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ART 101: 101 Grand St., between Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg. (718) 302-2242 or www.art101brooklyn.com.
“Just Words.” Through April 4. An exhibition of new work by Peter Scibetta.

BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) {read more...}

BROOKLYN -- The world-famous Coney Island Cyclone is revved up and ready to roll for the 2010 season on Sunday, March 28, at noon.

As he has in past years, Borough {read more...}

JAY STREET – A Brooklyn man dodged a rap for murder in the first degree in Brooklyn Supreme Court, but was still convicted of murder in the second degree for that killing and another killing.

Tyreek Maynard {read more...}

Robert Mitchell, a junior forward who played in 31 games this season for the Pirates, appeared in court last week in Newark via video conference. He’s held on $650,000 bail. His attorney entered the not guilty plea.

The 23-year-old Brooklyn resident is accused of robbing eight people in a house in South Orange on Monday. He is charged with {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE – Park Slope may take the cake with the most restaurants participating in the fabulous “Dine in Brooklyn” event from March 15 to 25. But Bay Ridge is close behind as the second-most-active community in the ever-popular promotion.

The cooperation and involvement of the Southwest Brooklyn business and residential hub makes the Bay Ridge restaurants “taste bud-dies” among the more than 200 eateries at the Dine in Brooklyn plate {read more...}

“We’ve been planning Toren {read more...}

• East New York. A brick mixed-use property at 333 New Lots Ave., between Pennsylvania and Georgia avenues, {read more...}

BROOKLYN -- Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe joined some of the city’s greenest at the 20th Annual Parks & Recreation Awards ceremony on March 11. Top honors included Rookie of the Year, Manager of the {read more...}

BROOKLYN -- Poet Willie Perdomo will read from his work at New York City College of Technology’s (City Tech) Annual Literary Arts Festival, to be held in the college’s 900-seat Klitgord Center Auditorium, 285 Jay St. (at Tillary), Downtown Brooklyn, on Thursday, April 29, beginning at 5 p.m.

Willie Perdomo grew up in East Harlem and first gained prominence as one of the poets at the Nuyorican Café in Manhattan. He is the {read more...}

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By Ryan McLendon
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Ben Raisher watches as the writhing Octopus on his plate has its tentacles clipped with giant shears, then squirms in amber sesame oil like a pile of bisected earthworms.

With {read more...}

By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

REMSEN STREET – Good news arrived on the doorstep of the Brooklyn Bar’s Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP) last month when it was informed that the state bar foundation was issuing it a substantial amount of cash for its foreclosure intervention project. But even better news arrived on Thursday when Judge Barry Kamins came by with a $15,000 check. Kamins, the Kings County Administrative Judge for Criminal {read more...}

It’s less than three weeks until Opening Day for the New York Mets, but for new Cyclones manager Wally Backman, the three-month wait for the start of Brooklyn’s 10th anniversary season on Coney Island is starting to feel interminable.

“I know the weather’s warming up a bit up in New York, and that means the summer’s not far away,” {read more...}

Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — Madison Estates and Properties, a Brooklyn firm, reports the sale of four properties recently in very separate areas of Brooklyn that may reflect what many are hoping is an upturn in the residential real estate market.

“We are seeing more activity with less price discounts, and even a few bidding wars, which actually kind of surprised us,” said Gerard Longo, Madison Estates owner and president of the Brooklyn {read more...}

The exhibit is being displayed through April 28 in the Alumni Room Gallery, Tuohy Hall, St., 245 {read more...}

BROOKLYN — It pays now and then, when you are in the news business, to stand back from the daily tat-tat of events to take stock, if there is anything to take stock of.

And there is such a moment for Brooklyn now.

There are five major development projects on the stage worthy {read more...}

President Steve Chiaino reports that the Bay Ridge Lawyers will have a timely session at their March 24 gathering entitled “The Basics of Representing the Client in the Purchase or Sale of a Business.”

The guest speaker, when the BRLA sit down at J.T’s Restaurant on Third Avenue at 6:30 p.m. that {read more...}

We’ve just about made it through another winter, and it’s worth remembering that our winters are not nearly as harsh as those of our forbears.’ During the 19th century, the East River was regularly rife with enormous chunks of ice that jammed up ferry traffic, leaving freezing passengers stuck out in the middle of the harbor for hours on end. Until 1883, there {read more...}

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BROOKLYN – After nearly a year of intense construction, the Pier 1 section of Brooklyn Bridge Park will open to the public on Monday.

The opening will be preceded by an invitation-only groundbreaking attended by Gov. David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Borough President Marty Markowitz and other state and local officials.

At the other end of the new addition to the park, constructed on the foundations of the Port Authority’s old Piers 1-6, a {read more...}

By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DUMBO — Community Board 2’s Land Use Committee voted 8-3 (with two abstentions) Wednesday night to recommend approval for Toll Brothers’ planned development in DUMBO.

The three who opposed the project were joining members of the DUMBO Neighborhood Alliance (DNA) in their objection to a proposed two-story tower on the roof.

In a letter to Lawrence Whiteside, Land Use Committee chair, the DNA said it looked awkward from a street-level perspective.

“While we admire the {read more...}

With funding from Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez (D-Brooklyn), the Greenway will enhance waterfront access, improve pedestrian and bicycle safety and increase recreational opportunities {read more...}

By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN – More than 200 Brooklyn eateries have been serving affordable three-course meals in their fundraising efforts since Monday as part of the borough-wide Dine in Brooklyn promotion.

