STANDING O: Standing O is back and cheering Brooklyn on!
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailySheepshead Bay Sheepshead Bay is headed for one heck of a beauty makeover thanks to the...
View ArticleCONEY ISLAND: Hand-in-hand! Gowanus couple show strength in arm-wrestling...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailySome of the city’s biggest biceps flexed their way to dominance at the 2012 Brooklyn-Kingsboro Arm-Wrestling Championships on Aug. 26...
View ArticleWILLIAMSBURG: Tomorrow! Pfight for your right to party
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.by Hanna Palmer EganBrooklyn DailyBeing surrounded by lab coats isn’t how you want to end your night out — but it’s exactly how this party’s getting started....
View ArticleWEEKEND WATCH: Get ready for a train-ache!
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eli RosenbergBrooklyn DailyIt looks like the trains are on vacation this weekend folks — there’s no other plausible explanation for the totally messed-up train...
View ArticleFLATBUSH: ‘Gloves not guns’ takes off in Flatbush
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eli RosenbergBrooklyn DailyAn after-school program for at-risk youth is trying to decrease violence on the streets of Brooklyn by banking on the fact that boxing...
View ArticlePOLITICS: The party’s over! Lopez to step down as Democratic chairman next month
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyEmbattled Assemblyman Vito Lopez will give up his powerful post as Brooklyn Democratic party boss amid allegations that he groped...
View ArticleFLATBUSH: Greener pastures for a greener Flatbush
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eli RosenbergBrooklyn DailyBrooklyn loves urban farms — and it’s on its way to getting a new one. Two Flatbush groups came...
View ArticleIT’S ONLY MY OPINION: In politics, life imitates the Junior High School
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Stanley P. GershbeinBrooklyn DailyWay back in the middle of the last century, the arguments that took place between the students of Junior High School 149 in East...
View ArticleCONEY ISLAND: Coney Minor Leaguers play for quarters — literally
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eli RosenbergBrooklyn DailyThe Cyclones bullpen wants to test your arm — and collect your spare change. Brooklyn’s hurlers are channeling Coney Island’s carnival...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: Marshalls madness! Hundreds flock to department store’s grand...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailySheepshead Bay shoppers flocked to Avenue Y on Thursday morning to be among the first fashionistas...
View ArticleLETTERS: ‘Dollar vans should be barred from Flatbush Avenue’
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyTo the editor, Those dollar vans that travel on Flatbush Ave to and from Kings Plaza (“Dollar van fare battle,” the Kings Courier, Aug. 16) are putting...
View ArticleMILL BASIN: Color collision!
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThese colors don’t run — instead, you run through them. Nearly 25,000 amateur athletes flocked to...
View ArticlePOLITICS: Who will be the next party boss? Rival Dems vie to replace Vito Lopez
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle Furfaro and Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyRival politicos from liberal Brownstone Brooklyn and old school Southern Brooklyn are fighting to become Brooklyn’s...
View ArticlePOLITICS: District Attorney: I won’t prosecute Vito Lopez, but someone should
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyDistrict Attorney Charles Hynes wants the state to assign a special prosecutor to investigate...
View ArticleCONEY ISLAND: Teenager disappears after visiting Coney Island
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Thomas TracyBrooklyn DailyA worried New Jersey family is desperately searching for their missing daughter who was last seen soaking up the sun in Coney Island....
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: Akselrod: Cymbrowitz won’t debate me
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyDemocratic Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowtiz is afraid to debate, the legislator’s challenger claimed this week as he lashed out against the...
View ArticleBENSONHURST: Festa di Santa Rosalia Feast resurrected — with pictures!
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyA beloved end-of-summer tradition that was unceremoniously cancelled last year was resurrected...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: Schooled! Two mosque protestors snubbed at backpack giveaway
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyTwo Sheepshead Bay residents still fighting the hopeless battle to stop the construction of a...
View ArticleMANHATTAN BEACH: Hot-button issue: Jewish residents say they can’t cross...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyOriental Boulevard’s pedestrian-activated stoplight at Ocean Avenue is designed to slow down cars, but it’s also bringing religious Jews...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE: Drug dealers have taken over 73rd Street, residents say
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyResidents of 73rd Street say cops are doing nothing to stop the hoodlums who have turned their street into a hotspot for drug...
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