• 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
    • Boerum Hill
    • Borough Park
    • Boroughwide
    • Brighton Beach
    • Brooklyn Heights
    • Brooklyn Navy Yard
    • Brownsville
    • Bushwick
    • Canarsie
    • Carroll Gardens
    • Central Brooklyn
    • Clinton Hill
    • Cobble Hill
    • Columbia Waterfront
    • Coney Island
    • Crown Heights
    • Cypress Hills
    • Ditmas Park
    • Downtown
    • Downtown Brooklyn
    • DUMBO
    • Dyker Heights
    • East Flatbush
    • East New York
    • East Williamsburg
    • Eastern Brooklyn
    • Flatbush
    • Flatlands
    • Fort Greene
    • Fort Hamilton
    • Georgetown
    • Gerritsen Beach
    • Gowanus
    • Grand Army Plaza
    • Gravesend
    • Greenpoint
    • Greenwood Heights
    • Industry City
    • Kensington
    • Manhattan Beach
    • Mapleton
    • Marine Park
    • Midwood
    • Mill Basin
    • New Lots
    • New Utrecht
    • New York City
    • New York State
    • Northern Brooklyn
    • Northwestern Brooklyn
    • Ocean Hill
    • Park Slope
    • Prospect Heights
    • Prospect Park
    • Prospect Park South
    • Prospect-Lefferts Gardens
    • Queens
    • Red Hook
    • Ridgewood
    • Sea Gate
    • Sheepshead Bay
    • South Brooklyn
    • South Slope
    • Southern Brooklyn
    • Southwestern Brooklyn
    • Starrett City
    • Statewide
    • 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

 

Login Subscribe My Account
  • 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: West Point

Cadet Olivia Raykhman. Photo by Wayne Daren Schneiderman

The first woman from her community to attend West Point says it’s ‘a dream come true’

August 15 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman

Cadet Olivia Raykhman admitted that in the past, when she thought of...

Field training, summer 2022. Photo courtesy of the USMA public affairs office

Premium Content:
Brooklyn-born female army cadet breaks glass ceiling at exclusive West Point Academy

August 15 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman

Cadet Olivia Raykhman admitted that in the past, when she thought of...

Col. Melissa Cantwell. Photo courtesy of Mark Getman

Fort Hamilton’s ‘Change of Command’ ceremony welcomes Col. Melissa Cantwell

July 19 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman

...

At military academies, COVID-19 is the enemy to be defeated

September 1 | Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press

As eight Navy midshipmen file into their economics class, instructor Kurtis Swope...

Egg producer gouged prices when pandemic hit, lawsuit says

August 12 | Associated Press

One of the country’s largest egg producers illegally inflated prices when...

Our world in photos: August 10

August 10 | Noah Singer

               ...

Our world in photos: June 15

June 15 | Noah Singer

           ...

Around Brooklyn: De Blasio visited Park Slope Y minutes before gyms were closed

March 17 | Noah Singer

De Blasio visited Park Slope Y minutes before gyms were closed Mayor...

Fontbonne sends another Bonnie to West Point

March 17 | Jim Dolan

DYKER HEIGHTS — When asked how it was to finally hear from...

  • 1
  • 2
  • »
  • Brooklyn Mirage cancels July shows
  • FDNY extinguishes two-alarm fire in Bed-Stuy home
  • Obscure Coffee Roasters opens Puerto Rico-focused cafe
  • Brooklyn buyer acquires Newark warehouse for $1.2 million
  • Brooklyn Brewery’s Stonewall Inn IPA named official beer of London Pride
  • Chestnut, Sudo come roaring back for yet more Nathan’s wins
  • Landmark Heights churches host Summer Hymn Sings
  • NYC placed under alert for 100-degree weather, heavy storms on Tuesday
  • Mayor, DOT Commissioner launch Dept. of Sustainable Delivery to regulate commercial e-bike use
  • Maimonides Health adopts ORBEYE Exoscope system for surgeries
  • Woman recounts assault on Brooklyn subway platform
  • Walden proposes alliance with Cuomo, Adams, Sliwa
  • NYCHA buildings receive major renovations, thanks to $1.2B from state
  • Wegmans chocolate nonpareils recalled for undeclared milk
  • Subway train hits person at Carroll St. station, in latest of several incidents this year
  • Councilmembers sponsor Brooklyn Laptop Fix-a-thon to address upcoming Windows 10 expiration
  • NYPD seeks assailants who charged cloned debit card
  • Update: Hakeem Jeffries breaks House speech record to delay GOP bill
  • Federal judge preserves Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants
  • Single moms graduating college celebrate with Jeremiah Program
  • See more breaking news here

