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BOROBEAT: St Edmunds transforms civic meeting into symphony
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThis band is more than meets the eye. The St. Edmunds Preparatory High School Band regaled members...
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BUSHWICK: Book with a twist
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyThe new Miss America lives in Windsor Terrace, DieHipster.com is dead, and now a contortionist gets ready for her big interpretation...
View ArticleBIG SCREECHER: How Sovereign bank is ruining my pal’s life
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Carmine Santa MariaBrooklyn DailyI’m madder than TV’s Jim Cramer wearing a short-sleeved shirt that he can’t roll up over the fact that banks today have gotten...
View ArticleLETTERS: Let’s not be gun-shy, says one reader
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyTo the editor, If the writer of “Gun laws” (“Letters to the editor,” Jan. 11) had dug a little deeper, he would discover our Founding Fathers...
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GREENPOINT: The low down on getting high
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyHeroin’s a hell of a drug. It has also been a lifestyle for many New Yorkers and a muse for some, as evident by the anthology “Heroin...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Bonnies top rival Kearney
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyFontbonne Hall’s Cindy Henderson had to slow down to deliver the Bonnies an important win. Henderson failed to convert four...
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Bishop Ford tops All Hallows after slow start
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyBishop Ford broke out after a lethargic first half and earned a comfortable 51–38 win over visiting All Hallows Catholic boys...
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BOROBEAT: Prep rally! School raises $6,000 for charity with dance show
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyStudents at Poly Prep aren’t dancing in the dark — they’re bringing light into the lives of...
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PARK SLOPE: C notes for Slope music school: Amy Winehouse charity gives $25K
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Natalie MusumeciBrooklyn DailyThe Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is singing the praises of the late Amy Winehouse after the Grammy-winning crooner’s parents...
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PARK SLOPE: Sword in the brownstone
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Chuck O’DonnellBrooklyn DailyAn artist has turned the neighborhoods of Park Slope and Bay Ridge into characters in a new graphic novel. Teenager Aliera Carstairs...
View ArticleIT’S ONLY MY OPINION: Once again, Stan’s got the numbers
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Stanley P. GershbeinBrooklyn DailyHere’s another of one of my reader favorites. I call it “America by the Numbers.” The opposition to a ban on handguns is at an...
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WILLIAMSBURG: This will be one Rad party: It’s Gilda’s night in Williamsburg
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyTo help remind us that “it’s always something,” Williamsburg screening room Videology will show a retrospective of comedian Gilda...
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Parkside plaza a possibility, if neighbors will fund maintenance
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eli RosenbergBrooklyn DailyThe city has finally agreed to build a plaza outside the Parkside Avenue Q station — but the neighborhood activists who have long...
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Jeffries: If push comes to shove, I will ‘get Brooklyn’ on Rep. Paul Ryan
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eli RosenbergBrooklyn DailyWhen you’re the new guy trying to get respect in the big House, you go after the craziest person in there. For freshman Rep. Hakeem...
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Xaverian names new football coach
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyXaverian High School has fired its varsity football coach after a 2–7 season and replaced him with a former Clippers assistant. Joe...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Sick player recovers to shoot Loughlin past Xaverian
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyBishop Loughlin guard Mike Williams was feeling so light headed and dizzy that Lions coach Ed Gonzalez sat him to start the third...
View ArticleSPEAK OUT: The Mayor, the Boardwalk, the Radio, and Lou Powsner
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lou PowsnerBrooklyn DailyOnce every week, radio WOR interviews Mayor Mike Bloomberg live on their phone lines, and Lou Powsner is sure to listen, he is, whenever...
View ArticleCONEY ISLAND: Fantasy team! Cyclones to host Te’o-inspired ‘Fictitious Friday’
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyYou too can be Te’o! This summer, the Brooklyn Cyclones invite you — and your imaginary girlfriend — to MCU Park in Coney Island to...
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Parking perk poached: No more free parking for community board chairs
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThe perk stops here. The city is yanking the decades-old parking permits that allowed the 59...
View ArticleCRIME: Cops: Teen attacks man with metal lock
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Daily60th Precinct Coney Island—Brighton Beach—Seagate Locked up Police arrested an 18-year-old who they say beat another man inside an...
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