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Today in Brooklyn
LICH President Out as Hospital Prepares To ‘Restructure’
By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
COBBLE HILL — In a move that will surprise some, depress others and confirm strong suspicions, Rita Battles has left Long Island College Hospital after serving as its president and CEO for three years.
She departs with relations between LICH and its owner Continuum Health Partners in disarray, and with one official protest having been lodged with the state Attorney General’s Office. That petition to Albany, signed by Congresspersons Nydia Velazquez, Ed Towns and Yvette Clarke, alleged that the 150-year-old institution is in a state of {read more...} Starbucks Dooms Outlet At Third Ave. in Bay Ridge
Some Call Closing a ‘Victory’ For Independent Small Stores
By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BAY RIDGE — Soon there will be one less Starbucks in Brooklyn, and it will be in Bay Ridge.
In a downsizing move caused by a shaky economy and a big drop in its stock value and profits, Starbucks executives are closing more than 600 shops nationwide by mid-2009, including 10 in the city. For Bay Ridge, its four Starbucks will soon be three.
Bay Ridge’s newest Starbucks opened in late December 2007 at 8414 Third Ave. at the {read more...} Saint Ann’s School Coming To Grips with New Neighbor
Probation Office and School To Have Separate Entrances
By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — With the understanding that the neighborhood has long been loaded with courthouses and other facilities dealing with convicted felons, Saint Ann’s School says it is trying to reach a constructive understanding with the U.S. Probation Office, soon to be a very close neighbor.
Saint Ann’s and its parents were initially shocked when they learned that a new probation facility was to open at 147 Pierrepont St. (One Pierrepont Plaza), where middle and high school classrooms and a {read more...} Boerum Place Celebrates Streetscape Improvements
By Sam Kestenbaum
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN -- Congressman Edolphus Towns, standing on Boerum Place yesterday, said, "I imagine a day when Brooklynites will look side to side and say to themselves, `Oh my! Isn't Brooklyn beautiful?’”
The congressman's vision is soon to be a reality. Behind Towns stretched a quarter-mile-long, revamped median of newly planted cherry trees, rose plants and juniper bushes between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue. The median is part of an ongoing revitalization effort in Downtown Brooklyn, toward which the Bloomberg Administration has contributed {read more...} Howe’s Brooklyn
Bouké Wines from North Fork Grapes Debuted in Brooklyn By Heights Resident
By Sam Howe & Friends
ONCE A WALL STREET securities analyst, Lisa Donneson has traded in that rigorous and stringent career for a no less intense but much more creative and autonomous role as entrepreneurial wine maker. Bouké (as in “bouquet”) wines just released its first three lines, as fresh and crisp as their name and label — one each of white, red, and rosé — made from Long Island’s North Fork grapes, selected by Bouké’s resident consultant, Gilles Martin.
Donneson, whose background is rooted in music (she played violin, banjo and guitar), at one time entertained so extensively that she enlisted the help of a culinary school to help her produce the events. A connection from the school mentioned to Donneson that master sommelier Andrea Robinson was giving a class {read more...} What? Another Fare Hike?
The MTA says it is considering raising fares for a second year in a row and, not surprisingly, riders are not pleased, NY1 News reported yesterday. Transit officials are expected to propose a fare increase to take effect next July {read more...}
On Tuesdays, campers at Plymouth Church Day Camp in Brooklyn Heights wear their red camp T-shirts for special activities — such as yesterday’s visit from Little Maestros, a popular toddler music program featuring four musicians singing and playing guitars, keyboard and drums. The children sang, clapped, stomped and supplied a variety of sound effects to audience participation favorites in the Blue Room.
Eagle photo by Don Evans
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The Visible — and the Unseen — Are Shaping Brooklyn Cultural District
By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Within the last month, there have been three positive and significant developments to move forward the Brooklyn Cultural District, also known as the BAM Cultural District because of its location.
One, announced last month, is for a dramatic and highly visible structure that will change the look of Flatbush Avenue. Two other developments, one announced this week, will alter interiors not seen from the street, but importantly contributing to the overall project.
The more recent announcement is about the inside of a neoclassic Brooklyn theatrical edifice called the {read more...} Brooklyn-Based Nonprofit Helps Those With Developmental Disabilities
Little Flower Celebrates 30th Year
EAST FLATBUSH — Little Flower Children Family Services of New York recently celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the opening of its Intermediate Care Facility (ICF), which provides care for adults who have complex clinical needs.
