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World-acclaimed organist Daniel Roth. Photo credit: Joseph Vitacco

Daniel Roth set to play Kilgen Organ at Our Lady of Refuge Church

One of the world’s most renowned organists, Daniel Roth, will perform at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Ditmas Park, as part of a concert series for the parish’s recently restored Kilgen Pipe Organ. … Full Article
 
Republican Dan Donovan accepts the endorsement of Robert Engstrom (right), senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, during a recent event at a Staten Island pharmacy. Photo courtesy Donovan campaign

Construction workers, business leaders endorse Donovan

Republican Dan Donovan, the man seen by many political observers as the front-runner in the special election for the Southwest Brooklyn-Staten Island congressional seat, has picked up two more endorsements to boost his campaign. … Full Article
 
Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis says Governor Andrew Cuomo’s trade mission to Cuba won’t help impoverished people in that country. Photo courtesy Malliotakis’s office

Malliotakis says Cuomo’s trip to Cuba is a mistake

Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, whose mother Veralia left Cuba in 1959 to escape the Castro regime, is highly critical of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s trade mission to that country, charging that the idea of promoting trade will fall flat. … Full Article
 
A view from inside the classroom where a window collapsed at Dyker Heights Intermediate School Monday morning. Photo courtesy Councilmember Vincent Gentile’s office

Window collapse raises safety concerns at Dyker Heights school

The collapse of a large window in a classroom at Dyker Heights Intermediate School on Monday is raising alarms over school safety. … Full Article
 
Austin Ruiz is one of Telecom's few players left over from its championship team two years ago and is one of its only vocal leaders. Eagle photos by Rob Abruzzese

Telecom fails first test, still looking for heart and leadership

The Telecom Yellow Jackets are perennially one of the top baseball programs in Brooklyn, but there is a clear need for heart and leadership after they failed their first big test of the season when they lost to Tottenville 11-1 in Dyker Heights on Friday. … Full Article
 
West Point cadets march through the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Hamilton. Eagle photos by Paula Katinas

Fort Hamilton celebrates West Point Day

Two historic military institutions, the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Hamilton and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, joined together for a day and invited the public in to have a look behind the scenes. … Full Article
 
Dr. David Silver, director of Urologic Oncology, is in the Robotic Operating Room Suite. Photo courtesy Maimonides Medical Center

Maimonides embracing surgery-performing robots

Baby Boomers all remember “The Jetsons,” a jazzy cartoon series they watched as kids in the early-1960s about George Jetson, his wife Jane and their two children living in a futuristic society. The family’s maid, Rosie, was a sassy robot. … Full Article
 
U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch says FABCO will now train its employees to obey the Americans with Disabilities Act. AP Photo

U.S. settles discrimination lawsuit against Fabco Shoes

A discount shoe store chain has agreed to pay a customer a $10,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Attorney after an employee in its Bensonhurst store allegedly refused entry to the shopper because the woman was in a wheelchair, officials announced. … Full Article
 
Catherine Gigante-Brown says she’s hard at work at a sequel to her novel. Photo by Barbara Nitke

New novel captures a piece of Brooklyn’s past

Brooklyn during the Great Depression, when movie houses like the Loew’s 46th Street Theater sponsored “Dish Nights," families gathered around radios to hear Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Fireside Chats” and kids took the trolley to Coney Island, is the time frame in which writer Catherine Gigante- … Full Article
 
You’ll be paying more for your water usage, if a proposal from the New York City Water Board is adopted.

Golden calling on residents to protest water rate hike

Residents will have even more reason to take short showers, water the plants less frequently and turn off the faucet while brushing their teeth in the morning. The city is planning to raise the water rates starting in July. … Full Article
 

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