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Today in Brooklyn
Medical Doctors Fire Back After Changeover at LICH
Sharply Worded Statement Is Highly Critical of Parent Body
By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
COBBLE HILL — A day after Continuum Health Partners, parent body of Long Island College Hospital (LICH), announced that president Rita Battles had left the hospital, medical {read more...} IKEA Shuttles Are Adding to Gridlock on Joralemon Street
Popular Downtown Brooklyn Buses Told to ‘Keep Moving’
By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — It’s been just too much of a good thing: Multiple Red Hook-bound IKEA shuttle buses have been idling at their stop on Joralemon Street near Borough Hall, causing traffic gridlock and forcing city buses to discharge their passengers into the street.
Congestion on Joralemon Street has increased in any case since the experimental elimination of left turns from Adams Street onto Tillary Street. Traffic that would normally make a left turn onto Tillary is now pouring onto {read more...} Dark Tide, Pollution Plague Jamaica Bay, B’klyn Beaches
Fish, Wildlife Suffer As Result of Increased Nitrogen Levels
By Sam Kestenbaum
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — The city’s shores are awash with dark and cloudy water this summer, and poor water conditions have been reported at Floyd Bennett Field, Brighton Beach, Coney Island and Jamaica Bay.
Concerned citizens share their accounts on blogs and through e-mails; they describe dark, murky water. At low tide, a foul smell is overpowering in some places, they say — high summer temperatures are in part to blame, exacerbating the existing problem of pollution.
“This summer heat, it {read more...} Ant’s-Eye View
A Delegate Recalls Time at 1972 Democratic Convention
By Pete Eikenberry
Pete Eikenberry © 2008
Recently, it being the political season, I read Hunter Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail — 1972. Thompson, a heavy drinker and admitted drug-abusing reporter and self-styled “hostile [to Nixon] Peace Freak,” covered the 1972 presidential campaign for Rolling Stone. One memorable vignette was his flashback of the day in the 1968 campaign that Nixon’s managers asked Thompson to ride with Nixon in a limousine between stops for an hour to talk pro football on the promise that no political issue could be {read more...} Decrepit Admirals’ Row Houses Must Go, Say Pols, Local Residents, at Rally
Preservationists Insist They Can Be Saved; Residents Say Market Is More Important
By Amy Crawford
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BOROUGH HALL — A diverse crowd registered opinions on the fate of Admirals’ Row on Tuesday night at a boisterous public meeting here.
The meeting was part of the National Guard Bureau’s review process, after which it will determine under what conditions the city can buy the property. The city had planned to lease the land to the Brooklyn Navy Yard after the transfer.
The National Guard, which owns the 6-acre site, launched the review {read more...} Howe’s Brooklyn
Joan Dalton, Now Leading Northfield Bank Finds Market In New Niches: Nonprofits and Kids
JOAN DALTON OF BAY RIDGE has long been affiliated with numerous not-for-profits — as chair of the Bay Ridge Community Service Center, on the advisory board for the Guild for Exceptional Children and elsewhere. Now, she has a tool to help them financially, too. As VP and manager at Northfield Bank’s Bay Ridge branch, she is in charge of helping non-profits set up a “Charitable Now” checking account with the bank. A 501 (c)3 status is required to qualify, but it gives those organizations access to competitive rates, doesn’t require {read more...} How To Solve Preservation Problem On Admirals’ Row
The historic structures on Admirals’ Row across the street from Commodore Barry Park are clearly a nostalgic part of the legacy of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. But these structures have been so neglected for years that decades of tree growth {read more...}
Praveen Mandal, president of Coulomb Technologies, demonstrates how to use a Smartlet charging station for a plug-in hybrid electric/gas vehicle at the Plug-In 2008 conference on plug-in hybrid vehicles in San Jose, Calif.
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By Don Evans
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Forty Albee Square West families, who forced the city to agree to compensate them if it evicts them from their rent-stabilized apartments under eminent domain, celebrated with a communal pot-luck supper this past Tuesday.
The properties involved are three red brick-and-stone row houses nearly a century old, known as 402, 404 and 406 Albee Square West near the corner of Willoughby Street. For many years, the buildings faced the blank brick two-story wall of the parking garage of the Albee Square Mall, {read more...} Must Flea Market Flee?