The operation arose from one of the most disturbing periods in New York State history, the scandal surrounding mistreatment of {read more...} Gov. Paterson Backs Plan For Low-Interest Student Loans
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. David Paterson is supporting a plan to create low-interest student loans for public and private universities in New York.
The state Commission on Higher Education proposed the subsidized loan program, which would be financed through tax-exempt bonds, in a 105-page report released Monday.
The governor also supports a recommendation to deregulate some areas of the State University of New York system, Paterson spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein said. The plan would give the SUNY board of trustees authority to lease university property without prior legislative approval — as long {read more...}
COBBLE HILL — Aaron “Spike” Scharf, 44, who’s lived in Cobble Hill for over 20 years, traces his desire to be a paramedic from the 1970s television show, “Emergency.”
Watching the show as a child, he was thrilled by the exploits of the ambulance crew. It was an unusual career choice for someone whose parents are both artists.
The specialty of EMS was then very new. While there were some volunteer rescue squads, hearses were often the first vehicles at an accident. The first Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) program in {read more...}
Slope Couple: Gas Drilling May Impact NYC Watershed Upstate
B’klyn Assemblyman Brennan Praised
This is regarding the issue of gas drilling in the Upper Delaware Watershed Region, which includes the Catskill/Delaware Watersheds supplying NYC via the Delaware and Catskill Aqueducts.
We live in Brooklyn and have a weekend house on the {read more...} 8 in a Row All Spruced Up; Storefronts Ready For Tenants
Design for ‘Secret Garden’ Just Completed
By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BOERUM HILL — A group of eight mixed-use buildings on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill have a new look. They’ve been painted in bright primary colors and their storefronts spruced up, ready for new tenants.
“I wanted to make this block [between 3rd and 4th avenues] a jazzy retail street,” said Barbara Koz Paley, principal with Art Assets, the owner.
Paley, who acquired the three- and four-family, three-story contiguous properties in 2005, and admits to being a collector of tapestries, said she painted {read more...} Verizon Wireless Adds 1.5 Subscribers in Second Quarter
In this file photo, a pedestrian walks past a Verizon wireless store in Union Square in Manhattan. Cell phone service provider Verizon Wireless said yesterday that it added 1.5 million net new subscribers during the second quarter, bringing its total to 68.7 million.
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Some Robbery Victims So Impressed by Operation That They Joined Them
By Tom Hays
Associated Press
CADMAN PLAZA EAST — They bound their victims with duct tape, beat them and held guns to their heads. When that didn’t work, the bandits applied pliers to their genitals and pressed hot irons to the soles of their feet. Sometimes they held victims’ heads under water in a bathtub.
Prosecutors say the torture was inflicted by a brazen New York gang that impersonated police officers and preyed on rival drug dealers along the East Coast, stealing their {read more...} Bay Ridge Crack-House Suspects Appear in Court
All Defendants, Including Former Fugitive, Make First of Many Pretrial Appearances
By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
JAY STREET — The Terrone brothers and their three alleged co-conspirators appeared in court yesterday for their first pretrial hearing before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Patricia Di Mango.
The three brothers from Bay Ridge — Joseph, 54, Michael, 47, and Ross Terrone, 45 – are charged with numerous counts of conspiracy and criminal possession and sale of a controlled substance. Gilbert Blake, 27, is charged with similar crimes, and could face additional charges for having remained a fugitive for over a week.
As first reported {read more...} Brooklyn ‘Odd Fellow’ Sentenced to Prison for Embezzlement
IRS Investigation Dethrones Grand Secretary Of Olde Fraternal Organization
By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
CADMAN PLAZA EAST — Though still altruistic with the money he embezzled and stole, the former grand secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was recently {read more...} Judge To Order Release of Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcripts
PEARL STREET (AP) — A Manhattan federal judge has indicated that he’ll release nearly all the grand jury testimony in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case.
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein told lawyers he’d rule later yesterday on a request by historical groups to make public the secret testimony in the Cold War spy case that resulted in the couple’s execution.
The government says it won’t oppose releasing testimony of dead witnesses or those who gave consent. But a prosecutor argued Tuesday that preserving grand jury secrecy outweighed the historical {read more...}
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s foreign minister says it won’t extradite a Serb basketball player who is wanted in New York on assault charges, after beating a Brooklyn man into a coma.
Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic says Miladin Kovacevic won’t {read more...}
NEW YORK (AP) — A disbarred Manhattan lawyer who pleaded guilty to statutory rape has sued the American Express Co. for giving police credit-card information he says resulted in his capture.
