Perretta was born in Brooklyn in 1924, the second of four sons, to his parents, Josephine and Luigi Perretta, {read more...}

A photographer, resident in Bedford-Stuyvesant but associated especially with Harlem, died last week. He was not as well known as he should have been, for he was one of the very best. Roy DeCarava recorded people and life in Harlem with a sensitivity and a command of the medium that placed him among the masters.

DeCarava, 89 at his death, had achieved the title of distinguished professor of art at Hunter College, and can’t be said to have wasted away into obscurity. Even so, he did not get quite the recognition he was due. Inexplicably he was not included in the Metropolitan Museum’s giant exhibition, “Harlem on My Mind,� {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

Adelaide Kassenbrock, widow of the late Walter Kassenbrock, a co-founder of the Bay Ridge Community Council (BRCC) for whom P.S. 185 is named, died on Thursday. She was a {read more...}

By Raquel Maria Dillon
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Vic Mizzy, the Brooklyn-born songwriter who composed the catchy themes for the 1960s TV comedies “The Addams Family� and “Green Acres,� has died. He was 93.

In his youth, he was briefly the house pianist for the now-defunct radio station WLTH, whose motto was “The Voice of the Brooklyn Eagle in the Brooklyn Eagle Building.�

Mizzy died Saturday at his home in Bel Air, his manager {read more...}

Many years ago I met and had conversations with Pierre Gassmann, who ran the Paris photo lab Pictorial Service that handled the work of Capa, Cartier-Bresson and other Magnum photographers. I never met the proprietor of the other {read more...}

BAY RIDGE — Winner of numerous athletic honors — including induction into the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Hall of Fame — much-loved Poly coach Harlow A. Parker died on Monday, Sept. 28, surrounded by family and friends. He was 91 years old.

An assistant headmaster, dean, athletic director, coach, teacher and mentor, Coach Parker was affectionately nicknamed “Park� or “Hap� by generations of Poly Prep students.

He also garnered a remarkable combined career total {read more...}

Toomey was the first woman to cover the {read more...}

Born in England, a graduate of Cambridge University, he came to the United States after World War II and {read more...}

NEW YORK (AP) — Stanley H. Kaplan, the founder of the nation’s first test preparation company, who died Sunday at the age of 90, grew up in Flatbush and started the company from his parents’ home there in 1938.

Kaplan died from heart failure at his home in New {read more...}

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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – The St. Francis College community is mourning the death of Brother George Larkin, O.S.F. Bro. George graduated from St. Francis College in 1960, returning in 1971 to spend more than {read more...}

A former Bay Ridge resident, John, {read more...}