BAY RIDGE: VIDEO: Attempted arborcide on Fifth Avenue
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyCall him a tree thugger! A young man attacked a pair of potted pines outside a Fifth Avenue eatery in the early hours of May 21....
View ArticleBOROBEAT: Brooklyn College congratulates Class of 2014 with pomp-filled...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyFlatlands emergency medical technician Kevin Marcellus, 24, almost didn’t make it to his...
View ArticleBOROBEAT: Off to see the wizard! Grammar school brings ‘Oz’ to life
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailySomewhere over the rainbow turns out to be PS 192 on 18th Avenue. Seventy-five third graders...
View ArticleSTANDING O: Standing O joins with national organization to salute borough son...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyCrown heights Prodigal son recognized Congratulations are in order for borough son Jim Saintgermain, founder and executive director...
View ArticleBOOKS: What to read this week
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyWord’s pick: “The Painter” by Peter Heller I’ve been obsessively recommending Heller’s debut novel, “The Dog...
View ArticlePARK SLOPE: Electric lady lands: Celebrate Brooklyn! blasts off with Janelle...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyThe mothership is landing in Prospect Park. On June 4, funk goddess Janelle Monae will open this year’s season of music at Celebrate...
View ArticleCROWN HEIGHTS: Bidding farewell to Fantasia
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matthew PerlmanBrooklyn DailyWhat a long, slithering trip it’s been. Fantasia, the beloved and majestic albino Burmese...
View ArticleBENSONHURST: On fire! Flames celebrate 40 years of breaking barriers
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyForty years and these kids are still red hot! Some 400 kids came out to John Dewey High School...
View ArticleIT’S ONLY MY OPINION: Stan on murder, the death penalty, and scams
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Stanley P. GershbeinBrooklyn DailyIn bars, barber shops, and at cocktail parties all over America, there is a lot of talk about the botched execution of the...
View ArticleMEADOWS OF SHAME: G’point mom: Women, kids locked in McCarren Park bathroom...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyThey were trapped in the water closet. A woman claims a vindictive parks employee locked her...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE: Man arrested in Ridge with sack full of weapons
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyPolice arrested a man in the 86th Street R station on May 27 who they say was carrying a shotgun, ammo, a laser sight, and a machete....
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: Hit the road! Board pans traffic safety plan
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThe state’s traffic-safety pitch was a wreck. Members of Community Board 18 sent the state back to the drawing board after it presented a...
View ArticleMARINE PARK: Build It Backs off: CB18 to get meeting room back from recovery...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyAfter a nearly year-long exile, Community Board 18 will once again be allowed to assemble in its...
View ArticleFLATLANDS: Fostering safety: Traffic-calming coming to Foster Avenue
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyFlatlands is moving full speed ahead with a plan to slow down traffic. The city rolled out a slate...
View ArticlePROSPECT HEIGHTS: It’s Memorial Day! And this is the best thing we ate this...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn DailyIt has been widely said that size doesn’t matter. But when Mark Roper puts his “ginormous beef rib” in front of you at Morgan’s...
View ArticleMARINE PARK: Risking life and limb: Falling branch sends Sheepshead Bay woman...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThe has been another casualty in the long-fought battle between humans and trees. A Sheepshead Bay woman was injured when a massive branch...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE: Nation’s oldest Memorial Day Parade marches again in Bay Ridge
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyThousands of Brooklynites lined Third Avenue on May 26 to observe America’s oldest parade...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: THURSDAY: Councilman: ‘Tell me what you want’
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyCouncilman Chaim Deutsch is asking his constituents for marching orders. The freshman legislator will convene a Participatory Governing meeting on...
View ArticleBIG SCREECHER: Carmine’s had it with the dangerous El!
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Carmine Santa MariaBrooklyn DailyI’m madder than Beau Brummel in a polyester leisure suit with Payless shoes over the fact that my arch nemesis — that stupid...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Yellow Jackets can’t complete comeback in quarterfinal...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyTelecommunications’s softballers had every reason to hang their heads, but that wasn’t the way they wanted to leave the field. They...
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