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Brooklyn mail carrier gets 30 months for stealing $4M in money orders

January 5 | Rob Abruzzese

EAST FLATBUSH — A 31-year-old mail carrier in Brooklyn was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Wednesday after she was caught stealing more than $4 million worth of blank money orders from the post office where she worked on Utica Avenue in East Flatbush. Jaleesa Wallace, who was fired from her job in August […]

Family feud explodes over ownership of East Flatbush building

November 14 | Helen Klein, Special to the Brooklyn Eagle

EAST FLATBUSH – It’s father vs. son. The dad is 95-year-old Navy veteran Mario Bisogno, Sr., who, as a teenager, served aboard a munitions carrier in the Pacific during World War II. Bisogno, a Gravesend resident, who spent his post-Navy years as a butcher, working out of a store on Nostrand Avenue in East Flatbush, […]

NYC Health + Hospitals Kings County awarded pathway to excellence designation

October 24 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

EAST FLATBUSH – NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County announced Friday that they received a prestigious designation, the Pathway to Excellence ® of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), that commends the hospital’s efforts in creating a positive work environment and integrating nurse involvement in all facets of the hospital. At the corner of Winthrop and […]