    • Our world in photos

    Tennis coach Delfin Barrial, left, teaches children how to hold a racket during a class in the Jicamarca neighborhood on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Sunday, July 6, 2025.
    Photo: Guadalupe Pardo/AP
    Ben Shelton of the U.S. plays a return to Lorenzo Sonego of Italy during the men's singles fourth round match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Monday, July 7, 2025.
    Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
    A model wears a creation as part of the Iris van Herpen Fall-Winter 2025/26 Haute Couture collection presented Monday, July 7, 2025, in Paris.
    Photo: Tom Nicholson/AP
    A model wears a creation as part of the Iris van Herpen Fall-Winter 2025/26 Haute Couture collection presented Monday, July 7, 2025, in Paris.
    Photo: Tom Nicholson/AP
    The moon rises beyond sculptures atop the Liberty Memorial tower at the National World War I Museum Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo.
    Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP
    The pack crosses a bridge during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 178.3 kilometers (110.8 miles) with start in Valenciennes and finish in Dunkerque, France, Monday, July 7, 2025.
    Photo: Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP
    A protester covers a man, who the crowd claimed had been shot by police, with a Kenyan flag, during the historic 1990 Saba Saba, a Swahili word that means seven seven, protests for democratic reforms in the Kangemi slum of Nairobi, Kenya Monday, July 7, 2025.
    Photo: Brian Inganga/AP
    Officials ride a boat as they arrive to assist with a recovery effort at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas.
    Photo: Julio Cortez/AP

    • “Is that REALLY going to be a jail??” 
      ATLANTIC AVENUE — Exhausted shopper with cluster of bags and goods from mall at Boerum Place stops to look at huge construction site across the street. “Is that REALLY going to be a jail??”  Her male companion is reassuring, “Nothing like Rikers ... this is 21st Century.”
    • “Hope I can get them into a camp …”
      BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Overheard in line at one of most popular pastry outlets on Montague Street: "Hope I can get them into a camp ..." A mother with two pre-schoolers in tow was showing a friend the Dodge Y flyer for Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, April 26.



    Subscribe to one of our weeklies here.


    Check out Brooklyn's newest environmental publication.

    Tuesday, July 8, 2025Jul 8, 2025 | Clouds, 79° F

    Follow

    @bkeagle
    Many of the 100,000 people who held city-issued Br Many of the 100,000 people who held city-issued Brooklyn Bridge Park viewing tickets for The Macy’s July 4 Fireworks called the event a “total fiasco,” with a large number not making it onto the piers. Numerous people told the Brooklyn Eagle they found themselves in panic-inducing logjams while trying to get into the park. Many commenters said there appeared to be no central coordination for handling the huge crowds, and photos show unsafe, crammed streets.  🔗Click the link in the bio to read more and to see more photos. Photos courtesy of Murray Schechter (1), Justin Pollock (2) and Marc Hermann (3).
    It was like a bombshell dropped on Brooklyn Height It was like a bombshell dropped on Brooklyn Heights earlier this week when the city announced a police shutdown of traffic into the neighborhood — particularly, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, which will be closed to all public viewing of the Macy’s July 4th fireworks 🎇 on the waterfront. For the full story, click the link in bio. #4thofjuly #brooklynheights #brooklynheightspromenade #policeshutdown #fireworks #bkheights #promanadelockdown #brooklynbridgepark #bkeagle #news #BKnews
    This year, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade — usua This year, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade — usually one of the best spots to watch the Macy’s fireworks — will be off-limits to the public and reserved exclusively for 4,000 city employees.
 The surrounding neighborhood will face major disruptions starting at 2 PM: 
🔒 Street closures
🪪 Mandatory ID checks for residents
🚫 No vehicle access in key areas
🚷 Clark Street subway station skipped from 8–11 PM For the full story, visit the link in bio.
 Photographs by Mary Frost
    Coney Island could be getting a $3 billion casino. Coney Island could be getting a $3 billion casino. Developers say “The Coney” will bring jobs, tourists and upgrades to Stillwell Avenue and Bowery Street — but not everyone’s on board. We spoke with Coney Islanders to hear their thoughts. What’s your take? 🔗Click the link in the bio to read more. #ConeyIsland #TheConey #BrooklynNews#UrbanDevelopment #LocalVoices#ConeyIslandResidents #CommunityVoices#BrooklynEagle #CasinoProposal#ConeyIslandLegacy
    • 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