By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE — If President Bill Clinton can survive a scandal that led to an unsuccessful impeachment trial, and Gov. David Paterson can admit his extramarital affairs despite {read more...}

By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — On Tuesday, May 6, a center “unlike anything else in the New York area – a welcoming, beautifully designed space for adults with physical disabilities” — opened with fanfare in Downtown Brooklyn.

Other comments overheard at the opening: “It changed my life.” “Before ICS I just stayed in the house.” “I feel more independent, more productive.”

The 16,000-square-foot Independence Care System (ICS) Brooklyn Center is on the 5th floor at {read more...}

By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

COBBLE HILL — Usually found in cold, clear waters of high purity, the brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, is seldom found near urban areas — and almost never in Brooklyn.

Yet if you looked inside a classroom on the fourth floor of Cobble Hill’s P.S. 29 this past Wednesday (it was the room with hundreds of colorful trout drawings), you would find an oversized aquarium filled with roughly 60 wiggling, swimming fingerlings: {read more...}

CROWN HEIGHTS — The Brooklyn Children’s Museum opened the doors to its new facility on Monday, May 12 — months before its official September 2008 opening — in a “sneak-preview” gala celebration honoring Frank Bisignano, chief administrative officer of JPMorgan Chase; Dr. Edison O. Jackson, president of Medgar Evers College, City University of New York; and high school seniors who received the Charles E. Inniss Community Builder Youth Awards.

Held annually, the gala celebrates {read more...}

Four years ago, on March 12, 2004, Clifford Damon stabbed his wife, Donna Gomes, numerous times in {read more...}

Louis Robinson was one of 11 people killed {read more...}

By Harold Egeln Brooklyn Eagle

SUNSET PARK — As the former City of Brooklyn gets ready for the Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th anniversary borough-wide party, a premiere art venue in Sunset Park will showcase the “Bridge as Icon” starting on May 22 for two months.

“In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Tabla Rasa Gallery presents the Bridge as Icon, an exhibit offering substantive artwork inspired by the world’s best known bridge,” said Audrey Frank Anastasi, in an {read more...}

By Verena Dobnik
Associated Press

BROOKLYN — The Rev. Jeffry Dillon switched from the religious to the secular on a recent Sunday morning to ask his parishioners a pointed question: “Do subprime mortgages scare you?” Then he announced that his Roman Catholic parish, not far from JFK International Airport in Queens, was offering a workshop after Mass to help people in danger of losing their homes.

Embracing the religious tradition of helping the poor, pastors around the nation are doubling as financial shepherds {read more...}

The medical brigade performed health evaluations, hearing and speech screenings, and major and minor surgeries for children and adults. In addition, they provided 13 people with hearing devices. “The medical mission is always geared first for children, but each year we see many {read more...}

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — St. Francis College hosted its annual Yom Hashoah remembrance event on May 1 with a lecture by noted professor Kitty Millet, who spoke about “The Obligation of Hope.” Professor Millet focused on the works of Primo Levi, Jorge Semprun and Michael Chabon and their relation to the events during and after the Holocaust.

Semprun was a non-Jewish member of the French resistance who was captured and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Dr. Millet pointed to a character in Semprun’s work who {read more...}

LONDON LOTTERY FRAUD: A 30-year old Fifth Avenue man couldn’t resist entering a tempting online lottery last year. When he was notified on April 29 that he had won 5.5 million British pounds, the {read more...}

BAY RIDGE — Senator Diane J. Savino (D-Bay Ridge/Staten Island) commended the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Long Island Railroad for its agreement, announced yesterday at a Community Board 10 subcommittee meeting, to {read more...}

CENTRE STREET — A jury has rejected the claim of a former Rikers Island prisoner who said he got bladder cancer by inhaling secondhand cigarette smoke while in jail there. Perhaps the jury found that the plaintiff’s 30-year history of being a smoker had something to do with his cancer.

The jury reached the verdict late Friday in the $15 million lawsuit against the city; the New York City Law Department reported the verdict Tuesday.

“The matter involved Raymond Marquez, commonly known to authorities as ‘Spanish Raymond’ and {read more...}

Three supervisors and an inspector in {read more...}

The book, “Moneyball,” caused somewhat of a stir when it was released, as some old school baseball executives viewed the tome as a self-serving account of an egotist’s opinion that he was smarter than anyone else. {read more...}

Last weekend, the Cincinnati Reds made what was their only scheduled 2008 trip into New York to face the Mets. Single games were scheduled for Friday night and Saturday afternoon as well as a Mother’s Day matinee on Sunday. These kinds of quirks in the schedule pop up quite a few times each year now that Major League Baseball teams play an unbalanced slate of games that allows for more contests between interdivisional rivals. Interleague play has further reduced the opportunities for multiple trips into {read more...}

Saturday, May 10, brought us the Xaverian High School 7th Annual Three-on-Three Basketball Tournament. This is the event that benefits the Richard Caggiano ’94, Jude Safi ’94 and Robert Tipaldi ’94 Scholarship Funds at Xaverian. These three young men grew up together, played ball together and were all traders at Cantor, Fitzgerald. They also died together on September 11, 2001. The event is organized by Brooklyn Eagle columnist, Ed Mayrose, class of ’79, but he is ably assisted by many Xaverian alumni, faculty and just plain old fans {read more...}

The New York Sports Club, 86th Street’s newest gym, opened its doors on April 1, but its official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday, May 13.