According to several blogs, the well-known Brooklyn Flea Market in Fort Greene may be facing some opposition, specifically from parishioners of a large church nearby who cite quality-of-life issues such as litter and noise. Councilwoman Letitia James will hold a {read more...}
By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Eagle
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Following this newspaper’s report on July 9 that the landmarked Chase Bank building at 177 Montague St. in Brooklyn Heights had been sold, it was learned that Brian Leary, a partner with Massey {read more...} State Housing Commissioner Grabs a Hammer To Build Homes in Brooklyn
Staff of 25 Joins in At Habitat-NYC Development
Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Eagle
OCEAN HILL/BROWNSVILLE — On one of the hottest days of this summer, a team of about 25 staff members of the NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) — including its commissioner, Deborah VanAmerongen — installed sheet rock and insulation this past weekend at the largest multi-family building ever constructed by Habitat for Humanity worldwide.
Upon its completion in 2009, the 53,000-square-foot multi-family complex in Ocean Hill-Brownsville will provide home-ownership opportunities consist for families who earn between {read more...} Evidence Against Bin Laden`s Driver Is Green Lighted
In the first war-crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay, defense lawyers asked the judge to throw out all the interrogations of defendant Salim Hamdan, the former driver for Osama bin Laden. Attorneys argued that intelligence-gathering should not be used against him after a former FBI agent testified that interrogators did not advise detainees of rights, because the military prison is dedicated to intelligence-gathering not law enforcement. But the judge, ruled this week that constitutional protections against self-incrimination do not apply to enemy combatants.
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Closing Arguments Expected Today in Mortgage-Fraud Case
By Tom Hays
Associated Press
JAY STREET — Civil rights groups claim he was a killer in Haiti but when Emmanuel “Toto” Constant took the witness stand yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court, it was to challenge a more mundane label: real estate swindler.
The former Haitian paramilitary leader, testifying in his own defense at a mortgage fraud trial before Justice Abraham G. Gerges, denied charges he was a key player in various mortgage fraud schemes that cheated lenders out of $1.7 million.
When asked by his {read more...} Brooklyn District Attorney Charges Additional Crimes in Bay Ridge Crack-House Case
By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
JAY STREET – After six suspected Bay Ridge drug dealers appeared in Brooklyn Supreme Court Tuesday, three of them were there to face additional charges.
Two of the three Terrone brothers, Michael and Ross, as well as {read more...} Sewer Swindle in Brooklyn Sends Ex-Inspector to Prison
Buildings Employee Ignored Sewage Pipes for Cash
CADMAN PLAZA EAST – For one Brooklyn plumbing company, properly installing sewage pipes in residential homes, and getting the necessary city approval, was as easy as greasing the unclean hands of the sewage inspector.
Dean A. Massari, 41, a former inspector for the city’s Department of Buildings (DOB), was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to six months in federal prison, three years of supervised release and a $3,000 fine for his role in a scheme in which he accepted {read more...} Grandmother Guilty in Violent Mexican Prostitution Ring
CADMAN PLAZA EAST (AP) — A diminutive grandmother pleaded guilty to her role in a family-run prostitution ring that smuggled women from Mexico to New York who were sometimes violently coerced to perform sex acts.
Consuelo Carreto Valencia, who is from {read more...}
Thurs. July 24, Securities Class Action Litigation: Its Impact and Reform, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Luncheon Keynote address: Hal S. Scott, director, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and professor, Harvard Law School. Presentation: Lisa A. Rickard, president, Institute for Legal {read more...}
News and Notices from Local Elected Officials
July 24, 2008
Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer (D-East Shore/Brooklyn), Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D-Mid-Island) and Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D-North Shore) announced the Assembly passed legislation addressing the subprime mortgage crisis and providing some assistance to at-risk homeowners (A.10817-A).
Under an agreement reached by the Assembly, {read more...} Robberies Hit Bay Ridge Towers
Building on 13th Avenue Also Hit
BAY RIDGE — The Bay Ridge Towers, a middle-income high-rise development at 260 65th St. was the setting for a pair of daylight burglaries last week.
