• Categories
    • News
      • Business
      • Community
      • Crime
      • Education
      • Health
      • Politics
        • City
        • State
        • National
      • Science & Technology
      • Sustain Urban
      • Transit
      • Premium Content
    • Legal
      • Daily Bulletin
      • In Public Service
    • Real Estate
    • History
      • On This Day in History
    • Arts and Entertainment
      • Brooklyn Bookbeat
      • Cartoon Sketchbook
      • Our world in photos
    • Sports
      • Baseball
      • Basketball
      • Hockey
    • Food and Drink
    • Opinions
    • About Us
      • Join our team
      • Contact Us
      • Contribute
      • Newsletter
      • Advertise
  • Neighborhoods
    • Atlantic Yards
    • Bath Beach
    • Bay Ridge
    • Bedford-Stuyvesant
    • Bensonhurst
    • Bergen Beach
    • Bergen Beach
    • Boerum Hill
    • Boerum Hill
    • Borough Park
    • Borough Park
    • Boroughwide
    • Brighton Beach
    • Brooklyn Boro
    • Brooklyn Heights
    • Brownsville
    • Bushwick
    • Canarsie
    • Canarsie
    • Carroll Gardens
    • Clinton Hill
    • Cobble Hill
    • Cobble Hill
    • Columbia Waterfront
    • Coney Island
    • Coney Island
    • Crown Heights
    • Cypress Hills
    • Ditmas Park
    • Downtown
    • Downtown Brooklyn
    • DUMBO
    • DUMBO
    • Dyker Heights
    • Dyker Heights
    • East Flatbush
    • East Flatbush
    • East New York
    • East Williamsburg
    • Eastern Brooklyn
    • Flatbush
    • Flatbush
    • Flatlands
    • Flatlands
    • Fort Greene
    • Fort Hamilton
    • From The Archives
    • Georgetown
    • Gerritsen Beach
    • Gerritsen Beach
    • Gowanus
    • Gowanus
    • Grand Army Plaza
    • Gravesend
    • Gravesend
    • Greenpoint
    • Greenwood Heights
    • Industry City
    • Kensington
    • Manhattan Beach
    • Mapleton
    • Mapleton
    • Marine Park
    • Marine Park
    • Midwood
    • Midwood
    • Mill Basin
    • Navy Yard
    • New Lots
    • New Utrecht
    • New York City
    • North Brooklyn
    • Ocean Hill
    • Other Brooklyns
    • Park Slope
    • Park Slope
    • Prospect Heights
    • Prospect Lefferts
    • Prospect Park
    • Prospect Park
    • Prospect Park South
    • Queens
    • Red Hook
    • Red Hook
    • Ridgewood
    • Sea Gate
    • Sheepshead Bay
    • Sheepshead Bay
    • South Brooklyn
    • South Slope
    • Southern Brooklyn
    • Starrett City
    • Statewide
    • Sunset Park
    • Sunset Park
    • Vinegar Hill
    • Wallabout
    • Wallabout Bay
    • Western Brooklyn
    • Williamsburg
    • Windsor Terrace
CONTRIBUTE
ADVERTISE
SUBSCRIBE
CONTACT
Click here to sign up for one of our newsletters

 

Subscribe Now
  • News
    • Business
    • Community
    • Crime
    • Education
    • Health
    • Politics
    • Science & Technology
    • Sustain Urban
    • Transit
    • Premium Content
  • Legal
    • Daily Bulletin
    • In Public Service
  • Real Estate
  • History
    • On This Day in History
  • Arts and Entertainment
    • Brooklyn Bookbeat
    • Cartoon Sketchbook
    • Our world in photos
  • Sports
    • Baseball
    • Basketball
    • Hockey
  • Neighborhoods
    • On the Avenue
    • Atlantic Avenue BID
    • Industry City News
    • Brooklyn Community Boards
    • Greenpoint Gazette
    • Brooklyn Heights Press
    • The Home Reporter
    • The Record
    • Brooklyn Eagle Weekly
    • The Spectator
    • The Phoenix
  • Food and Drink
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Ask Us Anything
    • Contribute
    • Newsletter
  • Opinions

