Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Mathew A. Sciarrino Jr. ruled that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office may subpoena the “tweets” of an Occupy Wall Street protestor who was arrested for disorderly conduct on the Brooklyn Bridge last October. Despite the protests of the defendent, Malcolm Harris, the judge decided that it was not unreasonable for prosecutors…
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NYU Branching Out to Brooklyn
At a well-attended press-conference on Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg discussed the city’s plans to bring a high-tech campus to Downtown Brooklyn on the site of the former headquarters of the New York City Transit Authority, 370 Jay Street. New York University’s new Center for Urban Sciences and Progress (CUSP) will be moving in as soon…
Gowanus County Fair Brings Best of Brooklyn to the Public Eye
The Fourth Annual Spring Craft Market, better known as the Gowanus County Fair, will be held at the Brooklyn Lyceum on Saturday and Sunday, May 5th and 6th from 11am to 6pm. The fair is always a great place to explore the special culture of Brooklyn with the perfect mix of arts, music, crafts, theater…
Brooklyn Art Collective Oxheart Holding First Event
Oxheart is a Brooklyn-based art collective which supports the work of creative artists of every variety, including musicians, photographers, writers, designers, visual artists and others. For two evenings on Friday and Saturday June 15th and 16th Oxheart will hold their first-ever event ‘Letter Red,’ at 8pm on both nights. The public is invited to wear…
Blake Eskin Starting Petition to Bring Chinese Food to Prospect Heights
There are a lot of causes out there worth fighting for, and there is certainly no shortage of on-line petitions for or against many valuable ideas and policies. But let’s get real for a minute; most of these issues are really someone else’s problems, and don’t usually have all that much to do with how…
Education Fund Established for Children of Firefighter Who Gave All
In honor and memory of the firefighter who died in the line of duty on Monday a fund has been established which will help to insure that the children of Lieutenant Richard A. Nappi will receive a proper education. The scholarship fund was created at the request of the officers and members of Engine 237,…
Cash Mob Brooklyn Brings Boost to Local Business
We are all familiar (perhaps a bit too familiar) with lip dubs and flash mobs, where regular people, and sometimes not such regular people, are willing to make fools of themselves promoting some cause, product or business while pretending to either sing the latest hot music video, or dancing awkwardly to same. Now the latest…
Famed Coney Island Attraction Eldorado Bumper Cars Returning This Summer
Joe Sitt, the local developer who recently purchased the building on Surf Avenue in Coney Island which houses the Eldorado Auto Scooters and Arcade announced that visitors this summer will still be able to take a spin on the legendary Coney Island attraction. Sitt explained that since his plans to turn that particular parcel of…
Brooklyn Museum Showing Works of Eminent Ceramicist Edward Lycett
Edward Lycett was a prominent English artisan of the late 19th-century whose expertise at creating beautiful ceramic pieces led him to become the creative director of the exclusive Faience Manufacturing Co. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Lycett’s works were sold by merchants of luxury home décor; bought by wealthy collectors of fine pottery; and even made their…
New York Libraries Updating for the 21st Century
The New York, Brooklyn and Queens public libraries are changing the focal point of the institution away from books and towards meeting what many see as more the more relevant needs of the communities which they serve. President of the Brooklyn Public Library, Linda Johnson explained: “Any new library would not be a repository of…
