USS New York Captain Brent DeVore. Eagle photo by Mary Frost

Eagle goes aboard the USS New York

May 23 | Mary Frost

Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 has its own parking space for a vehicle purchased with public funds. Photo: Claudia Irizarry Aponte/THE CITY

Brooklyn community board roils over $26,000 SUV splurge

May 23 | Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Clifford Michel, THE CITY

10 cyclists have been killed throughout the city so far in 2019, already matching the total number killed all of last year. Eagle file photo

Why are so many cyclists dying on southern Brooklyn streets?

May 23 | By Scott Enman, Paul Frangipane, Lawrence Madsen

All five borough presidents are calling on New York City to make major changes to its preschool and childcare contracts. Photo via Stephanie Wang/Chalkbeat

Education & Kids

New York City borough presidents echo demands for a do-over of pre-K, early childhood plans

May 22 | Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York

260 Clifton Place has been empty since a 2010 fire. Photo via Google Maps

$1M Bed-Stuy brownstone stolen from 80-year-old woman, DA says

May 22 | Ned Berke

A variety of activity is ongoing at Futureworks Makerspace. Photos courtesy of NYCEDC

Manufacturing the future: New tech hub lands in Sunset Park

May 22 | Jaime DeJesus

Crime

260 Clifton Place has been empty since a 2010 fire. Photo via Google Maps

$1M Bed-Stuy brownstone stolen from 80-year-old woman, DA says

May 22 | Ned Berke

Two alleged fraudsters swindled an 80-year-old woman out of her...

Real Estate

Happy 200th birthday to famed poet Walt Whitman. AP photo

Visit Walt Whitman’s park on his 200th birthday

May 22 | Lore Croghan

Famed poet and former Brooklyn Eagle editor Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday...

The second tower from the left in the revised rendering is 200 Montague St. In the image showing the property’s existing condition, it’s the shortest building. Beyer Blinder Belle images via the Landmarks Preservation Commission

Landmarked Brooklyn Heights bank slated for demolition

May 22 | Lore Croghan

The city has given developers the go-ahead to tear down a...

Arts and Entertainment

Arts and Entertainment

Electronics Technician 3rd Class Samuel Gordon conducts a Memorial Day tour of the guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto in Brooklyn during Fleet Week New York 2017. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Cole Keller

Your guide to 2019 Fleet Week in Brooklyn

May 21 | Mary Frost

2019 Fleet Week New York is a great opportunity to meet sailors...

A visitor at the London exhibit. Photo courtesy of Adrienne Adar

Make music by poking plants at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

May 21 | Scott Enman

A new botanical exhibit in Brooklyn invites visitors to interact with plants...

Politics

Eric Schneiderman resigned as attorney general in May 2018 after The New Yorker detailed allegations of his physical abuse of women in an article. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer.

The Eric Schneiderman saga is over, and it cost taxpayers at least $23M

May 17 | Noah Goldberg

When Flatbush residents elected Farah Louis to represent them in the City...

A tone-deaf moment: Mayor Bill de Blasio stands on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade in a presidential campaign video released Thursday. He recently proposed replacing the Promenade with a six-lane highway during BQE reconstruction. Screen grab via de Blasio campaign video.

De Blasio chooses promenade he wanted to tear down as prop for presidential bid

May 16 | Mary Frost

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s use of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade as...

Environment

Two layers of booms help to contain oil from entering the main body of Newtown Creek and eventually New York Harbor. Photo courtesy of Newtown Creek Alliance

There are 3 active oil spills on Newtown Creek

May 20 | Scott Enman

Three properties along Newtown Creek are actively discharging oil into the waterway...

Plastic water bottles are one of the most common pieces of litter in and around the Hudson River. Eagle file photo by Paul Frangipane

After plastic bag ban, activists turn attention to bottles

May 16 | Scott Enman

Less than a month after plastic bags were banned in New York...

Opinions

Brooklyn College is one of more than 20 schools in the CUNY system. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

OPINION: Stop writing off CUNY as a ‘value college’

May 15 | Jonathan Sperling

Earlier this month I was ecstatic to learn that I made the...

Kayla Bri Simon is a Girl Scout from Canarsie. Photo courtesy of family

OPINION: This girl scout wants more money for parks

May 10 | Kayla Bri Simon

As a kid who goes to my local park in Canarsie, Brooklyn...

History

MILESTONES: May 22, birthdays for Naomi Campbell, Frank Converse, Garry Wills

May 22 | Brooklyn Eagle

NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include director and actor Richard Benjamin...

May 22: ON THIS DAY in 1943, world communism ended

May 22 | Brooklyn Eagle

ON THIS DAY IN 1852, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “DISCOVERY OF...

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