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The Miramar crew: From left (top row): David Shin, past commodore; Nasim Shamailov, commodore; and club member and attorney George Farkas.From left (seated): Leon Paley, club member; Barbara Banchik, Miramar past commodore; and Ollie Alpert, club member.Brooklyn Eagle Photos by Wayne Daren Schneiderman

Brooklyn’s many boat clubs prep for new season

March 11 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman  

SHEEPSHEAD BAY — With spring fast approaching and the 2024 boating season just...

Benjamin Anderson Bashein (left), CEO of The Skatepark Project.Photo courtesy of The Skatepark Project

Neighbors of Mount Prospect Park continue to protest skateboard arena

March 8 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman  

Full slideshow below GRAND ARMY PLAZA — A second community meeting to discuss...

Brooklyn Women's Exchange storefront.Photos: Tinks Lovelace/Brooklyn Eagle

Street’s long history highlighted at Montague Street BID’s annual meeting

March 5 | Special to the Brooklyn Heights Press by Claude Scales

Montague Street was once the principal commercial artery of the independent city...

From left to right: Jerry Kwabena Kansis, Ghanian/African Diaspora Leader; Atiba T. Edwards, President & CEO Brooklyn Children’s Museum; Tiffany Joy Murchison, founder of TJM Media; Lishawn Alexander, founder of Lishawn’s Cupcakes and Lishawn’s Consulting; and Randy Peers, President and CEO of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.Photos: Colin Williams

Black History celebration in Weeksville honors four exceptional Brooklynites

February 23 | Special from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

CROWN HEIGHTS — This week, the Brooklyn Chamber hosted an inspiring evening in...

From left: State Sen. Iwen Chu; Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar, 38th District (representing Sunset Park, Red Hook, Greenwood Heights, and parts of Windsor Terrace, Dyker Heights and Borough Park); Assemblymember Grace Lee, 65th District (representing the Financial District, Battery Park City, the Lower East Side and Chinatown); and Assemblyman William Colton, 47th District (representing Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights, and Midwood) celebrate Chinese New Year.Photos by Wayne Daren Schneiderman

Brooklyn Constituency helps to lead Chinese Lunar New Year celebration in Albany

February 18 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman  

The first official observance of the Chinese/Lunar New Year was celebrated...

It takes great music to bring out this kind of movement and joy.Photos: John McCarten/Brooklyn Eagle

A swing and a hit! Brooklyn Conservatory’s Community Orchestra brings life to a capacity crowd at gala

February 13 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman  

Full slideshow below PARK SLOPE — Duke Ellington and Irving Mills proclaimed back...

When skaters exit the elevated park, many of the good skaters will come down this stairway adjacent to one of the entrances to the Brooklyn Public Library. This is a potential danger point, as many children use this entrance to the library.Photos: Wayne Daren Schneiderman/Brooklyn Eagle

‘This is going to be a nightmare’:
‘Skate Garden’ proposed for Brooklyn’s Mount Prospect Park met with public resistance

February 9 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman  

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — If you build it, they won’t come. In an...

The crowds on the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian walkway have been steadily increasing since the bike lane was removed during the de Blasio administration. This photo shows the walkway during the summer of 2023.Photos: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle

Brooklyn Bridge walkway was so crowded over the weekend police shut it down

January 3 | Mary Frost

BROOKLYN BRIDGE — The Brooklyn Bridge was so crowded with pedestrians mashed together...

The Mary Whalen, a 1930s-era former oil tanker that is now being restored and that hosts cultural and educational programs.Photo: Mary Frost/Brooklyn Eagle

B’klyn offshore tanker, synagogue and brewery nominated for historic status

December 29 | Raanan Geberer

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday announced the New York State Board for...

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    Photo: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
    Tilda Swinton holds the honorary Golden Bear for her life work during the opening of the International Film Festival, Berlinale, in Berlin, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025.
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    Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, attends a meeting with United States Vice-President JD Vance on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025.
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    Students march near the village of Cumic near the Serbian industrial town of Kragujevac, to protest the deaths of 15 people killed in the November collapse of a train station canopy, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025.
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    Shane Van Gisbergen (88) and Cody Ware (51) crash during the second of two NASCAR Daytona 500 qualifying auto races Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.
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    President Donald Trump points to a reporter and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington.
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    A couple hug each other in front of a heart decorated with red balloons, at a sea view point in Agios Theodoros village, in Larnaca district, Cyprus, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025.
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    Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, greets Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education, at the start of a hearing of the Health, Education, and Labor Committee on McMahon's nomination, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington.
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    The egg shortage has awakened many New Yorkers to The egg shortage has awakened many New Yorkers to the prevalence of a serious type of bird flu, officially dubbed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.  The virus, carried long distances by migratory ducks and geese, is causing outbreaks in poultry and dairy farms across the country.  Now researchers suspect that farm cats may play a role in spreading the virus, and veterinarians are warning house cat owners that the virus can be deadly for felines as well.  Read more at the link in bio. Photo: Erin Scott/The White House via AP
    A coalition of preservationists and environmentali A coalition of preservationists and environmentalists is racing to save the SS United States, the largest and most famous ocean liner ever built in the United States. The celebrated vessel, launched in 1951 and bigger than the Titanic, still holds the transatlantic speed record and remains a symbol of America’s proud maritime history, members of the ‘New York Coalition to Save the SS United States’ said Thursday. The coalition includes Brooklyn industrialist John Quadrozzi Jr., members of the Lower Manhattan Historical Association and others.  Read more at the link in bio. AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File
    One of the two pilots of the flight that crashed i One of the two pilots of the flight that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday after a mid-air collision with a military helicopter was 34-year-old native Brooklynite Jonathan Campos. A woman who lived in Brooklyn was also among the victims, according to Mayor Eric Adams. Read more at the link in bio. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
    Floyd — a popular bar with a 40-foot indoor bocc Floyd — a popular bar with a 40-foot indoor bocce court, located at 131 Atlantic Ave. before it closed in December — is seeking to reopen at 72 Clark St. between Hicks and Henry streets, according to The Brooklyn Heights Blog. According to paperwork filed by one of the owners, Kevin Avanzato, the bar will seat 16 at two tables and 24 at the bar for a total of 40 seats. It will feature rustic decor and will have a pizza oven, bocce playing area and three TVs for live sports viewing. Read more at the link in bio. Photo courtesy of Floyd
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