Actor, Brooklyn native and former firefighter Steve Buscemi, right, endorsed Councilman Bill de Blasio, left, for public advocate at a press conference on the City Hall steps Tuesday. Buscemi joined de Blasio in 2003 to protest the city’s closure of the Engine 204 firehouse in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Also endorsing de Blasio at the conference was Steve Cassidy, head of the Uniformed Firefighters Association.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — As a young girl growing up in Brooklyn Heights, Megan Gelstein always took an interest in what her father, Len Gelstein, did for a living. He was a professional photographer and ad writer for many years.
“My father definitely introduced me to the power of an image,”
Brooklynite Megan Enright jokes that her “can-do spirit” led her to enter the annual Red Bull art competition, “Art of Can.” Red Bull cans reminded Enright of the shells of sea creatures, she says, hence “CrustaceCans,” made of 16 cans, foam core, aluminum wire, string, acrylic paint and nail polish. She is in the running for an all-expenses-paid trip to Art Basel, to be announced at the Washington, D.C., exhibition in October.
PROSPECT PARK — Christian Zimmerman, vice president for design & construction at Prospect Park, will be inducted into the Council of Fellows of the American society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) at the society’s Annual Meeting in September.
Zimmerman has worked at Prospect Park for 19 years, revitalizing and restoring the 585 acres that comprise
BROOKLYN -- Rusty Kanokogi is a fighter. A fiercely strong, deep-voiced woman who knows how to stick to her guns. Fueled by a pivotal, crushing moment 50 years ago in Utica, N.Y., she fought a grueling battle to take women’s judo from an unrecognized sport to an official Olympic game.
For her perseverance, the Coney Island native is internationally hailed as the “mother of women’s judo.” Friday she will
The Forward tells of an Israeli psychic named Rabbi Chaim Yosef Sharabi, who has been giving readings in the back of an optical store in Borough Park. The rabbi, who traces his ancestry to an 18th century Yemeni mystic, also {read more...}
Wrote Romance Novel To
Alleviate Stress After 9/11
BROOKLYN — What could be more romantic than rescue from a burning building by a strapping young fireman?
Terry Brody, firefighter and first-time novelist, has published a new book titled Rescuing Madison that captures this steamy premise. Within its pages, beautiful Midwestern pop star Madison Park falls for her rescuer from the flames, New York firefighter Billy — and although from different worlds, they “test the possibility of an impossible relationship.” The tagline reads:
GOWANUS — Talk about a tip — when most people order a drink, they leave a buck or two on the bar, but when Philip Lockerby and Zartosht Soltani go for drinks, their bartenders often score mini-portraits of themselves.
Artists Lockerby and Soltani have worked together on various animated projects during the past four years, but
It has been announced that David Ansel Weiss, a World War II Navy veteran who pens the weekly column, “From the Brooklyn Aerie,” for the Brooklyn Eagle, will be the keynote speaker at the 101st annual Memorial Tribute to the Prison Ship Martyrs by the Society of Old Brooklynites. The ceremony will be held Saturday, Aug. 22, at 10 a.m. at the base of the 149-foot tall Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene
Former Brooklyn Dodger great Carl Erskine says Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Tuesday, was bold at a time when the world was shy about embracing people who were different.
The pitcher was one of the many athletes Shriver enlisted to help
With a board of directors led by Peter Meyer, president of TD Bank’s New York City market and a resident of Brooklyn Heights, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (BCC) has expanded and continued many of
Talia Kahn-Kravis of Brooklyn works with the goats at Centro Ammehula, an organic farm, in Santa Eulalia del Monte, Spain. Backpackers pining for European adventure have discovered life on the farm, shoveling manure, feeding pigs and making butter as a recession-beating way to sate their wanderlust.
Self-described “parade addict” Marni Halasa has learned that she won second place as Best Mermaid in the 2009 Coney Island Mermaid Parade, dressed as one of her alter egos, Mesmeralda the Mesmerizing Mermaid. “Yes it was drizzling, but it didn’t stop us mermaids from having a great time and celebrating all the kitsch, fun and glory of Coney Island!” she says. In addition to making a stunning sea woman, Halasa is a skate coach and choreographer, and formerly a reporter and lawyer. She was just recently featured on the “Today Show” (with her “bellydancing on blades” routine) in a showcase of local talent who had {read more...}
Brooklyn Heights resident Jennifer Stewart is the national winner of the Statue of Liberty centennial look-alike contest. She is pictured here standing in front of the real thing (hard to tell which is which) on July 4. The first visitors were allowed into the Statue of Liberty’s crown Saturday in nearly eight years after it was closed to the public after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The base, pedestal and outdoor observation deck were reopened in 2004, but the crown {read more...}
Angela Calamia, Administrative Law Judge
“That post office was like our little out post. Lower Bay Ridge is being left with no services whatsoever. We need a good supermarket... Lower Bay Ridge is the stepchild of Upper Bay Ridge. [Ovington Post Office] really was convenient. Now if I want to order something that can’t be delivered I have to make a big trek up to 87th.”
Ivy Chua, right, Susie’s Hair Design, with sister Irene and customer Charles Otey
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