A sentimentally priceless, one-of-a-kind commemorative baseball bat {read more...} The Week in Crime
68th Precinct: Bay Ridge
Compiled by Catherine Napoli
Brooklyn Eagle
IDENTITY THEFT: A 79th Street woman reported that someone got a hold of her personal information and opened a Citibank charge card. The 29-year-old victim reported that charges of $997 had been put on the phony card.
THEFT FROM AUTO: Following her {read more...} Chinese-American Planning Council To Host Walkathon and Family Fair
Brooklyn Branch Provides Vital Services to Seniors
BROOKLYN — The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) continues to provide instrumental service to senior citizens in Brooklyn, home to America’s fourth-largest Chinese-American Community.
In order to expand its citywide senior service programs and centers, CPC {read more...} Fantasy Forecast
July 24, 2008
With the All-Star break complete and the second half well underway, it’s time to check in with the boys from the HK Roto league and see how the season is progressing.
Lou Carducci and his Mean Street Posse have opened up {read more...}
July 24, 2008
Dear Moonlight,
I’m in a 12 team mixed league with eight keepers. My pitching has been suspect all year and I have the first waiver move this week. What do you think of Gio Gonzalez of the A’s?
{read more...} The View from the Cheap Seats
July 24, 2008
By Eddie Mayrose
With the trading deadline approaching, it will be interesting to watch Yankee GM Brian Cashman as he wrestles with the dilemma of how to win today without sacrificing the prospects that will help tomorrow. His Bombers have {read more...} Tom Kane’s Benchside Seats
Poly Prep’s Brockway Named to All-American Lacrosse Team
By Tom Kane
Brooklyn Eagle
Michael Brockway, the Poly Prep lacrosse goalie and co-captain who led his team to the New York City title in 2006, was named SportsGist Athlete of the Week this past June.
As a senior, his team finished {read more...} Monster Mash
Cyclones center fielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis (left) is batting .300 (12-for-40) with a homer and four RBIs over his last 10 games, but couldn’t do much to prevent Brooklyn’s 6-1 loss to the visiting Vermont Lake Monsters on Tuesday night before 6,237 fans at KeySpan Park.
Catcher Jordan Abruzzo, who delivered the go-ahead homer in Monday’s dramatic victory over Staten Island, and John Servidio had two hits apiece for the last-place Cyclones (15-19), who slid six games behind the first-place Yankees in the McNamara Division.
Brooklyn will get a chance to {read more...}
Despite battling injuries throughout the season, Bavendam averaged 11 points and team-highs of 8.3 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game for the Terriers. Her 52 blocked shots, including a single-game school-record nine against Fairleigh Dickinson on Feb. 23, ranked third in the conference this year and boosted her career total to a school-record 236.
Bavendam also became the 11th player in St. Francis history to reach the 1,000-point plateau and closed out her brilliant career with 1,147 points. Her 723 career rebounds place seventh on the Terriers’ all-time list.
Bavendam, who competed on Germany’s Under-20 National Team, is a seven-semester member of the Dean’s List who attends St. Francis on an endowed academic scholarship. She is a member of the school’s Student-Athlete Advisory Board and has {read more...}
Former Lincoln Point Guard Telfair Finds Home With T-Wolves
By John Torenli
Sebastian Telfair hasn’t quite lived up to expectations in the NBA just yet.
The Coney Island-born and bred point guard led Lincoln High School to a then-unprecedented three consecutive P.S.A.L. championships, was selected by Portland with the 13th overall pick in the 2004 draft and had a best-selling biography and ESPN documentary chronicling his rise from projects to pro hoopster before he even played a single game for the Blazers.
Throw in the reported $15 million sneaker deal he got from Adidas, and Telfair appeared set for a long {read more...} Straight From The Bleachers:
From Brooklyn to Beijing
Olympian Volleyballers Gear Up for Olympics With Coney Island Tourney
By John Torenli
Misty May-Treanor took a pass on an opportunity to take another ride on the Cyclone this past weekend prior to her and teammate Kerri Walsh’s second AVP Crocs Tour Brooklyn Open volleyball championship in as many years.
