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The 16 to watch in 2016
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By the Courier Life Prognostication BureauBrooklyn DailyThis list literally gets harder every year, but we’ve done it again —...
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GREENPOINT: Drawn with a free hand: Ballpoint pen artist practiced while in...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Allegra HobbsBrooklyn DailyThis ex-con artist turned sketch artist! An illustrator who honed his artistic craft while behind...
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BOROBEAT: Big splash! Polar plunge draws record number of swimmers
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyThese polar bears are anything but endangered. A record 2,600 souls braved the Atlantic Ocean’s...
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BOERUM HILL: Towering ink-ferno: Tattoo artists paint model water towers
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyThis show is more than skin-deep. A group of tattoo and graffiti artists have exchanged their...
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BOROBEAT: Revelers avoid Times Square in favor of the People’s Playground
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyTimes Square? Fugheddaboudit! Thousands of revelers descended on Coney Island to ring in 2016 on...
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MIDWOOD: Center’s stage: New music series at East Midwood Jewish Center
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Bill RoundyBrooklyn DailyMidwood has a new music spot! A fiery Latin jazz band will heat things up as part of a new music...
View ArticleDEVELOPMENT: Religious conversions: Greenpoint parish joins long line of boro...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Allegra HobbsBrooklyn DailyIt is the Borough of Churches no more! Greenpoint’s historic Church of the Ascension has sold its...
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HEALTH: Brooklyn does it again! Borough home to first New Year’s baby...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyYo, baby! Brooklyn welcomed the city’s first new born of 2016 at Coney Island Hospital. Young Zayden...
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SHEEPSHEAD BAY: Big wheels keep on turnin’: Checking up on the B44...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyCommunity boards in Canarsie and Sheepshead Bay are bracing for a new B82 Select Bus Service whose proposed dedicated bus lane will...
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CANARSIE: Lane drain: Bus service would remove lane from Flatlands Ave.,...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThey’re shouting “Stop the bus.” The Metropolitan Transportation Authority must put the brakes on a plan to create a bus-only lane on...
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CANARSIE: Sweating bullets: Photo threatening pols ignites firestorm
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyTalk about a powder-keg situation. The National Rifle Association took aim at two Brooklyn politicians on Jan. 4 — responding to the pols’...
View ArticlePODCAST: MEDIA: Today on Brooklyn Paper Radio: Christopher Swain
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyJoin our pals Vince and Gersh on Brooklyn Paper Radio when they sit down with “Toxic Avenger” Christopher Swain, who last year became a Brooklyn legend...
View ArticleA BRITISHER’S VIEW: Trumping logic! America’s love affair with...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a sexist, race-baiting, anti-immigrant political freak who makes crude comments...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE NIGHTS: Chill out with classic rock in the Ridge
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyHappy weekend, Bay Ridge! We are hitting the ground running here in 2016. But in this new year, some things are still the same — plenty...
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CRIME: Blood feud: Gruesome Sunset Park shooting stemmed from 20-year vendetta
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyA Manhattan man told police he shot and killed an elderly Sunset Park man in a dispute that was two decades and thousands of miles in...
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DEVELOPMENT: EXCLUSIVE: Keep company! Plans for ‘castle’-like...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyIt could be this castle’s fairy-tale ending. The landmarked, keep-like 68th Precinct station house in Sunset Park may finally get a...
View ArticleLETTERS: Sound Off to the Editor
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyTo the editor, This morning I watched in tears as the little 4-year-old son of NYPD Detective Joseph Lemm, who was one of six soldiers murdered in...
View ArticlePARK SLOPE: All about that brass: Balkan music fest showcases Raya Brass Band
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn DailyThese bands are Balkan up! Park Slope’s ornate Grand Prospect Hall will shake with the rollicking sounds of the Balkans on Jan. 15 and...
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BOOKS: What to read this week
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyWord’s pick: “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” by Karen Joy Fowler As a social experiment, Rosemary’s...
View ArticleBIG SCREECHER: Classic Carmine: A visit to the Guggenheimlich!
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Carmine Santa MariaBrooklyn DailyI’m madder than an art student with a two-legged easel over how much the city has changed since they built that darn...
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