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Opinions & Observations: Why Earth Day MUST be every day, if we want to heal our global ills

April 27 | Larry Penner

TO THE EDITOR: Let us celebrate Earth Day April 22nd all year...

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April 24 | Sara Kross, PhD

Part sport, part mindfulness, part meditation: birding is what many of us...

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My father’s early Brooklyn photos are a treasure I didn’t know existed

April 24 | Phil Kaufman

My father, Irving Kaufman, loved New York. Or at least, as I...

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Opinions & Observations: How we should think about Earth Day in the time of coronavirus

April 22 | Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams

Earth Day 2020 marks yet another day of uncertainty and hardship for...

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Opinions & Observations: Solace at the Cemetery: Three Days Amidst the Corona Pandemic

April 13 | Todd Friedman

Day 1 I have come to Green-Wood Cemetery Seeking solace. I...

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April 10 | Katherine Walsh, Democrat for NYS Assembly

I don’t remember all that much about first grade. But I...

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April 9 | Marc Lovci, Gary G. Terrinoni, Fern J. Finkel

TO THE EDITOR: Thank you again for your special local reporting of...

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April 3 | Irina Golub

Irina Golub is a member of the Coalition of New York City...

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April 1 | Gary Terrinoni, The Brooklyn Hospital Center

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ULURP — What It Is, How It Might Affect You, Why You Should Care

Read about the lobbying affecting ULURP by Asar John here.

To learn more about ULURP, read Fast Facts about ULURP by Lore Croghan.

Brooklyn Bird Watch

Following up on your Bird coverage — as a former resident of Brooklyn now living in Florida, and a bird lover, I was pleased to see the excellent photo of the Northern Cardinal by Heather Wolf featured in the Brooklyn Eagle’s “BirdWatch” series.

I remember a few years ago a co-worker came in to work one day very excited about a bird she had seen. She had already told me about her grandfather in Albania who was a serious bird lover, and her fond memories from childhood of her grandparents’ home being filled with the sounds of Albanian goldfinches and canaries.

She knew I liked photographing birds, and she said: “I saw this bird in the park yesterday, I’ve never seen one like that, it was so beautiful; it was completely bright red all over.”  I smiled and told her it was the male cardinal.

A few months later, after seeing a red male cardinal fly through the courtyard where I live, I figured there might be Cardinals living nearby. I created a bird feeder, and soon,  as I had hoped, a pair of cardinals appeared. Neither the male nor female cardinal would visit the feeder placed up on the fence, but would instead, as your Eagle notes describe, stay close together and near the ground, very cautiously and quietly approaching the birdseed I had spread over the concrete. What a treat!

Photo by Joseph Palmer

Click here to read this week’s story from Brooklyn Dogs titled, “A Dog Named Schooner.”

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