This is the 26th overall conviction overturned since the CRU was founded. Image via Pexels

Rape conviction overturned due to dementia diagnosis

May 23 | Noah Goldberg

Carolina Salguero of PortSide NewYork is involved in a campaign to save the historic Lidgerwood Building from demolition. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan

Red Hook activists fight to save historic factory from UPS demolition

May 23 | Lore Croghan

Coney Island. Photo by Paul Frangipane

Brooklyn beach season starts Saturday. Here’s what you need to know.

May 23 | Scott Enman

For Brooklyn libraries, the 2020 executive budget calls for $105.9 million, down from the $106.4 million proposed in the Fiscal 2019 Adopted Budget. Eagle file photo

Libraries face ‘undemocratic’ cut, jeopardizing 2020 Census

May 23 | Mary Frost

A rendering of the proposed BQX streetcar runs through Downtown Brooklyn. Photo courtesy of Friends of the BQX

Proposed BQX streetcar faces its first test

May 23 | Scott Enman

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

Eagle goes aboard the USS New York

May 23 | Mary Frost

Crime

This is the 26th overall conviction overturned since the CRU was founded. Image via Pexels

Rape conviction overturned due to dementia diagnosis

May 23 | Noah Goldberg

The Brooklyn DA threw out the conviction of a man who pleaded...

Real Estate

Carolina Salguero of PortSide NewYork is involved in a campaign to save the historic Lidgerwood Building from demolition. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan

Red Hook activists fight to save historic factory from UPS demolition

May 23 | Lore Croghan

Red Hook community activists are protesting the scheduled demolition of the Lidgerwood...

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...

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

For Brooklyn libraries, the 2020 executive budget calls for $105.9 million, down from the $106.4 million proposed in the Fiscal 2019 Adopted Budget. Eagle file photo

Libraries face ‘undemocratic’ cut, jeopardizing 2020 Census

May 23 | Mary Frost

The city’s three public library systems — Brooklyn, Queens and New York...

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...

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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