The seventh annual Brooklyn Restaurant week, which lasts through March 25, is an initiative of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Best of Brooklyn Inc., a non-profit overseen by the borough president. It opens up Brooklyn diners to eclectic and affordable meals at {read more...}

By Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — Early in the morning, in the outside courtyard of the Brooklyn Eagle office, an ordinary-looking fellow sets up a table amidst men carrying huge rolls of paper to the printing press.

This man takes out a notebook and a pen, {read more...}

Letitia James (D-Fort Greene, Clinton Hill) is claiming unspecified damages for an injury she reportedly sustained to her leg {read more...}

BROOKLYN (AP) — No one knew if Caitlin Sarubbi, daughter of a firefighter from Gerritsen Beach, would live through her first night.

Twenty years later, she's on leave from her freshman year at Harvard to race on the U.S. Ski Team at the 2010 Paralympics.

Born with a very {read more...}

Owned and operated by Lauren Sullivan and Nell Mendlinger, who describe themselves as “ animal owners and lovers,” Abby on Argyle also serves pet owners in Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Caton Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Ditmas Park, Fiske Terrace, East and West Midwood, Midwood and Nottingham.

“I have always been an animal person, and after several years working in corporate {read more...}

Brooklyn business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals are invited to “An Evening of Networking” to benefit the American Cancer Society Brooklyn Regional Office, planned from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 25, in {read more...}

CPEX Real Estate reports that the educational center has leased 1,800 square {read more...}

Two Trees Management Co., the landlord, made the announcement this week , noting that two are in the building at 55 Washington St., {read more...}

Sponsored by Sustainable Flatbush, a nonprofit organization that brings neighbors together {read more...}

His presentation will take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 22, on campus in Memorial Hall on Ryerson Walk. A native of Valencia, Spain, Calatrava — with {read more...}

Michael Psilakis, the chef at Manhattan’s Kefi and Anthos, procured a liquor license for what could be a new biergarten in Williamsburg. According to {read more...}

Fusion cuisine has been growing in popularity over the last decade. Diners, always looking for new tastes, embrace the concept and encourage its spread. Savvy restaurant owners know that they can attract diverse customers by offering a wide range of entrees that will surely please everyone in dining parties. Better yet, the customer may be willing to sample a different cuisine when it is offered alongside dishes they already know. OKAMI, which bills itself as an {read more...}

There’s something inherently funny about men in drag. Why, I’m not sure, but when a man — especially a particularly mannish man — appears in a dress and some rouge, laughter soon follows. The case was no different for Jere Williams and Steve Velardi, who played Leo Clark and Jack Gable, respectively, in the New York premiere of Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies: The moment they burst onto the Heights Players’ stage in a glamorous pair of frocks and a hideous set of wigs, the audience began cracking up.

It wasn’t the first time, though, during the evening that laughs rang through the theater; the {read more...}

BROOKLYN — Although best-known as home of Plymouth Rock, the Boston Red Sox, the Kennedy compound and the Boston Tea Party, Massachusetts is widely acclaimed for its elite Boston Marathon. More than 20,000 {read more...}

BROOKLYN — We received at home Tuesday the 2010 Census forms, which are the easiest such forms concocted in decades. People no longer receive the so-called long forms, which did elicit a lot of information but discouraged a lot of people from taking the time.

The form was put in the mail {read more...}

Peace and quiet is what many troubled residents of the 93rd Street “problem block” between Third and Fourth avenues desire. Can they get it?

To help confront the block’s problems and deal {read more...}

Smile and say cheese, Bay Ridge! The city and Community Board 10 are working on a project to create and install tiled mural artworks for the Bay Ridge 86th Street R subway station at Fourth {read more...}

Francesca Norsen Tate, editor

Assumption Gala, Honoring Bob Buckholz, Offers Cheery Respite From Weekend Storm

The balm to Saturday’s stormy weather could be found right on Cranberry Street.

The tempest did not deter partygoers at Assumption {read more...}

Xaverian musical … Beginning this Friday, March 19, Xaverian Dramatics proudly presents 13: A New Musical for two weekends. I caught a rehearsal this past Saturday and was pleasantly surprised. Not because I didn’t trust faculty director Joseph Appel’s choice of show, but because I got to watch young people play young characters with all the heart and soul and energy only a teenager can muster up. It was a delight to see. Appel, who saw the Broadway {read more...}

If you’re a successful Fantasy Baseball player, you know that it’s nearly impossible to finish near the top of the standings without having power at the corners. Unless you’ve secured significant pop at both First Base and Third Base, it’s a good bet you’ll be one of the first in your league looking {read more...}

Children ranging in age from kindergarten through twelfth grade participated in drills and exercises alongside NETS player Josh Boone, NETS staff, dancers and team mascot, Sly.

This second annual event is part of the “Shoot for Better Health” campaign, which encourages students to score a perfect 5-2-1-0 {read more...}

Second photo: Mary Ann Walsh of Community Board 10, The Bay Ridge Community Council, and Kassenbrock Memorial Fund (just to name a few) receives a proclamation from Senator Golden for all of the work she does in helping Bay Ridge.

Third photo: Paula Katinas, lead columnist for The Home Reporter and Spectator {read more...}