After all, she didn’t want to head to Beijing with bruises all over her body.
“I think it’s the rickety-ness,” May-Treanor said of the world’s most famous roller coaster. “I had to skip it this year.”
May-Treanor and Walsh escaped Brooklyn bruise-free after tuning {read more...} Saving Face …
And the Season Cyclones Climb Back Into Race With Two Big Wins Over Yanks
By John Torenli
Jordan Abruzzo wasn’t the Brooklyn batter at the plate when Yankees reliever Pat Venditte made the national sporting scene with his memorable ambidextrous pitching performance at KeySpan Park nearly five weeks ago.
But apparently, the switch-hitting catcher picked up enough to solve Staten Island’s double-barrel phenom when it mattered most Monday night, stroking a clutch two-run homer in the eighth inning at Richmond County Bank Ballpark to lift the Cyclones to a 4-1 victory over the first-place Baby Bombers.
“I didn’t think it was going to go out,” {read more...} Things To Do
Jungle Trek Is Perfect End to Day in the City
By Gina Osnovich & Quentin Klein
If pretty greens and blues and quick-paced acrobatic skits can keep your four-year-old up two hours past their eight o’clock bedtime, then Quentin and I definitely suggest you don’t miss Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy on {read more...} Practical Parenting
July 23, 2008
By Pam Wolf
I’m not one to hem and haw about anything with anyone. If something needs to be discussed or addressed, I do so immediately. Since my children were very young, I’ve never shied away from embarrassing topics. Consequently, even if they hate it, they are never shocked today when I initiate a conversation on drugs, sex, gratuitous violence in movies, and my antipathy for foods laden with empty calories. When I speak up, (Some call this personality trait confrontational. I disagree.), it’s never in an angry way, and once {read more...} The First Estate: July 23, 2008
Emmanuel Church Delegation Will Bring New Shoes to Kids in Africa
While on a South African mission trip last August, Clinton Hill resident Rotimi Akinnuoye became concerned that so many children were running barefoot on the cold, unpaved {read more...} Major Douglas LeVien Joins Nijmegen March
Four Day, 100 Mile March is an International Tradition
After parachuting into Normandy, France during the 64th Anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1944) to honor the sacrifices, courage and determination of those WW II veterans, Maj. Doug LeVien joined NATO’s Joint Force Command Brunssum Allied International Marching Team. He successfully completed the 92nd Annual Nijmegen (The Netherlands) International Four Days’ Marches.
Over 32,000 civilians and 6,000 military members from 30 countries as well as four members of the United States Delegation completed the four-day, 25-mile-a-day, 25 pounds of equipment march. {read more...} 68th Precinct Council Ready To Celebrate 25th Night Out Against Crime
Anniversary Event at Shore Road Park Features Police Equipment, Exhibits, Food and Raffle
By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle
BAY RIDGE — Born as a citizens’ response to the crime wave in the city and nation in the early 1980s, the National Night Out Against Crime will be celebrated in Bay Ridge on its 25th anniversary on August 5 in a much safer city than in 1983.
This year’s event starts at 5 p.m. and lasts until sunset at the Shore Road Park Playground on Shore Road and 79th Street. It is held by the {read more...} St. John’s Bids Farewell to Priest-in-Charge
Rev. Berry Parsons Set to Retire September 1
By Tom Kane
On September 1, 2008, the Episcopal Church of St. John’s will lose a valuable and trusted pastor in the Very Reverend Berry E. Parsons.
Father Berry, after 33 years as a priest, will be retiring from active priesthood and moving to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He leaves behind a congregation of over 70 families, and one of the most beautiful churches in all of Brooklyn, “the church of the generals,” as it is known locally. The church itself, which is located on {read more...} Brooklyn Today: Thursday, July 24, 2008
Good morning. Today is the 206th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Amelia Earhart, pioneer woman aviator. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo, the first woman to fly across the continent solo, {read more...} How Wily Wally O’Malley Got Into the Hall of Fame
By Andrew Paul Mele
Special to Brooklyn Eagle
BROOKLYN — This month in a sleepy hamlet in upstate New York, the cycle will be completed. Spawned in a lie, baseball’s hallowed Hall of Fame will link the circle with another sham. Amid an aura of greed and mendacity, Walter Francis O’Malley will be inducted into the shrine at Cooperstown.