The ceremonial cutting was done by City Council Member Vincent Gentile, who then took a tour of the new 17,000-square-foot facility, which is located between Fourth and Fifth avenues.

The club has state-of-the-art equipment for all fitness requirements and top-of-the-line studios for cycling and group exercises. Members can choose from a wide variety of instructional options, including {read more...}

The works of art, vary from photography, drawing, painting, and collage, and were created in various art classes under the guidance of Ms. Liz, Ms. Kamal, and Mr. Kahlil, art instructors at the school. This exhibit was organized in conjunction with the art curriculum, and is an integral part of the school’s efforts to promote the exploration of self-expression in young students.

“The cultivation of creativity {read more...}

I would just like to commend Joel Feingold regarding his very interesting and informative article about the Jewish Yemenite congregation in Borough Park, which appeared in last week’s Brooklyn Eagle and Brooklyn Heights Press.

There are many surprises in the article. Who would think that Yemenite Jews read the Torah in Aramaic translation? Also somewhat surprising is the fact that Jews in Muslim countries were treated generally well during the Middle Ages. Interestingly, a Yemenite Moslem at a convenience store in Brooklyn Heights once told me that Yemenite {read more...}

In reference to last week’s interview with Murray Adams, we appreciate his long and devoted service as a board member and counsel to Long Island College Hospital.

The affiliation with Continuum unfortunately has morphed into a virtual takeover. There is no longer a local Brooklyn based board; all important decision are made in Continuum’s Manhattan based corporate headquarters with little if any input from either the Brooklyn community or LICH’s medical staff. Continuum has sold off much of our real estate with no explanation or accounting.

We feel that Continuum’s {read more...}

One of the snappiest ditties to emerge from World War I after American troops began to arrive in France had a line like this: “How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm once they’ve seen Paree?” It is highly unlikely that Roger Greenstone, Muss Development’s retail maven, has come up with a counter question, but he might have: “How you gonna keep ’em out of downtown once they know the facts?”

He may not be humming this bit, but he is doing everything he can to let quality retailers {read more...}

After attending St. Charles Borromeo School and St. Augustine High School, he studied at St. Francis College, from which he graduated in 1968 and where he later taught business courses.

An Eagle Scout, he remained active in scouting into adulthood. He served in the U.S. Navy and was a commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. His sister, Maureen Sapega, recalled scouting and the Navy as having been his two great enthusiasms. She {read more...}

Funds were raised for the association’s neighborhood programs, including opposition to current designs for nearby Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 in particular. For that purpose an information table was staffed by members of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund.

Attention also was directed to the deterioration at 25 Willow Street, standing amid the street’s {read more...}

“All health care, like politics, is local”, said Rita Battles, president of Long Island College Hospital, paraphrasing a fellow native of Massachusetts, former House Speaker Tip O’Neill.

The occasion for this pithy one-liner was a breakfast on Tuesday at LICH to celebrate the 150th anniversary of this Cobble Hill hospital. Anyone getting near the institution will see the area festooned with blue and white banners that note the 150 years with the words:”Looking back, moving forward.” The long history is uncontestable, and Battles cited several of LICH’s “firsts” in medical {read more...}

The opponents of residential housing as part of the plan for Brooklyn Bridge Park are a tenacious group. On April 22 the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund that had challenged the use of housing to fund the park’s maintenance. But BBPDF has pledged to fight on. On its website, www.parkdefense.org, Defense Fund president Judi Francis says the group will bring the case before a higher court.

The no-more-housing notion (360 Furman Street, a.k.a., One Brooklyn {read more...}

FORT HAMILTON, N.Y. -- Most installations have to wait a year for their return, but it’s been barely eight months and Fort Hamilton is singing the Soldier Show’s praises sooner then later.

The 2008 Soldier Show performed here Friday and Saturday at the post theater with the usual variety of songs, medleys and foot-stomping antics as every skit was met with full capacity bliss and cheers. This year’s 25th anniversary theme “For the Soldier, by the Soldier,” ignited the stage with almost every genre of music including gospel {read more...}

In the wake of a number of natural disasters in the U.S. and abroad, I would like to share with my readers important information about preparing for these situations.

One of the primary goals of our criminal justice system is to maintain social order. When a natural disaster or an act of terrorism occurs, panic {read more...}

Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer (D-Staten Island/ Brooklyn) announced that the Assembly passed a package of bills designed to regulate rent laws and promote fairness in renting procedures – in areas where rents are regulated – among tenants and landlords.

“Many New York City residents don’t own their apartments – they rent them – and it’s critical that we do what needs to be done to ensure that rights of tenants are adequately protected,” Hyer-Spencer said. “These common-sense measures put protections in place that reverse {read more...}

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