James Colliton was arrested in February 2006 near Toronto, where prosecutors say he fled after being indicted on charges of having sex with underage girls. The disgraced 44-year-old Colliton said Monday from his Poughkeepsie home that AmEx violated its agreement to withhold customer information from third parties.
AmEx spokeswoman Joanna Lambert says the company’s officials haven’t seen the lawsuit and can’t {read more...}
Wed. July 23, What It’s Like to Practice Law in NYC as a Woman, 6 p.m.
Women lawyers with experience in government, law firms, alternative practices and in-house law departments discuss issues affecting new lawyers. Program designed for law {read more...}
Grammy Award-winning singer John Legend delivered more than just great music at the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz at Wingate Field on July 21—he came through for children and those in poverty {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 205th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale. Drysdale was a pitcher for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1956 to 1969, compiling a {read more...} On This Day in History: July 23
Birth Anniversary of the ‘Captain’
EKRON, KY — A quarter-century after he last led his teammates out of the Ebbets Field dugout to start a game, Pee Wee Reese reflected on how he still retained the admiration of the old Brooklyn Dodgers. He observed: “Most of the players that are still alive to this day call me Captain.” And what a captain he was!
Harold Henry Reese was born on July 23, 1918 in Ekron, Kentucky, some 45 miles south of Louisville, the son of a railroad detective. Since the age of 12, he carried the {read more...}
Steve Pulls the First ‘Brodie’
BROOKLYN BRIDGE — The expression “to pull a Brodie” or “to do a Brodie” — meaning to attempt a dangerous stunt — was born when a 23-year-old New York saloon keeper, Steve Brodie, jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge 135 feet into the East River below to win a $100 wager. Many belied that Brodie did not actually leap but pushed a dummy off the bridge instead. The New York Times supported Brodie’s claim, however, reporting that a friend in a rowboat fished him out of the water, And the police {read more...}
Big ‘D’ for More Than ‘Dallas’
Don Drysdale was born on July 23, 1936. He fired a 95-mile-an-hour fastball and a wide sweeping curve, both with a sidearm motion. He was on the Brooklyn Dodgers team for two seasons before moving with them to Los Angeles. He was noted not only for his temper tantrums but for being one of baseball’s greatest pitchers. He died in 1993.
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A Brooklynite with Many Credits
BROOKLYN — Karl Swenson was born in Brooklyn on July 23, 1908. His busiest years were in radio and it seems that detective, drama or soap opera listeners could hardly have time to hear all his shows.
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Something for the Boys
BROOKLYN — [During WW II the Brooklyn Eagle regularly carried a column “On the Home Front.” The following item is reprinted from the July 23, 1943 issue).
“Bay Ridge citizens crowded around the baseball diamond on Shore Road and 79th St. {read more...}
Debut of the Coney Island Hot Dog
BROOKLYN — It may not have been called by that name at the time but Charles Feltman, a German immigrant who had a small stand at the corner of East New York and Howard avenues in Brooklyn introduced the hot dog on July 23, 1889 by putting a boiled sausage in an oblong roll. He moved his stand to Coney Island later and his sandwich became known as the “Coney Island Hot.” Some slang historians claim the term “hot dog” began from urban folklore that the sausages were made with {read more...}Yesterday in Brooklyn
Southwest Brooklyn Blackouts Largest In City This Year
Con Edison Crews Work To Prevent Wider Outages
By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BAY RIDGE — Customers suffered scattered power outages, and brownouts rippled through Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Borough Park and Park Slope over the weekend as Con Edison dealt with increased demands on its grid during the current heat wave.
As of yesterday, Con Edison reported that nearly all customers in these areas had been restored, with less than 15 households remaining without power.
However, this definitely wasn’t the case on Sunday, with a high temperature of 94 degrees. Then, four {read more...} New Expansion To Return Strand Theater to Former Glory
BRIC, Urban Glass To Expand Their Activities Within Building
BROOKLYN — With its new $17.3 million expansion, the old Strand Theater at 647 Fulton St., now the home to BRIC (the operator of BCAT, producer of Brooklyn’s public-access TV) and UrbanGlass, will once again assume the pioneering role it had as the first theater in Brooklyn to be wired for sound films in the 1920s.
