BAY RIDGE: Ridge church reborn
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyIt’s a miracle! The Union Church of Bay Ridge is bucking the trend — instead of closing due to...
View ArticleBENSONHURST: Wholesale ahead! BJ’s opens in Bensonhurst
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyBig-box buying comes to Bensonhurst. BJ’s Wholesale Club opened its Bensonhurst store quietly on...
View ArticleJOE KNOWS: Morton, Whitehead combo must watch at Seton Hall
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyLegendary Abraham Lincoln boys’ basketball coach Dwayne “Tiny” Morton is now officially an assistant at Seton Hall, but the nearly...
View ArticleBERGEN BEACH: Bergen Beachers blast buses
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Vanessa OgleBrooklyn DailyThe stink from idling school buses at a Bergen Beach depot has neighbors fuming. Residents near the New Dawn Transit bus depot on E....
View ArticleSTANDING O: Standing O is at it again!
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyMidwood The Senior Citizens League of Flatbush has been around almost as long as Standing O, and it just moved into a brand new,...
View ArticleSTANDING O: Standing O is lobbing one over the net for borough tennis ace
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyMidwood Aces to Midwood daughter Maria Kogarova, who was honored with the “Billie Jean King Junior” award, personally presented to...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: Homeless stop at Sheepshead Bay train station
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Vanessa OgleBrooklyn DailySome residents say the growing number of homeless people taking up residence at the Sheepshead Bay...
View ArticleGOWANUS: Nursery crimes! MC Frontalot has a twisted take on fairy tales
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyAnd they all lived rap-pily ever after. Hip-hop musician MC Frontalot is best known as the godfather of nerdcore rap — a genre that...
View ArticleBOERUM HILL: Days of awe-some! P’Slope rabbi hopes to make high holy days hip
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matthew PerlmanBrooklyn DailyThe high holy days are going hipster. Rabbi Dan Ain is ringing in the Jewish New Year with a...
View ArticleSTANDING O: Tripping the light fantastic with salsa dancing
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBrooklyn Heights Dance, teach, & merengue Savvy-steppin’, smart-brained Brianna Rios is a world champion salsa dancer and a...
View ArticleMARINE PARK: Cops: Pregnant woman attacked in hate crime
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Vanessa OgleBrooklyn DailyA man accused of attacking a pregnant Pakistani woman and her family in Marine Park has been charged with hate crimes. Andrew Laina...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE: Broken homes: Ridgites fight to stop illegal conversions
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyIt’s a dicey subject. Ridgites and politicians are scrambling to stop greedy property owners from illegally dicing up one-family homes...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE: Living up to its name
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyOur Lady of Perpetual Help is hosting a benefit Saturday to help an alumna whose children were born with a tragic genetic disease. Lina Sereno grew up...
View ArticleA BRITISHER’S VIEW: Lame-brain Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito rebuffs...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyBritish author P.G. Wodehouse once wrote about a dimwit subject that if his brains were made of silk, there wouldn’t be enough...
View ArticleBOROBEAT: Cosmos soccer clinic out of this world
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Noah HurowitzBrooklyn DailyThese kids kicked for the stars. Youngsters from all over the city huddled up at Washington Park...
View ArticleWILLIAMSBURG: His way is the high way
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Noah HurowitzBrooklyn DailyThis guy wants to get you high before work. A real estate executive is pitching a network of...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE NIGHTS: Bay Ridge brings the heat!
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyCool weather is moving in, but Bay Ridge is still heating up! Rollicking rock and roll, acoustic balladeers, and a litter of lively Irish...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: Rude writings in Sheepshead Bay
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Vanessa OgleBrooklyn DailyPolitically charged graffiti scattered around Sheepshead Bay is really leaving a mark. Many of the...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE: Live poets society meets at Bay Ridge bar
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyA poetry club in Bay Ridge? Get outta here! A cadre of creative types called the Bay Ridge Poets Society meets monthly at The Owl’s Head...
View ArticleBOOKS: What to read this week
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyWord’s pick: “Through the Woods” by Emily Carroll If you’re squeamish or easily spooked, maybe you should keep...
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