When in 1939 the founders chose to ignore the already known myth of Abner Doubleday, the town of Cooperstown, and the invention of baseball in 1839, and unveil the hall and museum, they {read more...} BROOKLYN AERIE
A Weekly Column of Trivia and Observations:
July 24, 2008
By David Ansel Weiss
(cumb3@aol.com)
I wonder how many Mets fans know that the new stadium being built in Queens is based architecturally on Ebbets Field. The home of the Dodgers may have been a little rundown toward the end and {read more...} Historically Speaking:
Rights of the Brooklyn Historical Society
By John B. Manbeck
A Brooklyn Historian
Special to The Brooklyn Eagle
Several weeks ago a story in the City section of The New York Times by Jake Mooney cited a situation with orphan rights to a photograph seemingly in public domain. Blogs {read more...} On This Day in History: July 24
Equality in the Forces
WASHINGTON — During World War II, U.S. troops fought to defend freedom and human rights. But to many African-Americans in the armed forces, those were noble ideals rather than reality. American society — and the military — were still racially segregated. Almost one million African-Americans fought during World War II, but they served in all-black units, separated from white troops. And very few blacks served as officers.
When the war ended, civil-rights leaders demanded that blacks receive fair treatment throughout American life, including the military. Congress was reluctant to address the {read more...}
A ‘Tireless Campaigner for Women’s Rights’
NEW YORK CITY — “There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing,” Bella Abzug wrote in her autobiography “Bella.” “Whether I’m any of these things or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am … I am a very serious woman.” Abzug was a tireless campaigner for women’s rights and world peace. With her broad-brimmed hats and pull-no-punches style, she was one of America’s most colorful public figures. Azbug said she started wearing colorful hats when she became a lawyer {read more...}
Lost City of the Incas Found
MACHU PICCHU, PERU — On July 24, 1911, a dauntless American archaeologist named Hiram Bingham made an incomparable discovery on the summit of a precipice over a foaming river. In a search for the last Inca capital, he found the Lost City of the Incas, now called Machu Picchu (“old mountain”), but once known as Vilcapampa, a center of sun worship. He saw a breathtaking array of temples, palaces, plazas, and numerous stairways — a city of white granite structures of unsurpassed beauty, made with matchless skill. In the distance were hundreds of stone-faced terraces where crops had been grown to feed the inhabitants of this magnificent stone sanctuary. These included Incan Emperors and nobles, Priests of the Sun, and Chosen Women, or Virgins of the Sun, a corps of {read more...}
Nation’s First Reformatory Opens
ELMIRA, NY — When the nation’s first reformatory opened on July 24, 1876, it rejected 19th-century penology’s holy trinity: silence, obedience and labor. Elmira’s goal would be reform of the convict, and its methods would be psychological rather than physical. Instead of coercing with the lash, Elmira would encourage with rewards. Mass regimentation would yield to classification and individualized treatment. Instead of fixed sentences to fit the crime, the indeterminate sentence would be adjustable to fit the criminal. Rather than outright release after the offender “paid his debt to society,” {read more...}
FREE STUFF TO DO!
Rent is high, so keep your social life cheap.
Alice Smith will be performing at the BAM Rhythm and Blues Festival at Metrotech on Thursday, July 24 at noon. So if you can sneak out of your office, swing by the Metrotech Commons at the corner of Flatbush and Myrtle avenues, and enjoy the incredible of range of this talented singer/songwriter. www.bam.org
The Seaside Summer Concert Series welcomes Smokey Robinson on July 24 at 7:30 p.m. The stage is at Asser Levy/Seaside {read more...} Yesterday in Brooklyn
Bay Ridge ‘Green Church’ Is Now Like a Ghost Site
Many Still Seek To Prevent Historic Structure’s Demolition
By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BAY RIDGE — The Bay Ridge United Methodist Church, known as the “green church,” still stands at the corner of Ovington and Fourth avenues. It’s been empty and in disuse for the past few months, but preservationists are working to save it and convert it into a possible community cultural center.
