Spook-tacular Community Council Art Contest Brings Fun, Awards
By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BAY RIDGE — Window, window on the wall, who is the most artistic of them all? That is the question a Bay Ridge group has asked every year since 1953 as students fill this area’s commercial strips from Third to 13th avenues and paint their Halloween monster-pieces on the windows of many businesses.
For the 57th year, neighborhood private and public schools participate in the Annual Halloween Window Art
BAY RIDGE – Unlike previous debates between Republican Bob Capano and Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile, which have been characterized by observers as debates between “nice guys,” the latest forum caught fire
BROOKLYN — In 2007, as an intern for Friends of Thirteen, I was the first line of defense in screening the 1,500+ user-generated war stories for our producer
BATH BEACH – Voters are angry about the city term limits extension from two to three terms supported by Republican Councilman James Oddo, according to Democratic Party opponent James Pocchia, who is running to unseat the incumbent whose district covers central Staten Island and a
BAY RIDGE — Four hundred years ago this month, Henry Hudson sailed through the Narrows as the native inhabitants watched from the bay’s ridge and their canoes. On Tuesday Councilman Vincent Gentile talked about his idea for public pier-use by Brooklyn seafarers with his announcement of the Bay Ridge Eco Dock.
“We’ll have a floating barge for kayaks, boaters and day trippers, making Bay Ridge a water-accessible destination for New Yorkers,” said Gentile,
Navy Yard, Brooklyn Brewery
Funded for Industrial Upgrades
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD — Gov. David A. Paterson Thursday announced the award of $7.8 million to five projects — two of them in Brooklyn — as part of the first round of awards through
BENSONHURST — Assemblyman William Colton (D-47th AD) a former teacher, will rally parents and community leaders to oppose midterm budget cuts that he suspects Gov. Paterson is planning.
The assemblyman invited parents, educators and community leaders
BROOKLYN — This past weekend, more than 100 city schools — about half of them in Brooklyn — got their makeovers.
More than 8,000 caring New Yorkers revitalized 117 New York City public schools across the five boroughs during the 18th Annual New York Cares Day on Saturday. Volunteers began work at 9:30 a.m., completing hundreds of projects by 3:30 p.m.
The volunteers added murals to classrooms and cafeterias, painted hundreds of classrooms, reorganized
In Manhattan, big spenders craving a scare can fork out $30 and wait in line for one of several big budget haunted houses. In Staten Island, an elaborate haunted cornfield and slaughterhouse costs $25.
Brooklyn, on the other hand, features “The Gravesend Inn,” a labor of love made by students and faculty of the CUNY entertainment technology program, and costs only $6 a pop.
The almost entirely animatronic fright-fest built inside of a CUNY building winds
‘In Pursuit of Freedom’ Is Joint Project
Of Historical Society, Irondale, Weeksville
BROOKLYN — The Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), the Weeksville Heritage Center and Irondale Ensemble Project have been chosen to receive two major federal grants to fund their joint project “In
WINDSOR TERRACE — Yummy homemade food and baked goods, a “fast, fresh, friendly” motto, and art by locals on the walls makes Crossroads Café an inviting and welcomed outpost in Windsor Terrace.
The popular venue, with takeout satellite sites in a nearby park and at Borough Hall, is celebrating its fourth anniversary with vim, vigor and vinaigrette.
“Crossroads implies choosing directions, where you’re headed,” said Suzanne Meehan, owner and founder of the community café
NEWTOWN CREEK — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended the community comment period on the proposal to add Newtown Creek, which separates Greenpoint from Queens’ Long
The last time the Honeybear family of swans was in the headlines, the future looked bleak. Honeybear, a cygnet, was suffering daily attacks from a vicious family of rival swans that were aggressively vying for the prime real estate in front of the Prospect Park boathouse, where park-goers are known to throw bread to the waterfowl.
Now, after a harrowing escape downstream into Prospect Park Lake, the Honeybear family
It was only Tuesday and Eli Velazquez, an animal control officer, had already had a hell of a week.
The day before he had to pick up two violently ill Rottweilers weighing over 100 lbs. each. The odor was bad enough when he put them in his van, but when he helped the veterinarian at the Brooklyn animal shelter lift one of the miserable animals onto his examining table,