The former vaudeville and movie theater’s rehabilitation will also be the next step in the emergence of the long-awaited $650 million Brooklyn Cultural District, which is {read more...} Howe’s Brooklyn
Brooklyn Filmmaker Captures ‘Hope’ In Fifteen Minutes or Less On Path to Hollywood
By Sam Howe & Friends
FLATBUSH-BASED FILMMAKER Shalini Kantayya was recently selected as one of 15 finalists in a competition to discover “inspiring and influential” filmmakers. As a passionate eco-activist and feminist, Kantayya was a natural standout at the Florida-based competition, hosted by The Doorpost Film Project. Her personal motto is “Lights, action, activism!”
“As a filmmaker and human rights activist, I believe film is the spark that can ignite positive social change,” says Kantayya. “I seek to tell stories that inspire, educate and empower audiences to see the world in a {read more...} Pro Beach Volleyball Tournament Hits Coney Sands
By Kathy Wang
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
CONEY ISLAND — The temperature hit record highs this past weekend, but that didn’t deter pro beach volleyball players, some of whom set records of their own, at the 2008 Association of Volleyball Players (AVP) Crocs Slam Brooklyn Open in Coney Island from July 18 to 20.
The No. 1-seeded powerhouse duo and Olympic gold medalists Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor took home the women’s Open title as well as a $25,000 check Sunday afternoon. They beat out Jennifer Boss and April Ross, 21-14, 21-15, in {read more...} Summer Splash on Montague Street
The temperature soared Sunday, but these kids kept cool in the traditional New York City manner – in the spray from an opened fire hydrant — on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. Engine Company 205 provided the hydrant nozzle for the third car-free Montague Street “Summer Space” event. Summer Space, hosted by the Montague Street Business District and the NYC Dept. of Transportation, repeats for its final Sunday on July 27.
— Eagle photo by Mary Frost
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Obama Goes to Mideast, and McCain Tries To Spin Situation
By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — This past weekend was one of the most bizarre national political weekends I can remember, and I have been around long enough to have experienced a lot of them.
The absolutely main reason for the weekend is that this is a presidential election year, and the incumbents (Republicans) do not want to lose. And if they must lose, they want to cut their losses the best they can. The other reason for the oddity is that Barack Obama is in the Mideast and other places.
The {read more...} Cops Nab Suspects After Brooklyn Hit-and-Runs
By Charles Sweeney
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — The perpetually congested streets of Brooklyn, with all manner of vehicles clogging the streets, pose a hazard to all pedestrians—leaving the elderly and young especially vulnerable to accidents.
Police reports revealed that last Saturday played {read more...} Brooklyn District Attorney Collects Nearly 700 Guns
Paying $200 Each, Firearms of All Varieties Removed From Streets
JAY STREET — Calling the gun buyback initiative a great success, Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes held a press conference yesterday to show off the 695 firearms he purchased over the weekend.
Pistols, shotguns, revolvers, assault rifles and submachine guns – the district attorney, in cooperation with local Brooklyn churches and the NYPD, paid $200 for each functional gun. All will be melted down. It’s all a part of the initiative to get guns off the streets of New {read more...} Former Mobster Finally Sentenced
Decade-long Prosecution Comes to an End
By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
JAY STREET — The 10-year courthouse saga surrounding former mobster Guy Zappulla came to a close yesterday afternoon in front of Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Deborah Dowling.
Convicted of the 1998 {read more...} Getting Arrested: Judicial Interns Learn What It’s Like
JAY STREET — Last week on the top floor of the Brooklyn Supreme Court’s Criminal Term, nearly 50 judicial interns showed up to learn what happens to someone in Brooklyn when he or she is arrested. From the street to the back of a squad car to the precinct; from central booking to a jail cell to arraignment in court — the college and law-school interns were educated about the process a defendant goes through in the attempt to regain his or her freedom, even if only sometimes temporary. The {read more...}
BROOKLYN (AP) — A relative of a 9/11 victim is fighting his Brooklyn co-op board, which wants to remove an American flag from his door. Vincent Romano, who’s a lawyer, says he put the flag outside his door after his {read more...}
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a New York City police detective accused of forcing a 13-year-old runaway into prostitution has resigned from the force and pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping. Wayne Taylor initially said he was “100 percent innocent” {read more...}
Two teenagers were arrested this past weekend at Joralemon and Clinton streets after going on a rampage with compressed air pistols, fitted with laser sights, according to the Brooklyn Heights Blog. The blog quotes police and eyewitnesses to the effect {read more...}
Has Convertible Units, Amenities that Reflect What Market Wants
Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
WILLIAMSBURG — Reflecting a trend in the current economy, a new 30-unit residential building opening in Williamsburg will be a rental building, according to David Maundrell, president of aptsandlofts.com, who is handling the leasing.