“We remain hopeful, positive and optimistic as we work on saving the church, with continuing discussions with potential developers on a daily basis,” said Kathleen Walker of the {read more...} LICH President Out as Hospital Prepares To ‘Restructure’
By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
COBBLE HILL — In a move that will surprise some, depress others and confirm strong suspicions, Rita Battles has left Long Island College Hospital after serving as its president and CEO for three years.
She departs with relations between LICH and its owner Continuum Health Partners in disarray, and with one official protest having been lodged with the state Attorney General’s Office. That petition to Albany, signed by Congresspersons Nydia Velazquez, Ed Towns and Yvette Clarke, alleged that the 150-year-old institution is in a state of {read more...} Starbucks Dooms Outlet At Third Ave. in Bay Ridge
Some Call Closing a ‘Victory’ For Independent Small Stores
By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BAY RIDGE — Soon there will be one less Starbucks in Brooklyn, and it will be in Bay Ridge.
In a downsizing move caused by a shaky economy and a big drop in its stock value and profits, Starbucks executives are closing more than 600 shops nationwide by mid-2009, including 10 in the city. For Bay Ridge, its four Starbucks will soon be three.
Bay Ridge’s newest Starbucks opened in late December 2007 at 8414 Third Ave. at the {read more...} Saint Ann’s School Coming To Grips with New Neighbor
Probation Office and School To Have Separate Entrances
By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — With the understanding that the neighborhood has long been loaded with courthouses and other facilities dealing with convicted felons, Saint Ann’s School says it is trying to reach a constructive understanding with the U.S. Probation Office, soon to be a very close neighbor.
Saint Ann’s and its parents were initially shocked when they learned that a new probation facility was to open at 147 Pierrepont St. (One Pierrepont Plaza), where middle and high school classrooms and a {read more...} Boerum Place Celebrates Streetscape Improvements
By Sam Kestenbaum
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN -- Congressman Edolphus Towns, standing on Boerum Place yesterday, said, "I imagine a day when Brooklynites will look side to side and say to themselves, `Oh my! Isn't Brooklyn beautiful?’”
The congressman's vision is soon to be a reality. Behind Towns stretched a quarter-mile-long, revamped median of newly planted cherry trees, rose plants and juniper bushes between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue. The median is part of an ongoing revitalization effort in Downtown Brooklyn, toward which the Bloomberg Administration has contributed {read more...} Howe’s Brooklyn
Bouké Wines from North Fork Grapes Debuted in Brooklyn By Heights Resident
By Sam Howe & Friends
ONCE A WALL STREET securities analyst, Lisa Donneson has traded in that rigorous and stringent career for a no less intense but much more creative and autonomous role as entrepreneurial wine maker. Bouké (as in “bouquet”) wines just released its first three lines, as fresh and crisp as their name and label — one each of white, red, and rosé — made from Long Island’s North Fork grapes, selected by Bouké’s resident consultant, Gilles Martin.
Donneson, whose background is rooted in music (she played violin, banjo and guitar), at one time entertained so extensively that she enlisted the help of a culinary school to help her produce the events. A connection from the school mentioned to Donneson that master sommelier Andrea Robinson was giving a class {read more...} What? Another Fare Hike?
The MTA says it is considering raising fares for a second year in a row and, not surprisingly, riders are not pleased, NY1 News reported yesterday. Transit officials are expected to propose a fare increase to take effect next July {read more...}
On Tuesdays, campers at Plymouth Church Day Camp in Brooklyn Heights wear their red camp T-shirts for special activities — such as yesterday’s visit from Little Maestros, a popular toddler music program featuring four musicians singing and playing guitars, keyboard and drums. The children sang, clapped, stomped and supplied a variety of sound effects to audience participation favorites in the Blue Room.
Eagle photo by Don Evans
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The Visible — and the Unseen — Are Shaping Brooklyn Cultural District
By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Within the last month, there have been three positive and significant developments to move forward the Brooklyn Cultural District, also known as the BAM Cultural District because of its location.
One, announced last month, is for a dramatic and highly visible structure that will change the look of Flatbush Avenue. Two other developments, one announced this week, will alter interiors not seen from the street, but importantly contributing to the overall project.
