staten Island Prosecutors Stepping in for Senator Parker’s Assault Trial in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Prosecutor Suspended Without Pay Due to Political Rivalry and Legal Conflict

By Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

JAY STREET — As the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office disentangles themselves from the assault trial of state Sen. Kevin Parker, the prosecutor who created the conflict and controversy is still suspended without pay, and Staten Island prosecutors are stepping in to replace him.

There have been no reports that Brooklyn assistant district attorney Wynton Sharpe had anything to do with the prosecution of Sen. Parker {read more...}

Court Street Attorney Renews Pleas for Return of Grandmother’s Corpse
Police Add $5,000 to Make Reward $35,000

By Frank Eltman
Associated Press
Ryan Thompson
and Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A Court Street attorney and his relatives renewed their pleas this week for information leading to the return of his grandmother’s body, whose remains were stolen from a mausoleum at a Long Island cemetery operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.

“The taking of her body has shattered our peace, and the inability to know that our mother is at rest will haunt {read more...}

ASK THE DA
“BROOKLYN D.A. ACTION CENTER”

By Charles J. Hynes
Brooklyn District Attorney

I would like to resolve a long-standing dispute with my landlord. Can anyone in your office help me?

If the problem is connected to a building in Brooklyn, you can call upon the District Attorney’s Action Center (DAAC). The DAAC has been providing assistance to the borough’s residents {read more...}

Bill Clinton Coming To Campaign for Rep. McMahon
Bay Ridge-Staten Island Rep Faces Strong GOP Opposition

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN — As former President Bill Clinton plans to headline a campaign rally for Congressman Michael McMahon Thursday at Wagner College in Staten Island, GOP opponents Michael Allegretti and Michael Grimm are slugging it out in preparation for their Sept. 14 primary contest.

“I am {read more...}

Downtown B’klyn Cop Accused Of Not Helping Girl Suspended
Said He Didn’t Know CPR; Girl Died of Asthma Attack

BROOKLYN— A police officer from Downtown Brooklyn’s 84th Precinct accused of not helping an 11-year-old girl dying of an asthma attack has been suspended without pay.

Brooklyn mother Carmen Ojeda was driving her {read more...}

‘Roots of Knowledge’ in Sunset Park
Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) new Interim Executive Director Linda Johnson (fifth from left) was welcomed to Sunset Park by Councilwoman Sara Gonzalez (sixth from left) at the unveiling of a new mural titled “Roots of Knowledge.” About a dozen students spent seven weeks working on the public art project under the guidance of the nonprofit Groundswell. Also attending were Anthony W. Crowell, chair, BPL; Rob Krulak, acting director, Groundswell; and Belle Benfield, lead artist. Yang Lieu, owner of La Vida {read more...}
An Early Look at The New Brooklyn Cookbook
The New Brooklyn Cookbook, by Park Slope husband and wife team Melissa and Brendan Vaughan, is a compilation of iconic recipes, stories and photos from the borough’s greatest new restaurants. While it won’t be released until Oct. 5, the Brooklyn Kitchen is holding a tasting, book signing and panel discussion that will feature Sean Rembold {read more...}
Paper Silhouettes Featured at Park Slope Gallery
By Caitlin McNamara

Paper, scissors and frames, oh my!

These elements an art exhibition make, in the skilled hands of Park Slope artist Barbara Ensor. Her wistful black paper silhouttes, each one mounted in an elaborate frame, reflect the centuries-old tradition of woodblock ink prints.

“Take Me Home,” opens Sept. 9 at the intimate Phyllis Stigliano Gallery on Eighth Avenue in Park Slope and runs through the end of the year.

