BOROBEAT: LIU’s graduation day is a slam-dunk at Barclays Center
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyBarclays Center erupted with graduation fever as the Class of 2013 from Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus celebrated its big...
View ArticleCONEY ISLAND: Nowhere to go! Coney bathrooms won’t be ready for Memorial Day
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyThe beach will be ready — but the bathrooms won’t! The city said its new modular Boardwalk comfort stations won’t be ready in time...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: St. Edmund battles to Brooklyn-Queens ‘A’ softball crown
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Mike MortonBrooklyn DailySt. Edmund Prep softball coach Rowena Motylewski has learned that her team is resilient in pressure situations, and it didn’t take long...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Serrantino’s walk-off blast delivers Fontbonne Hall...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyEveryone in the Fontbonne Hall dugout knew what Maria Serrantino was going to do when she stepped to plate in the bottom of the...
View ArticleSTANDING O: Standing O salutes budding scribes at Poly Prep
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyDyker Heights Standing O is doffing its hat to Poly Prep Country Day School students Ruby Bilger and Zachary Kimmel, (no relation to...
View ArticleSTANDING O: Xaverian students are in a class of their own
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBay Ridge It was a milestone moment for Xaverian High School students this past March, when 32 history-loving teens handed in their...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: Destroyed a week before opening, Jumpin’ Bean finally opens
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyIt’s fiesta time for a survivor of Hurricane Sandy! Destroyed by the Storm of Century a week before its originally scheduled debut,...
View ArticleSTANDING O: Toques off to the Culinary Scholars
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBorough Wide Bon appetit! Three hot-cross buns and as many blue medals to the city high school winners of the Careers through...
View ArticleBOROBEAT: You can build it — Boardwalk tour teaches kids about construction...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyMeet the builders of tomorrow! Parks Department Chief Engineer John Natoli led a class from PS 288 in Coney Island on a tour of the...
View ArticleBOROBEAT: Vikings Invade Bay Ridge!
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyGray skies can’t stop the people of the midnight sun! The annual Viking Fest and the Norwegian...
View ArticleDon’t stop the music: Gowanus party invites Robyn fans to get weird
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Jaime LutzBrooklyn DailyShe’s the Swedish pop star you didn’t know you missed. Call your girlfriend, because it’s time for a Brooklyn shindig where dance hall...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: Once agian, homeless find a home under Belt Parkway,...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyYou can call it a migratory habit. There are a few things you can count on with the coming of summer: the Kings County Fair hits...
View ArticlePARK SLOPE: Vendors: Googa cancellation cost us moolah
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Natalie MusumeciBrooklyn DailyMother Nature wiped out the final day of the controversial Great GoogaMooga festival in...
View ArticleMARINE PARK: Pepper spay unleased at Marine Park school
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyA Marine Park junior high school was evacuated and up to 25 were injured when four girls unleashed a cloud of pepper spray inside a...
View ArticleA BRITISHER’S VIEW: Shavana: Scandal is the poison of choice for the...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyWhy is Denier-in-Chief Barack Obama still president, and why is his scandal-scarred administration still around? The stakes are high...
View ArticleWILLIAMSBURG: Souping up business: Hipster bringing the bacon to Brooklyn
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyThis beardo’s mason jar is bubbling over. Not content to bring bacon soup only to the people of Williamsburg, Shane McGarvey has...
View ArticleWILLIAMSBURG: Chain, chain, chain: Bike Fetish day returns
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyThey specialize in chains and rubber. People who love bicycles are gathering once again at the Williamsburg institution City...
View ArticlePARK SLOPE: Paved Brooklyn could escape cicada ‘swarmaggedon’
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Jaime LutzBrooklyn DailyThe cicadas are coming — or are they? The mighty “swarmaggedon” — the oft-reported cicada orgy coming to the northeast for the first time...
View ArticleCANARSIE: National parks to demolish former Canarsie Pier eatery
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyIt’s pier waste. The top brass at the Gateway National Parks and Recreation Area can’t find anyone interested in filling the long-vacant...
View ArticleBIG SCREECHER: Carmine goes where no Carmine has gone before
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Carmine Santa MariaBrooklyn DailyI’m madder than the Professor on “Gilligan’s Island” when the coconut he turned into a radio didn’t work because Gilligan was off...
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