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

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

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 — 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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

© Brooklyn Daily {read more...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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...}

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

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...}

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...}

“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...}

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

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