By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Some residents of Concord Village, the seven-building, 1,025-unit co-op complex at Adams and Tillary streets in Downtown Brooklyn, think of it as an island in the middle of a sea of courthouses, college buildings and traffic.

Others view it as an integral part of the Downtown Brooklyn community and still others see it as a haven. Maybe it’s all three.

“I’ve always said Concord {read more...}

By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS -- They laughed, they cried and they wildly applauded the acting, the sets, costumes and the Bard himself at P.S. 8’s production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Remix” in Brooklyn Heights last Friday.

The school’s third, fourth and fifth graders seemed to have been born speaking Elizabethan English. The interpretation was so clear that the audience actually laughed at Shakespeare’s jokes {read more...}

Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

FORT GREENE — Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) reports it has awarded Hunt Construction Group the construction contract for the Barclays Arena at Atlantic Yards.

The Indianapolis-based construction company will be working with arena designers Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Architects, and will be using “a structural steel superstructure frame with structural precast seating bowl and a weathered steel rain screen facade,” according to a published statement.

As frequently reported {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE – As Republicans go on the march to unseat Democrats across the country, a young Democrat is seeking to depose Brooklyn’s sole Republican state senator, Marty Golden of Bay Ridge, an elected official since 1997.

The challenge comes from Gravesend resident Mike DiSanto, 29, in his first foray into politics, starting off the first real Democrat-Republican campaign in the southwest Brooklyn district since 2004. DiSanto declared his {read more...}

By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

RED HOOK -- Friends and artists gathered at 65 Union St. this past Saturday night for the weekend-only exhibit “Salting the Excellence.” The exhibit showcased the works of nine emerging artists at the WORK Gallery, a space dedicated to fostering emerging artists and their craft {read more...}

CLINTON HILL -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway came to the headquarters of the Pratt Area Community Council Monday to launch the Water Debt Assistance Program, a new initiative {read more...}

A health official says a total of {read more...}

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS -- For more than 35 years, Brother George Larkin, O.S.F. ’60 helped recruit and guide thousands of students through their time at St. Francis College.

To honor his memory and the influence he had on the St. Francis College Community, his life and legacy will be on full {read more...}

The honorees, nominated by their fellow employees and selected by a special committee, were presented engraved crystal hearts by Beth Israel Interim President Harris Nagler, MD, Rhona Hetstrony, VP for administration, and Marie {read more...}

KCCBA Past Presidents James Layton Koenig and Andrew Rendeiro congratulated Person of the Year Roger Bennet Adler at the KCCBA Annual Dinner and Dance held Saturday at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, Queens.

Kings County Criminal Bar Association (KCCBA) President John B. Stella and Acting Kings County Supreme Court Justices Sheryl L. Parker and John P. Walsh. Hon. Barry Kamins presented the husband and wife each with Person {read more...}

This exhibit, which will be held at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), will be open to the public for two weeks from Saturday, February 27 until Sunday, March 14. An opening night reception and gallery talk will {read more...}

Anyone with information on his {read more...}

BROOKLYN — Recently Continuum Health Partners, known to Downtown Brooklyn residents as the parent company of Long Island College Hospital, backed down from its offer to buy the troubled St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village.

The problem with this arrangement is that Continuum planned to shut down St. Vincent’s inpatient facilities, {read more...}

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS— Massey Knakal Realty Services honored two Brooklyn brokers at its annual award ceremony on Jan. 27. The event, held this year at the Brooklyn office in Brooklyn Heights and honored “some of the finest” in the firm.

The Brooklyn honorees are:

• Brian Hanson, first vice president of sales in {read more...}

Eagle photographer Mario Belluomo recently came upon a 1914 edition of the Eagle Almanac in a used bookstore. Its subtitle, “A Book of Information, General of the World, and Special of New York City and Long Island,” is apt.

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By Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN – Although Brooklyn has been profoundly affected by the tragic earthquake that struck Haiti, most of us can only help by sending financial donations.

But one young man from Brooklyn Heights found a way to do more.

Warren Cohn, a special assistant to Congressman Ed Towns who works in Towns’ Downtown Brooklyn office, came up with the idea to form a delegation bringing supplies to Haiti, along with a friend from Miami, {read more...}

By Caitlin McNamara
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

PARK SLOPE — Many talented writers call Brooklyn home, and Tina Chang knows, as well as anyone, that among the novelists, playwrights and screenwriters, poetry, too, is brimming here.

In her new appointment as Brooklyn’s fourth poet laureate, Chang’s primary {read more...}

FORT GREENE — The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership (the Partnership) is hosting an exhibition of plans for the Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza through Feb. 13 at a vacant storefront at 352 Myrtle Ave. between Carlton {read more...}

JAY STREET — The defense will continue to present its case Tuesday in the trial of a Brooklyn cop accused of sodomizing a rogue pot smoker with a police baton.

Officer Richard Kern is charged with sexual {read more...}

MONROE PLACE — Presiding Justice A. Gail Prudenti of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, has announced the appointment of Matthew G. Kiernan as Clerk of the Court. The appointment was made with the unanimous approval of the Associate Justices of the Court.

In his new role, Kiernan will hold the highest ranking non-judicial position in the Appellate Division. He replaces James Edward Pelzer, who is retiring after 10 years as Clerk of {read more...}

At the New York State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting at the Hilton New York in Manhattan, Sansone was given the prestigious award for her decades of extraordinary devotion to civil rights and social justice Sponsored by the Committee on {read more...}

REMSEN STREET — Three local bar associations came together last week to collaborate on a project that had nothing at all to do with the law. The event was about money — money for Haiti, that is.

The Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA), Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association (BWBA) and Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA) utilized their collective ability to attract members, lawyers and judges to the BBA headquarters last Thursday night for the purpose of raising funds.

Even before {read more...}

BOERUM HILL — Roger Thomas, a new Halstead Property agent in the Boerum Hill office, has completed training and earned the prestigious Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE) designation, having completed extensive training in foreclosure avoidance and short sales.

There are only 30 real estate professionals in {read more...}

WINDSOR TERRACE -- Brooklyn Cub Pack & Scout Troop 187, which meets at Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) School, will be hosting a series of community outreach events for the scouting program and Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.

The monthly events will be designed to provide families in the surrounding communities with a local place to have fun, get to know their neighbors, and enjoy entertainment at an affordable price.

At the same time, {read more...}

By Jess Goodwin
Brooklyn Eagle

Most people probably don’t picture any of the characters of Alice in Wonderland as frat boys chugging down PBRs and gorging themselves on Utz potato chips. Lewis Carroll surely didn’t.

But that’s what makes “alice...Alice...ALICE!”, the Irondale Ensemble Project’s latest undertaking, so unique: None of it caters to what people expect of Carroll’s classic tale. Directors and co-founders Jim Niesen (Irondale’s artistic director) and Barbara Mackenzie-Wood have updated the story to a {read more...}

Brooklyn native Jim Brochu returned triumphantly to his alma mater, St. Francis College, to speak to students last Thursday morning.

This is a man who made his motion picture debut in the movie The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight in 1971, opposite another newcomer, Robert DeNiro. He’s been on Broadway, Off-Broadway and done {read more...}

Curated by Spring Hofeldt and Michele Jaslow, “Glitch Generation” plays with our heightened expectations of media devices — phones, cameras and computers — {read more...}

According to BBG’s web site, exposure to daylight, even on {read more...}

Clark Gable combined with a warm chocolate fondant cake just might make for the perfect Valentine’s Day. This February 14, BAM Rose Cinemas will be showing one of the great screwball romantic comedies, It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. The first film to sweep all five major Oscars (Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress), It Happened One Night follows spoiled rich {read more...}

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning had better look out Sunday night, because New Orleans Saints left defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove has been waiting for his chance at redemption on the gridiron’s biggest stage.

Hargrove, a Brooklyn native who nearly threw his career away due to drug and alcohol abuse, will be doing his best to pressure, pester and pound the four-time NFL MVP when the Saints battle the Colts for the right to {read more...}

By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

HICKS STREET — On Wednesday, armed with red noisemakers and whistles, nurses and other Long Island College Hospital (LICH) staffers picketed to protest what they called parent company Continuum’s blatant disregard for nurses’ {read more...}

Long Island College Hospital (LICH) announces PET-CT imaging, the only hospital in the area offering this advanced technology. PET-CT uses the latest technology to detect and diagnose cancer, heart disease and neurological {read more...}

BROOKLYN — The Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI), based in Brooklyn, unveiled two new programs it plans to implement in 2010, including a Small Business Services program run by {read more...}

DUMBO — Kim Wendell Design, a digital design communications firm, has relocated its studio from Tribeca to DUMBO.

Two Trees Management Co. reports that the design firm has signed a lease for 1,150 square feet at 45 Main St.

“We are thrilled to welcome Kim Wendell Design to DUMBO,” said Caroline Pardo, director of leasing at Two Trees, who represented the landlord in this four-year lease. “This neighborhood continues to attract creative companies seeking new commercial spaces {read more...}

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — It’s been noted that the three new residential towers along Flatbush Avenue Extension are redefining the Downtown Brooklyn skyline.

But they’re also changing the look and feel of the street itself.

“It feels like you’re in a whole different city,” said Brooklyn Heights resident (and Eagle reporter)Mary Frost, after walking down the stretch of Flatbush Avenue Extension from south of Myrtle Avenue to north of Johnson Street, where the three new towers are. “And you {read more...}

I have lived in a three-story, low-income, six-family apartment building in Bushwick for four years on St. Nicholas Avenue in District 34. I saw you speak at the Onderdonk House this {read more...}

I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Although many of us {read more...}

BROOKLYN — A sign that things are getting better for the economy and for Brooklyn is the fact that real estate editor Linda Collins is achieving what we call in this business “scoops.”

She has been the first to report on developer Joe Sitt’s plans for his stellar Red Hook land holdings {read more...}

The next much-anticipated meeting of the Kings County Supreme Court Goldberg/Aronin Civil Forum will get underway 9 a.m., Feb. 24, in the 11th floor boardroom of 360 Adams St., according to Justice Donald Scott Kurtz.

These forums, instituted when Appellate Term Presiding Justice Mike Pesce was Kings administrative judge, have played a {read more...}

By Dennis Holt

Our first installment of this series, about what parts of Brooklyn were like in 1884 and who lived there, was about the block of Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights between Middagh and Cranberry streets.

This chapter reports on where Henry Street begins, the space between Fulton and Middagh. The configuration is the same now as in 1884: the east side was unbroken between Fulton and Middagh, where probably about 100 {read more...}

Ruth was one of the most phenomenally gifted and popular players in the history of baseball. He began his career in 1914 as a left-handed pitcher for the Baltimore team of the International League. Later, in the same year, he played for the Providence team of that same league and then became a member of the Boston Red Sox of the American League. He pitched for Boston until the 1919 season, when his unusual ability as a batter and {read more...}