The more recent announcement is about the inside of a neoclassic Brooklyn theatrical edifice called the {read more...} Brooklyn-Based Nonprofit Helps Those With Developmental Disabilities
Little Flower Celebrates 30th Year
EAST FLATBUSH — Little Flower Children Family Services of New York recently celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the opening of its Intermediate Care Facility (ICF), which provides care for adults who have complex clinical needs.
The operation arose from one of the most disturbing periods in New York State history, the scandal surrounding mistreatment of {read more...} Gov. Paterson Backs Plan For Low-Interest Student Loans
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. David Paterson is supporting a plan to create low-interest student loans for public and private universities in New York.
The state Commission on Higher Education proposed the subsidized loan program, which would be financed through tax-exempt bonds, in a 105-page report released Monday.
The governor also supports a recommendation to deregulate some areas of the State University of New York system, Paterson spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein said. The plan would give the SUNY board of trustees authority to lease university property without prior legislative approval — as long {read more...}
COBBLE HILL — Aaron “Spike” Scharf, 44, who’s lived in Cobble Hill for over 20 years, traces his desire to be a paramedic from the 1970s television show, “Emergency.”
Watching the show as a child, he was thrilled by the exploits of the ambulance crew. It was an unusual career choice for someone whose parents are both artists.
The specialty of EMS was then very new. While there were some volunteer rescue squads, hearses were often the first vehicles at an accident. The first Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) program in {read more...}
Slope Couple: Gas Drilling May Impact NYC Watershed Upstate
B’klyn Assemblyman Brennan Praised
This is regarding the issue of gas drilling in the Upper Delaware Watershed Region, which includes the Catskill/Delaware Watersheds supplying NYC via the Delaware and Catskill Aqueducts.
We live in Brooklyn and have a weekend house on the {read more...} 8 in a Row All Spruced Up; Storefronts Ready For Tenants
Design for ‘Secret Garden’ Just Completed
By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BOERUM HILL — A group of eight mixed-use buildings on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill have a new look. They’ve been painted in bright primary colors and their storefronts spruced up, ready for new tenants.
“I wanted to make this block [between 3rd and 4th avenues] a jazzy retail street,” said Barbara Koz Paley, principal with Art Assets, the owner.
Paley, who acquired the three- and four-family, three-story contiguous properties in 2005, and admits to being a collector of tapestries, said she painted {read more...} Verizon Wireless Adds 1.5 Subscribers in Second Quarter
In this file photo, a pedestrian walks past a Verizon wireless store in Union Square in Manhattan. Cell phone service provider Verizon Wireless said yesterday that it added 1.5 million net new subscribers during the second quarter, bringing its total to 68.7 million.
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Some Robbery Victims So Impressed by Operation That They Joined Them
By Tom Hays
Associated Press
CADMAN PLAZA EAST — They bound their victims with duct tape, beat them and held guns to their heads. When that didn’t work, the bandits applied pliers to their genitals and pressed hot irons to the soles of their feet. Sometimes they held victims’ heads under water in a bathtub.
Prosecutors say the torture was inflicted by a brazen New York gang that impersonated police officers and preyed on rival drug dealers along the East Coast, stealing their {read more...} Bay Ridge Crack-House Suspects Appear in Court
All Defendants, Including Former Fugitive, Make First of Many Pretrial Appearances
By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
JAY STREET — The Terrone brothers and their three alleged co-conspirators appeared in court yesterday for their first pretrial hearing before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Patricia Di Mango.
The three brothers from Bay Ridge — Joseph, 54, Michael, 47, and Ross Terrone, 45 – are charged with numerous counts of conspiracy and criminal possession and sale of a controlled substance. Gilbert Blake, 27, is charged with similar crimes, and could face additional charges for having remained a fugitive for over a week.
As first reported {read more...} Brooklyn ‘Odd Fellow’ Sentenced to Prison for Embezzlement
IRS Investigation Dethrones Grand Secretary Of Olde Fraternal Organization
By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
CADMAN PLAZA EAST — Though still altruistic with the money he embezzled and stole, the former grand secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was recently {read more...} Judge To Order Release of Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcripts
PEARL STREET (AP) — A Manhattan federal judge has indicated that he’ll release nearly all the grand jury testimony in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case.
