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Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, and Boys and Girls High School Principal Michael Wiltshire, right, listen as teacher Victoria Bozeman instructs a 12th grade English class at Brooklyn's oldest high school, Boys and Girls High School, on Tuesday. AP Photo by Bebeto Matthews

De Blasio: Brooklyn’s Boys and Girls High symbol of progress

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña headed to Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Boys and Girls High School on Tuesday to highlight the early progress made at 94 of the city’s least successful schools in the city’s new … Full Article

The Brooklyn Historical Society hosted a fundraising event with acclaimed producer and director Ken Burns, pictured with BHS President Deborah Schwartz, to raise money for children's programming. Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

Ken Burns helps Brooklyn Historical Society raise money for kids

More than 100 Brooklynites got a chance to spend an evening with Academy Award-nominated producer and director Ken Burns at the fundraiser for the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) on Tuesday night. … Full Article

Borough Hall station near the 4 and 5 trains where the incident occurred Tuesday night. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

NYPD probes fatal straphanger dispute in subway station

Police sought answers Wednesday from a retired corrections officer after his dispute with a pair of strangers ended with a fatal shooting that spread panic inside a subway station at the height of the evening rush hour. … Full Article

Author Bernice McFadden will speak in Brooklyn on March 31. Photo by Eric Payne

Brooklyn native to discuss latest novel in Fort Greene

Brooklyn-born Bernice L. McFadden, author of nine novels and a three-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, will present her latest work, “Loving Donovan,” with award-winning author Terry McMillan on March 31 at BRIC. … Full Article

Patrick Phillips, a Brooklyn-based poet, will speak about his new collection, “Elegy for a Broken Machine,” at Cobble Hill’s BookCourt on March 20. Photo by Marion Ettlinger

Brooklynite to share book of elegies in Cobble Hill

Brooklyn-based poet Patrick Phillips’ new collection “Elegy for a Broken Machine” consists of odes to the greatest loves and losses in our lives right alongside odes to the seemingly insignificant — cigarettes, a mattress, a mirror, our hair and more. … Full Article