This photo, taken Tuesday, shows the damage Green-Wood Cemetery sustained after this weekend’s storm, said to have been “one of the worst in recent years,” according to Phil Abrahamson, spokesperson for the Parks Department. {read more} Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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The Brooklyn Public Library is going the way of high-tech fund-raising, similar to that used to fund Haitian earthquake victims. “Support Our Shelves” will accept tax-deductible donations of $10 via text messages at “books” 50555; the donation charged to the donor’s cellphone bill.
“It should make a difference on two fronts,” said Jason Carey, a library [...]
Nothing Like the Real Thing
This bike-guarding “pooch” didn’t pass a reality check outside the Clark Pet Shop, 57 Clark St., Brooklyn Heights, this past weekend. Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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Galapagos Arts Space Presents “‘Swingin’ At Jack’s’”
BROOKLYN — The year is 1947 and Jack’s gin joint is the hottest place in town. The saucy French maitre-d orders you to take your seat as the flirty cigarette girls try to sell you a jujubee along with your cigarette. {read more} Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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It’s always been suspected that many New Yorkers were somewhat odd. Now there may be justification for these suspicions: not only that many New Yorkers are somewhat odd…some may be from another planet. We may have reached our close encounters of the third kind in the form of our next door neighbor or merely in [...]
[Letter]:
My father and I have been doing research over the past few months on an old Brooklyn fire badge that was recovered by a relic hunter near Port Hudson, Louisiana, and this research has led me to you. I acquired this badge and was able to identify the owner via a badge [...]
Schoolchildren who had the day off along with Brooklynites of every age took to Prospect Park to enjoy the snowy weather on Wednesday.
Very picturesque…until the inevitable slush and ice and resulting misfortune set in. NYC received about 12-inches of snow and, even as I write, the storm is tapering off and moving on.
In our [...]
Hipsters, that urbane set of groovy renegades, may be facing a sudden and untimely extinction. The New York Press questions if the cool and aloof look of hipsters may be out and a new look may be in…that of “helpsters.”
The peculiar neologism, helpsters, defines an up-and-coming, trendsetting breed combining the cool of hipsters with a [...]
An article in the Brooklyn Eagle of January 26, 1901 reported that police officials believed that “professional mendicancy” was responsible for an upsurge of beggars in New York City. In sync with the xenophobic mood of the time, city officials blamed the “wholesale immigration of professional mendicants [italics mine] from Europe” for a new, assertively [...]
The world has seen its share of circus strongmen suddenly appear and just as suddenly disappear. Ordinary human beings whose superhuman abilities to lift tremendous weights or break infrangible objects made them sensational if temporal celebrities in the eyes of fascinated crowds. Coney Island was once America’s primary showplace for such performers possessed with herculean [...]
Things aren’t going too well for the swan community gracefully residing in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Just last summer, a turf war broke out between two pairs of swans living at opposite ends of the park. After several weeks of ruffled feathers and spirited rumbles, the war ended as suddenly as it had begun when the [...]
There is a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the tree of Heaven. No matter where its seeds fall, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree [...]
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