Tag: New York County Defender Services

A view of the Queens Detention Center, one of several city jails where Brooklyn Defender Services has filed a lawsuit against the NYC Department of Correction, alleging that an extensive phone call surveillance system infringes on the privacy and constitutional rights of incarcerated individuals. Photo courtesy of Queens Eagle

Brooklyn Defender Services files suit against NYC Department of Correction over phone call surveillance

April 19 | Robert Abruzzese, Courthouse Editor

Brooklyn Defender Services, alongside the Bronx Defenders and New York County Defender...

Members of Brooklyn Defender Services and other NYC public defender offices rally for justice reform. Advocating for the Youth Justice and Opportunities Act and other key legislations, they aim to reshape New York's legal system in 2024, focusing on reducing injustices against marginalized communities.Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Defender Services

Brooklyn Defender Services outlines goals for 2024 legislative session

January 23 | Robert Abruzzese, Courthouse Editor

Brooklyn Defender Services, alongside several New York City public defender offices, is...

Rikers Island complex

Into the abyss: Brooklyn Defender Services leads charge against NYC’s jails’ descent into chaos

December 5 | Robert Abruzzese, Courthouse Editor

Citing escalating violence and despair, the Brooklyn Defender Services have joined with...

Rikers Island complex

Death toll rises: William Johnstone becomes sixth fatality in NYC jails this year

July 18 | Rob Abruzzese

William Johnstone, a detainee at Rikers Island, became the sixth person to...

Rikers Island complex

NYC Department of Corrections ceases death notifications to press

June 5 | Rob Abruzzese

The New York City Department of Corrections (DOC) has found itself at...

NYC defenders decry unlawful recording of attorney-client jail calls

May 8 | Rob Abruzzese

In response to the recent New York City Department of Investigation (DOI...

Public defenders say Gov. Hochul’s budget will increase jail population

May 4 | Rob Abruzzese

A coalition of New York City public defenders has criticized Gov. Kathy...

Public defenders denied in bid to halt non-emergency in-person court proceedings amid COVID-19

July 30 | Rob Abruzzese

Two weeks ago, local public defender services from each of the five...

  • Dissenter in Court of Appeals ruling writes ‘State Constitution recognizes primacy’ of locality home rule
  • Two teens on moped were hospitalized after collision in Bensonhurst
  • NYU develops AI tool to analyze nutrition from food photos  
  • 13 people injured in fire at NYCHA building in Brownsville  
  • Brooklyn Clubhouse provides support for mental health challenges
  • NYPD honors Detective Steve Agosta in walkout ceremony
  • Cafe Spaghetti owner taking over 120-year-old Ferdinando’s Focacceria  
  • Teslas drawing rancor across borough: Swastikas and dog poop
  • Time is running out to call your local assembly member about the NY Heat Act
  • State Court of Appeals rules to block NYC’S Local Law 11 regarding non-citizens voting in municipal elections
  • Concern over Social Security requiring in-person verification for some
  • Thousands gather for 10th annual BPL Night in the Library
  • Brooklyn cafes offer paper straw alternatives in wake of National Strategy to end compulsory use of paper straws
  • Rising star chef opens second bakery drawing long lines
  • Industrial lithium battery storage, affordable housing turned into homeless shelters are issues that unite South Brooklyn
  • Hochul grapples with marijuana rollout failure
  • Bishop Brennan serves as guest at Saint Saviour for Great Diocesan Read Aloud
  • Bishop Brennan will celebrate early graduation Mass this Friday
  • Nestlé USA recalls frozen meals after consumer reports a foreign material
  • Bus driver injured after thrown bottle smashes windshield
  • See more breaking news here

