BCAT (Brooklyn Community Access Television) brings us what promises to be a rousing Reporter Roundtable today at 1 p.m. (also Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. and more showings Thursday and Friday).
In this episode, editor Gersh Kuntman of the Brooklyn Papers is joined by Jotham Sederstrom of the NY Daily News, Sarah Ryley of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Tom Tracy of Courier Life. The panel discusses Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s recent State of the Borough address, Atlantic Yards, Super Tuesday in Brooklyn, the Gowanus canal development and residential parking permits.
More here.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Brooklyn Paper, Daily News, Brooklyn Eagle, Courier Life at Reporter Roundtable
Sunday, February 24, 2008
The Smallest Snowman in Brooklyn
This teeny little feller was seen on Degraw Street in Cobble Hill.
Photo by MK Metz
Snow Mountain in Cadman Park
Where did all the snow go in Cadman Plaza Park?
Kids worked all day Sunday to gather it into this cool Snow Mountain.
This is probably the most snow in one place in Downtown Brooklyn / Brooklyn Heights since the Blizzard of '06.
Photo by MK Metz
Icicles, Brooklyn Supreme Court
As the air warmed Sunday, icicles dripped off branches on Cadman Plaza West, across the street from the courthouse.
Photo by MK Metz
Friday, February 22, 2008
Boerum Hill's 'Toxic School' Head: Saint or Flim-Flam Man?
Something smells at Boerum Hill's infamous "toxic preschool" (the Brooklyn Children's Academy Preschool at 25 Dean Street). The headmaster is either a nice guy who is definitely gonna pay back all those parents real soon -- or a shady flim-flam man.
In Brooklyn Eagle's latest installment of this weird story, the head of the school, Andy Lewis, claims: "We’re processing checks as we speak. The CPA is working on it.”
Meanwhile paperwork obtained by the Eagle shows that Lewis's BBCC (Better Broolyn Community Center, the umbrella non-profit) has affiliated itself "with a seemingly unrelated Long Island-based limited liability company called Blank Lane Farms in Water Mill, N.Y." So while parents were sending unanswered emails and and begging the Borough President for help, Lewis was reorganizing? Transferring assets? What?
A few more quotes:
Leticia James: “I don’t know if the parents will be reimbursed fully."
Parents and teachers, owed thousands of dollars: "“I guess this guy is going to walk clean and free. Must be nice, right? To get away with that much money that you can just walk away with.”
Internal Revenus Service: Get In Touch.
More here.
- Brooklyn's Toxic Preschool: Parents Out of Luck?
- 'Toxic' Preschool Families Get Help From Brooklyn Borough Hall Brooklyn Eagle
- 'Toxic Boerum Hill Preschool to Reopen, Director Says McBrooklyn
- 'Toxic' Brooklyn School to Reopen? Brooklyn Eagle
- More Trouble at 'Toxic' Preschool in Boerum Hill McBrooklyn
- 'Toxic' Preschool Parents Wonder: Where's the Money? Brooklyn Eagle
- Brooklyn Children's Academy Preschool Nightmares A Child Grows in Brooklyn
- Toxic Preschool in Brooklyn? Brooklyn Eagle
- 'Toxic' Preschool in Boerum Hill? McBrooklyn
Snow in Downtown Brooklyn
Top: A hard-working snow-plow man clears up the sidewalks around the courthouses on Adams Street Friday morning.
Middle: Fulton Street.
Bottom: Cadman Plaza Park.
Photos by MK Metz
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Brooklyn Heights Swastika Man Has First Day in Court
Ivaylo Ivanov, the 37-year-old Bulgarian immigrant who went on a swastika spree in Brooklyn Heights AND shot himself in the hand, looked "meek and even gentle" at his court appearance Tuesday, according to the Brooklyn Eagle.
"Dressed in a white-collared shirt, khaki pants and black overcoat, his thin face was clean-shaven, and his graying hair seemed fashionably messed up. He said nothing and only sighed once..."
More here.
- The Tragedy That Was Averted in Brooklyn
- AIDS Researcher Roomie of Brooklyn Heights Bomber Stays Mum
Bergen Flats Repairs
68 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
We have a vague memory of seeing this place in operation more than a decade ago. Do they still fix tires? Do they still put sharp objects in the road halfway up the block?
Photo by MK Metz
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Total Lunar Eclipse From Brooklyn Heights
It will be the last total lunar eclipse until 2010.
Photo by MK Metz and friends
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