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Pirate School!, a family-friendly pirate-based vaudeville show, is coming to the historic Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge in Red Hook on Sunday, Aug. 4.  … Full Article

City Council candidate Ede Fox, one of several Democrats looking to succeed Councilwoman Letitia James (D-Fort Greene-Clinton Hill-Prospect Heights), is hoping that endorsements from unions will move her to the head of the pack. … Full Article

Sacre bleu! Park Slope's Hotel Le Bleu is for sale. CPEX Real Estate has the exclusive listing for the seven-story, 48-room boutique hotel, which opened in 2007 at the beginning of a wave of lodging construction in Park Slope and Gowanus. … Full Article

The emergency room crisis in Brooklyn expanded as high temperatures knocked out Brooklyn Hospital Center’s ER Monday afternoon. … Full Article

Outraged by the acquittal of George Zimmerman, House members representing Brooklyn districts were among the lawmakers calling on the US Department of Justice to conduct “a thorough investigation” into whether the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to death viol … Full Article

Nkem Udeh, the owner of Advance Medical Supply Inc. … Full Article

Brooklyn-based journalist Michael Daly has recently published “Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. … Full Article

Each year, the Italian-American community of Williamsburg re-enacts a fourth-century pageant which commemorates the return of the Bishop of Nola, San Paolino (Paulinus), from captivity. … Full Article

As the SUNY Downstate Council met on Monday to discuss their financially troubled medical center’s sustainability plan, supporters of Long Is … Full Article

State Sen. Eric Adams, a retired New York police captain who is running for borough president, said the verdict in murder trial of George Zimmerman could be felt after in Brooklyn, even though the borough is thousands of miles away from Florida. … Full Article