    • Our world in photos

    One of the giant panda cub twins Leni or Lotti plays in the enclosure before venturing out on their first outdoor adventure, at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 20, 2025.
    Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP
    United States' Kasey Hogg competes in the women's moguls at the Freestyle World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
    Photo: Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP
    Fans celebrate after Japan defeated Bahrain in the World Cup qualifying soccer match at Saitama Stadium in Saitama, Japan, Thursday, March 20, 2025.
    Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/AP
    Barcelona's players celebrate their side's third goal during the Women's Champions League, quarter-final first leg, soccer match between VfL Wolfsburg and FC Barcelona in Wolfsburg, Germany, Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
    Photo: Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP
    Ella Osama Abu Dagga, 25 days old, is held by her great-aunt Suad Abu Dagga, after she was pulled from the rubble earlier following an Israeli army airstrike that killed her parents and brother, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 20, 2025.
    Photo: Abdel Kareem Hana /AP
    People pass a child over a barricade erected by protesters during a demonstration against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
    Photo: Odelyn Joseph/AP
    A replica of the Statue of Liberty stands at an RV Park in Waco, Texas, as the moon is in its waning gibbous stage, Thursday, March 20, 2025.
    Photo: Julio Cortez/AP
    Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets drag queen Blue Hydrangea during a St Patrick's Day reception at 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
    Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool/AP




    Subscribe to one of our weeklies here.


    Check out Brooklyn's newest environmental publication.

    Friday, March 21, 2025Mar 21, 2025 | Clouds, 44° F

    Follow

    @bkeagle
    Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to France. So says a French politician who is making headlines in his country for suggesting that the U.S. is no longer worthy of the monument, which was a gift from France nearly 140 years ago. Raphaël Glucksmann, as a member of the European Parliament and co-president of a small left-wing party in France, can’t claim to speak for all of his compatriots. But his assertion in a speech this weekend that some Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants” reflects the broad shockwaves that U.S. President Donald Trump’s seismic shifts in foreign and domestic policy are triggering in France and elsewhere in Europe. Read more at the link in bio. AP Photo/Pamela Smith, file
    A Brooklyn-based architect and urban planner has d A Brooklyn-based architect and urban planner has developed an innovative design to replace the decrepit Triple Cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, and it has received high initial marks from engineers and stakeholders. The “Streamline Plan,” by Marc Wouters Studios, represents a complete break with previous proposals from the New York City Department of Transportation, which require the teardown of the entire cantilever structure, including the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and the construction of a temporary “parallel” bypass highway, which would also ultimately have to be torn down.  The plan, which Wouters shared with the Brooklyn Eagle, would preserve the entire cantilever, eliminate the need for extensive demolition and reconstruction, and would take significantly less time and money than any of NYCDOT’s current reconstruction proposals.  Read more at the link in bio. Photo courtesy of Marc Wouters
    On Saturday, a posting on Indivisible brought appr On Saturday, a posting on Indivisible brought approximately 200 picketers to protest Elon Musk at the Tesla dealership at 9th Street and Second Avenue in Gowanus. The organizer, who identified herself only as Catherine T., said, “I can’t imagine that we aren’t out in the streets every day protesting this administration. It’s just criminal what they’re doing. And Musk, particularly, is self-dealing and sending himself billions of dollars of contracts of government money. Our tax money is going to the richest man in the world, and he’s in charge of deciding who gets it.” Read more at the link in bio. Eagle photos by Beth Eisgrau-Heller
    Patsy Grimaldi, whose name came to define pizza, a Patsy Grimaldi, whose name came to define pizza, and whose reinvented storefront underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in itself became iconic, died on Feb. 13, at age 93, according to obituaries published first in Eater and then The New York Times.  Read Grimaldi’s full obituary at the link in bio. Photo: Biz Jones
    • Join our team
    • Subscribe
    • Advertise
    • Terms & Conditions
    • About Us
    • Contact Us

    The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and brooklyneagle.com cover Brooklyn 24/7 online and five days a week in print with the motto, “All Brooklyn All the Time.” With a history dating back to 1841, the Eagle is New York City’s only daily devoted exclusively to Brooklyn.

    © 2025 Eagle Urban Media