Brooklyn News

We just received word that on November 7th and 8th 2009, 60+ of Brooklyn's best artists, animators and graphic novelists will come together to share their work, interact, and take part in panel discussions with industry professionals at King Con Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Lyceum.

From the Brooklyn Paper : The pricetag for a state plan to replace the crumbling Kosciuszko Bridge by 2017 has ballooned to more than a billion bucks to accommodate the eight-year inflation expected during the long-awaited and long-needed replacement.

Five men who were detained in Brooklyn and deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1.26 million settlement with the U.S. government.

Well, now we know why Bloomberg spent all that money. It can now be told that the Bloomberg campaign sharpies always expected a closer race than most people thought it would be and the polls showed.

Nearly 1,000 moderately-priced homes and apartments are now available for purchase in the city through the Housing Partnership Development Corp., a non-profit that works to create new affordable housing with the help of government grants, subsidies and tax credits.

Re-elected City Councilman Charles Barron is still waiting for his chance to fight charges of disorderly conduct for the Sean Bell protests last year, after another pretrial hearing was scheduled Thursday in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

The Yankees victory ticker-tape parade down the "Canyon of Heroes" begins on Friday, 11 a.m. The parade route will start on Broadway at Battery Place and continue northbound to Chambers Street.

A woman was arrested this week on charges of repeatedly harassing and threatening Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Sunshine, who was presiding over her divorce case.

Life has a way of changing planned celebrations. Jean-Anne McKiernan and Richard Sandano were planning a big Brooklyn, N.Y., wedding when they discovered -- very happily -- they were going to have a baby.

On Nov. 5, 1990 Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist, was fatally shot after a speech at a New York hotel.

Brooklyn Federal Judge Tucker Melancon junked George Adde's lawsuit, refusing to believe the 66-year-old man was even on the Andrew J. Barberi.

Every Brooklyn driver knows how bad the entrance ramp to the borough-bound Brooklyn Bridge is, but state officials say they're fixing the problem.

Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads toward a third term bruised by a surprisingly close re-election battle that exposed lingering anger over his reversal on term limits and his prodigious campaign spending.

The implanted "danger" causes the flies to scatter at the first whiff. Scientists at the University of Toronto know how to make fruitflies sexually attractive to flies of both sexes and to different fly species - by removing the specific hydrocarbon brain cells that produce the pheromones thought to attract sex-specific mates.

" Two Brooklyn Supreme Court justices presided from a makeshift bench at the Brooklyn Board of Elections office yesterday, where they were handling voting matters and helping resolve problems like when poll workers submit special ballots.

An angry driver alleged shot another motorist, then attempted to escape in a UPS truck.

All five of the New York City borough presidents have been re-elected. The incumbents were largely favored to win Tuesday's election.

You are not logged in. Register now . November 3, 2009 by Brooklyn Eagle , published online 11-03-2009 A woman who is a manager at Macya TMs on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn was run over and killed by a state correction officer on his way to work in Sing Sing Tuesday, police said.

Bill Thompson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg hit the polls Tuesday morning to vote.

Over the last three months, the following donated items have made their way from the IKEA store in Red Hook to the YWCA of Brooklyn in Boerum Hill: - 15 complete beds; - Six boxes and eight large plastic bags full of bedding, comforters, pillows and curtains; and - Six boxes of kitchenware, including dishes, cutlery and pots and pans.