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Salaam Club members come together for a group photo. Photo courtesy of the Salaam Club of New York

Salaam Club prepares for its 71st Annual Holiday Gala

The Salaam Club of New York is preparing for its 71st Annual Holiday Gala, to be held on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the El Caribe Country Club, 5945 Strickland Ave.  … Full Article
 
State Sen. Marty Golden says he hopes women take advantage of the opportunity to get tested for free. Eagle photo by Paula Katinas

Golden sponsors free mammograms

Women should not let a lack of money stand in the way of a potentially lifesaving medical test, said state Sen. … Full Article
 
Reaching Out Community Services Inc. in Bensonhurst is getting $30,000 in city funding. Eagle photo by Paula Katinas

Brooklyn food pantries see boost in city funding

Reaching Out Community Services Inc., a nonprofit social services organization that operates out of a storefront on New Utrecht Avenue in Bensonhurst, will be able to assist more hungry families now that the City Council has announced a $30,000 allocation to the group. … Full Article
 
Borough President Eric Adams says the vanity license plates will be a “meaningful generator of funds” for research into a cure for pediatric cancer. Photo courtesy of Adams’s office

Adams, Gentile promote vanity plates to fund cancer research

A new state law signed this week by Gov. … Full Article
 
Chief Petty Officer Joel Cesar, pictured at a basketball game, says current assignment in the Pacific Fleet “keeps me on the tip of the spear.” Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy

Brooklyn man serving Navy in historic Pearl Harbor

As the nation pauses to remember the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place 75 years ago on Dec. 7, 1941, the anniversary has special meaning for a Brooklyn native who is serving in the U.S. Navy in the very location that drew the U.S. … Full Article
 
Student Alliance President Aleka Zovdun (left), pictured with fellow student Destiny Lozada, says the school’s academic departments compete with each other to see which one will donate the most food items. Photo by Lev Katreczko

Students collect 9,215 food items for City Harvest

The generosity of Edward R. Murrow High School students knows no bounds. The school’s students recently hit a new milestone for their annual food drive, collecting and then donating an astonishing 9,215 food items to City Harvest, an organization that helps to feed the needy. … Full Article
 
There's a “For Sale” sign outside Saint John's Episcopal Church, but a buyer has been found for the historic Bay Ridge property. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan

Shut-down St. John's Episcopal Church in Bay Ridge might be preserved

Brooklyn's historic “Church of the Generals” might be saved from demolition. That's the word from the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, which is selling vacant St. John's Church in the Fort Hamilton section of Bay Ridge. … Full Article
 
Jane Kelly, a longtime member of the Bay Ridge Community Council, is pictured with some of her friends from that organization, Barbara Vellucci, Arlene Keating, Kevin Peter Carroll and Robert Hedlund (left to right). Eagle photo by Paula Katinas

Bay Ridge’s doyenne turns 95

Jane Kelly is 95 years young! Blessed with the energy of people decades younger than her, Kelly continues to maintain a hectic schedule of meetings and activities surrounding the various civic organizations she is involved with in her beloved neighborhood of Bay Ridge. … Full Article
 
70th Precinct officers (left to right) Brown and Alava and Capt. Romero doing their part. Eagle photos by Arthur De Gaeta

Flatbush’s 70th Precinct sponsors neighborhood blood drive

One week after helping hosting a Thanksgiving luncheon for the needy, Flatbush’s 70th Precinct is sponsoring a blood drive in memory of one of its own fallen officers. … Full Article
 
An image of the late Fidel Castro stands on a chair in a government building in Havana on Sunday, Nov. 27. Cuba is observing nine days of mourning for the former president who ruled Cuba for half a century. AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa

Malliotakis: Death of Castro marks new beginning

The death of Fidel Castro marks a new beginning for the people of Cuba, according to Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, a lawmaker who has a personal connection to the Caribbean island nation. Malliotakis is the daughter of a Cuban refugee. Her mother, Vera, fled Cuba in the 1950s. … Full Article
 

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