The building, at 924 Metropolitan Ave., between Catherine and Olive streets, is the first Williamsburg project for developer David Schwartz of Rush Brook Partners, who has previously developed mixed-use residential buildings in other parts of the borough.
“We think Williamsburg is an amazing market and {read more...} Gladstone Leaves Chamber RED Position to Earn MBA at Columbia
By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Cheryl Gladstone leaves her position this week as head of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s Real Estate and Development (RED) Division.
Gladstone, who held the position since late 2006, made the announcement at last week’s Building Brooklyn Awards, an event she has successfully coordinated for the past two years.
She will remain in Brooklyn, where she is a resident of Fort Greene, and attend Columbia Business School to earn her MBA.
“I plan to stay in New York and work in the field of real estate {read more...} Space TALK:
Governor Launches Campaign for Affordable Housing
Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Gov. David Paterson and Division of Housing & Community Renewal (DHCR) Commissioner Deborah VanAmerongen report the launch last week of a statewide campaign to promote the continued development of affordable housing.
A series of Public {read more...} Space TALK:
Trader Monthly Hosts ‘Puffout’ at Belltel Lofts
Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Trader Monthly, in association with The Bracha Group of Prudential Douglas Elliman, will host a “Wall Street Puff” (of Montecristo Cigars) on the roof at Belltel Lofts from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, {read more...} Dislocated Downtown Tenants To Celebrate Victory
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Forty immigrant families living in rent stabilized apartments destined to be seized by the city for a park and parking lot in Downtown Brooklyn have been given some hope.
In response to organizing with the group Families {read more...}
Wed. July 23, What It’s Like to Practice Law in NYC as a Woman, 6 p.m.
Women lawyers with experience in government, law firms, alternative practices and in-house law departments discuss issues affecting new lawyers. Program designed for law {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 204th day of the year. On this day in 1934, John Dillinger, the first person to receive the FBI’s appellation “Public Enemy Number One,” was killed by FBI agents as he left Chicago’s Biograph movie {read more...} On This Day in History: July 22
He Captured Modern America in His Art
MANHATTAN — Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York on July 22, 1882. His paintings show ordinary, familiar American scenes: old houses and city streets, offices and bedrooms, restaurants and theaters. But his real subject was light. Hopper used patterns of light and shadow to create a mood. At first glance, his paintings seem straightforward and realistic. But closer study reveals hints of isolation, loneliness, even sadness. When human figures are included, their expressions are blank. Hopper conveys the deep, tragic emotions that lie beneath the calm surface of {read more...}
Hello, Dolly-Wood
PIGEON FORGE, TN — On July 22, 1985 Dolly Parton, country star of movies, TV and recordings announced plans for a theme park in Pigeon Forge, TN to be called Dollywood. The 400-acre park opened in May of 1986. Its attractions include a museum featuring her handwritten lyric sheets and childhood corncob dolls; a restaurant called Aunt Granny’s Dixie Fixins, after her nieces’ and nephews’ nickname for her; and a replica of the log cabin in which Parton and her eleven siblings grew up.
Parton sank $6 million of her own {read more...}
An Italian Grows In Brooklyn
GRAVESEND — Jerry Della Femina, born on July 22, 1936, grew up in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn. He graduated from Lafayetter High School and attended Brooklyn College. In one of his books, his autobiography, An Italian Grows in Brooklyn, Jerry refers to a Prince Macaroni commercial that shows a young Italian kid in Boston running home for lunch on Wednesday. Jerry can recall the only time he came home early for lunch was when he got caught by a teacher playing craps in the hallway of LaFayette High School {read more...}
Mystery of the Lost Colony
ROANOKE ISLAND, VIRGINIA — On July 22, 1587 a group of British settlers landed on Roanoke Island, off Virginia. They expected to be welcomed by a group that had preceded them in 1585. But there was no one left. A {read more...}
Public Enemy No. 1 Gets His
CHICAGO, IL — On July 22, 1934 the first man named public enemy number one was shot dead as he exited a movie theater in Chicago. When he was 21, John Dillinger got caught robbing his first grocery store and his nine years in prison were used to polish his skills so that less than a year after his release in 1933 he was the first criminal to be named “Public Enemy No. 1” on FBI head J. Edgar Hoover’s list of wanted men. In May 1934, Dillinger had plastic {read more...} |
