Teacher’s pet: Jonathan Lethem says new top school official was his favorite...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Ryan SitBrooklyn DailyThe city’s new school chancellor is Brooklyn to the core — and one famous native son would give her another apple if he could. Carmen Farina...
View ArticlePARK SLOPE: Cop shack shock on DeBlasio’s block
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Megan RieszBrooklyn DailyThe mayor’s new guardhouse has already landed him in the doghouse. A mini-police fortress installed...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE: Police, please! Ridge board wants traffic cops for troubled...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyCould a traffic agent point the way out of Bay Ridge’s dysfunction junction? Community Board 10 is calling on the police department’s...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s 14 to watch in 2014
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By The Brooklyn Daily Prognostication TeamBrooklyn DailyThe future is unknowable, but we are students of the recent past and,...
View ArticleGOWANUS: Go-wan hear this: The five most Gowanus talks at TEDxGowanus
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Megan RieszBrooklyn DailyFans of Gowanus, your time has finally arrived. The TEDxGowanus conference will see people with big Gowanus-related ideas gather by the...
View ArticleLETTERS: Sound Off to the Editor
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyTo the editor, If one wonders why the foot traffic at Kings Plaza Shopping Center is growing less and less each year, one only has to remember what...
View ArticleBOOKS: What to read this week
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyWORD’s pick: “Stay Up With Me” by Tom Barbash The episodes of awkwardness, embarrassment, selfishness, and...
View ArticlePOLITICS: DeBlasio corrected for showing up to jailer graduation an hour late
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyIf half of life is just showing up, then Mayor DeBlasio better be good at the other half. On Friday, Sloper-in-Chief DeBlasio further...
View ArticleBIG SCREECHER: Carmine says goodbye to a few friends
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Carmine Santa MariaBrooklyn DailyI’m madder than old Ebenezer Scrooge when those three ghosts crashed an otherwise perfectly fine long-winter’s nap over the fact...
View ArticleCOBBLE HILL: Out of Africa: Filmmaker revisits his trip to Angola in live...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyIt is a long way from here to Angola. And, apparently, it takes even longer to make a film about going there. Dancer and filmmaker...
View ArticleCONEY ISLAND: Our Lady of Solace youth baseball league looks to get back on...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailySuperstorm Sandy destroyed their office and all their equipment, but it couldn’t dampen the resolve of the Our Lady of Solace...
View ArticleCareer night from Mockford powers St. Francis past rival LIU in Battle of...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailySt. Francis College’s Ben Mockford could hear someone on the Long Island University bench...
View ArticleIT’S ONLY MY OPINION: Stan is sure he can keep it up
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Stanley P. GershbeinBrooklyn DailyIn 1833, Charles Lamb wrote, “The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.” The following is...
View ArticleGOWANUS: Sludgie the whale returns to Gowanus — kinda
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Megan RieszBrooklyn DailyIt is a whale of an exhibition. Literally. “Sludgie,” the ill-fated baby whale that famously meandered into the Gowanus Canal in April...
View ArticlePARK SLOPE: Reporter co-opts the grocery aisle
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Megan RieszBrooklyn DailyWatch out, Coca-Cola — the co-op is coming. New York Times investigative reporter and Park Slope Food Co-op veteran Michael Moss will...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: Skipping recess? Kids at PS-IS 206 give up free time to help...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailySometimes students make the best teachers. A group of 80 fifth-through-eighth-grade students at PS-IS 206 in Sheepshead Bay have been...
View ArticleWILL’S WATCH: Cats scratch: Catsimatidis reportedly pushing Democratic...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyRepublican sources say supermarket mogul and former GOP hizzoner hopeful John Catsimatidis is urging Democrat Andrew Gounardes to...
View ArticleFraser’s late free throws secure South Shore tight victory over Murry Bergtraum
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyMissing her first two free throws bothered South Shore star forward Brianna Fraser, and inspired her to sink her last four when it...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: All-Brooklyn Girls soccer honors
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyBrooklyn proved to be one of the city’s most competitive boroughs in girls’ soccer. Fort Hamilton prevailed for the third-straight...
View ArticleBOROBEAT: L & M Tours celebrates 15 years in business with a party for staff...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyA small business is like a guppy in the shark-invested waters of a tough economy, but L & M...
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