While the show is image driven, added text is a central element, {read more...}

Brooklyn Eagle’s Journal Of Neighborhood Malfeasance
September 1, 2010

By Alison Fox

GOWANUS — A man’s work truck was broken into while he was out to lunch on Friday, Aug. 27. While sitting in his car, the 32-year-old victim saw two perps put the stolen equipment into a blue four-door {read more...}

Chamber Music Group Announces Fall Series
The Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, under artistic director Carmit Zori, has set a series of four Friday evening concerts at the First Unitarian Chapel on Pierrepont Street, near Monroe Place. The first one, featuring works by Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms, {read more...}
Heights Players Return With Cuckoo’s Nest
The Heights Players return for their 55th season with One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, based on the novel by Ken Kesey about a man who disrupts the workings of an insane asylum. The initial performance is Friday, September 10, at {read more...}
Hills & Gardens
LICH Dental Clinic’s Curious Move

By Trudy Whitman

We were told that it would be a long and complicated procedure for Long Island College Hospital (LICH) to unravel its relationship with Continuum Health Partners — a very unhappy marriage that reached a breaking point when Continuum threatened the closure of LICH’s pediatric, obstetric, and dentistry departments — while merging with SUNY Downstate. Last summer SUNY Downstate’s president, Dr. John La Rosa, predicted that the merger proposed by a memorandum of understanding might be completed within six {read more...}

Historically Speaking:
America’s Foreign Policy

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

Ever since Native Americans welcomed immigrants to our shores, our country has endured periodic scenarios of antipathy to other foreigners who weren’t built in our image. Last month, a reaction to the latest surge of xenophobia resulted in a protest march across the Brooklyn Bridge demanding {read more...}

FROM THE BROOKLYN AERIE
September 1, 2010

A Weekly Column of Trivia and Observations

By David Ansel Weiss
weissda43@gmail.com

I wonder if the golfers who play at the Dyker Park golf course this weekend realize that 234 years ago when the British landed there some 20,000 troops that ended up defeating General Washington and the Continental Army in the Battle of Brooklyn, the first — {read more...}

Review & Comment:
Where Obama Wasn’t

For three rainy days last week my wife Elaine and I were on Martha’s Vineyard, while President Obama and his family also were on the island. We didn’t meet, although we passed the compound where he was staying several times, and once we were stopped while his motorcade pulled out, bound, as we later learned, for lunch at Nancy’s Restaurant in Oak Bluffs. It was a small motorcade, with ordinary-looking vehicles.

One thing that distinguished our island visit from the {read more...}

The First Estate
September 1

Heights Synagogue Reaches Out to Muslims

Clergy Association’s New President Is Active at Dawood Mosque

By Francesca Norsen Tate

The Brooklyn Heights Synagogue provided an oasis on August 25 from the increasing national acrimony over the building of Cordoba House, the Islamic Cultural Center to be opened near the site of the World Trade Center. The Reform branch synagogue hosted what is now a tradition — its third annual Iftar for friends and members of the Dawood Mosque on State Street.

An Iftar is {read more...}

Brooklyn Today: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
This Morning's News

Hurricane Earl Weakens, But Locals Are Wary [Gothamist]

Dumbo Gets Its First Stoplight [Brownstoner]

Behold Willoughby Square Park [Brownstoner]

Good morning. Today is the 244th day of the year. On this day in 1939, after signing a non-aggression {read more...}

Legal Events Calendar
September 1, 2010

Mon. Sept. 6, LABOR DAY - State and federal courts closed; Brooklyn Bar Association closed.

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Tues. Sept. 7, CLE: Columbian Lawyers Assoc. - Ethics Update, 6 p.m. Approved for 1 CLE credit (Ethics), the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn {read more...}
Historically Speaking:Brooklyn Through The Years — September
By John B. Manbeck
A Brooklyn historian
Special to The Eagle

“Sept,” as in September, means the number seven. So if September is the seventh month, how come it’s our ninth month? Because of the early Roman calendar, which has changed at least {read more...}

On This Day in History: September 1
‘Top Lawyer of Last Resort’

Alan Dershowitz was born in Brooklyn on September 1, 1938. After graduation from Brooklyn College and Yale Law School he joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judges David Bazelon and Arthur Goldberg.

Dershowitz is known for defending clients such as Anatoly Scharansky, Claus Von Bulow, O.J. Simpson, Michael Milen, Mike {read more...}

On This Day in History: September 1
Walker Takes a Walk

James John Walker started out as a songwriter in 1908. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song “Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?” That song earned him more than $10,000 over the next 30 years. But Walker’s political-minded father had other ideas for him and he exchanged Tin Pan Alley for a political career.

Walker had playboy tendencies. He loved show business and being around show people. In fact he loved one so much, {read more...}




 

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