The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s (BCM) 2015 Spring Gala: Music Moves, held on Tuesday, April 21 at the Brooklyn Museum, raised $250,000 to support the Conservatory’s programming goals for 2015, according to a BCM spokesperson. The funds raised at the gala will provide music education for 5,000 low-income students from BCM’s Music Partners Programs in … Read More →
DUMBO residents and workers have become increasingly alarmed about a gas leak on Jay Street that has been venting from street grates for months. The New York City Fire Department has been called to 51 Jay St. nine times over the past year, FDNY spokesperson Frank Dwyer told theBrooklyn Eagle on Wednesday. “I was in … Read More →
Brooklyn’s federal courthouse continued to celebrate its 150th anniversary when it opened its latest exhibit in the Charles P. Sifton Gallery, “The Eastern District in the Headlines,” with a reception Tuesday afternoon. The exhibit, which is the 16th in the court gallery’s history, displays headlines and newspaper clippings of some of the courthouse’s most … Read More →
After Waterfront Dinner, Warm Greetings, FOK (Friends of Karen) Bussed To Mother Ship By Kathryn Cardin and Sam Howe Brooklyn Daily Eagle For the Brooklyn Academy of Music, led by Executive Producer Joseph Melillo, the gala honoring Karen Brooks Hopkins Tuesday night was an “all hands on deck” affair. Every department, from Development and Marketing to Stage … Read More →
SUNY’s Carone: Doc group ‘discredited’ The state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in Brooklyn Heights on Friday dismissed the appeal of a doctors group seeking to block the sale of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) to a developer. The Concerned Physicians of LICH had hoped to overturn the State University of New York’s (SUNY) decision to … Read More →
The federal prosecutor post vacated by Attorney General Loretta Lynch has been filled by her chief assistant. Kelly Currie was named on Monday as acting U.S. attorney in Brooklyn. Currie was a prosecutor in the Brooklyn office for a decade. He returned in November after four years in private practice. He’s a graduate of the University of Virginia School of … Read More →
Will be in conversation with Gloria Steinem on June 4 The Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center First Awards honors women who’ve made outstanding contributions in their fields. This year’s surprise honoree is … (drumroll here): Miss Piggy. The Muppets character joins a prestigious list of past recipients. They include theater director Julie Taymor, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra … Read More →
BBP Defends Alterations Adamantly No more hand-made flyers and five dollar bills gathered in a passed hat. Brooklyn Heights residents working to save the view of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Promenade are rolling out a campaign to raise serious money to fight what they say is an oversized development at Pier 1 in Brooklyn … Read More →
Save the View Now initiates lawsuit; BBP calls group’s claims ‘spurious’ The preservationist group Save the View Now announced on Thursday that a Brooklyn judge has issued a partial Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on the Pierhouse development at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, pending the outcome of a lawsuit the group filed on Tuesday. … Read More →