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein told lawyers he’d rule later yesterday on a request by historical groups to make public the secret testimony in the Cold War spy case that resulted in the couple’s execution.
The government says it won’t oppose releasing testimony of dead witnesses or those who gave consent. But a prosecutor argued Tuesday that preserving grand jury secrecy outweighed the historical {read more...}
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s foreign minister says it won’t extradite a Serb basketball player who is wanted in New York on assault charges, after beating a Brooklyn man into a coma.
Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic says Miladin Kovacevic won’t {read more...}
NEW YORK (AP) — A disbarred Manhattan lawyer who pleaded guilty to statutory rape has sued the American Express Co. for giving police credit-card information he says resulted in his capture.
James Colliton was arrested in February 2006 near Toronto, where prosecutors say he fled after being indicted on charges of having sex with underage girls. The disgraced 44-year-old Colliton said Monday from his Poughkeepsie home that AmEx violated its agreement to withhold customer information from third parties.
AmEx spokeswoman Joanna Lambert says the company’s officials haven’t seen the lawsuit and can’t {read more...}
Wed. July 23, What It’s Like to Practice Law in NYC as a Woman, 6 p.m.
Women lawyers with experience in government, law firms, alternative practices and in-house law departments discuss issues affecting new lawyers. Program designed for law {read more...}
Grammy Award-winning singer John Legend delivered more than just great music at the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz at Wingate Field on July 21—he came through for children and those in poverty {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 205th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale. Drysdale was a pitcher for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1956 to 1969, compiling a {read more...} On This Day in History: July 23
Birth Anniversary of the ‘Captain’
EKRON, KY — A quarter-century after he last led his teammates out of the Ebbets Field dugout to start a game, Pee Wee Reese reflected on how he still retained the admiration of the old Brooklyn Dodgers. He observed: “Most of the players that are still alive to this day call me Captain.” And what a captain he was!
Harold Henry Reese was born on July 23, 1918 in Ekron, Kentucky, some 45 miles south of Louisville, the son of a railroad detective. Since the age of 12, he carried the {read more...}
Steve Pulls the First ‘Brodie’
BROOKLYN BRIDGE — The expression “to pull a Brodie” or “to do a Brodie” — meaning to attempt a dangerous stunt — was born when a 23-year-old New York saloon keeper, Steve Brodie, jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge 135 feet into the East River below to win a $100 wager. Many belied that Brodie did not actually leap but pushed a dummy off the bridge instead. The New York Times supported Brodie’s claim, however, reporting that a friend in a rowboat fished him out of the water, And the police {read more...}
Big ‘D’ for More Than ‘Dallas’
Don Drysdale was born on July 23, 1936. He fired a 95-mile-an-hour fastball and a wide sweeping curve, both with a sidearm motion. He was on the Brooklyn Dodgers team for two seasons before moving with them to Los Angeles. He was noted not only for his temper tantrums but for being one of baseball’s greatest pitchers. He died in 1993.
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A Brooklynite with Many Credits
BROOKLYN — Karl Swenson was born in Brooklyn on July 23, 1908. His busiest years were in radio and it seems that detective, drama or soap opera listeners could hardly have time to hear all his shows.
The first radio newsreel {read more...}
Something for the Boys
BROOKLYN — [During WW II the Brooklyn Eagle regularly carried a column “On the Home Front.” The following item is reprinted from the July 23, 1943 issue).
“Bay Ridge citizens crowded around the baseball diamond on Shore Road and 79th St. {read more...}
Debut of the Coney Island Hot Dog
BROOKLYN — It may not have been called by that name at the time but Charles Feltman, a German immigrant who had a small stand at the corner of East New York and Howard avenues in Brooklyn introduced the hot dog on July 23, 1889 by putting a boiled sausage in an oblong roll. He moved his stand to Coney Island later and his sandwich became known as the “Coney Island Hot.” Some slang historians claim the term “hot dog” began from urban folklore that the sausages were made with {read more...} |
