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 St. Francis College will welcome alumna and author Lisa Racioppo, ’92, to talk to current students about her career in advertising, her switch to nursing and her memoir that tells the tale, “From Brooklyn and Back Again” (PanAm), on Wednesday, March 16 at 3:30 p.m. … Full Article

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, a former Brooklyn Heights resident, was the featured speaker at the Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA) Annual Meeting Wednesday night at St. Francis College. … Full Article

As countless recent headlines have proclaimed Brooklyn’s real estate prices to be at an all-time high, it came as a bit of a shock that the value of the Watchtower’s Brooklyn Heights headquarters may have gone down by $80 million since last year. … Full Article

This past Sunday night at St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO, Mark Rylance’s and Louis Jenkins’s farcical, lyrical, melancholic, brilliant play “Nice Fish” had its opening night performance. … Full Article

“There is a corner turned, a direction taken. There is a door opened in everyone’s history that they can identify as the moment in their life, for better or worse, took a different course. Eve bit an apple, Dante met Beatrice. Jack met Neal. … Full Article

Brooklyn author Kaitlyn Greenidge’s “We Love You, Charlie Freeman” (March 8, Algonquin Books) is a gripping debut novel about a black family who moves to a nearly all-white town in western Massachusetts to take part in an experiment to teach sign language to a chimpanzee, Charlie, who will  … Full Article

For the past decade, Brooklyn — Downtown Brooklyn in particular — has been a hot commodity. More than $10 billion in private investments has flowed steadily into the borough and now there is a written blueprint. … Full Article

Will Green-Wood Cemetery be landmarked? The answer is no, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) decided on Tuesday at a special public meeting at its Lower Manhattan headquarters. … Full Article

“I’m Brooklyn born and raised,” Councilmember Laurie Cumbo proudly told the Brooklyn Eagle in a recent interview in her district office at One Hanson Place. … Full Article

The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is overseeing the renovation of a long-neglected city-owned park -- dubbed “BAM Park” -- at the intersection of Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue. … Full Article