Category: <span>Brooklyn Life</span>

By Leah Finnegan The phalanx of Tupperware-clad students crowded around the microwave in Brooklyn College’s cafeteria either doesn’t notice or tries to ignore what’s scrawled on the wall above the machine, with an arrow pointing downward: “It’s very nasty.” The cafeteria is technically titled the Metropolitan Food Café, and is decorated in shades of the...

A developer’s plan to build a twin-towered apartment complex in Greenpoint is raising some eyebrows.

The candidates for New York City Mayor delivered last-minute appeals to voters on Sunday. At a catering hall in Bedford-Stuyvesant Comptroller William Thompson urged New Yorkers to reject an incumbent “who thinks he’s above democracy.” Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked for a third term to “keep making progress.”

We all worry about our loved ones, especially in dire circumstances. Here's a scene from Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in East Flatbush.

By Jack Mirkinson Judge Neil Firetog, a man who does not suffer fools gladly, was presiding over a homicide case one Thursday morning at the Kings County Criminal Court on Jay Street when the prosecutor in the case, Mr. Hale, revealed that the defense attorney, Mr. Ward, had committed a rather large lawyerly error. One...

House of ghouls, somewhere in the depths of Greenpoint. Happy Halloween, Brooklyn!

By Sarah Portlock Deloris Gillespie wants one minute to talk, just one minute. But it’s 9 pm on the dot and it’s time to end the two-hour community meeting, and she has already had her turn to speak. Earlier, Gillespie, an older black woman, railed about the gentrifying masses to her Prospect Heights neighborhood who,...

Before the Yankees ever faced off against the Phillies, it was the Atlantics of Brooklyn versus the Athletics of Philadelphia in this lithograph of the second championship game in 1866. For more photos of the New York-Philadelphia baseball rivalry click here.

By Terry Baynes She was hard to miss, sitting on the bench in front of the New York State Supreme Court on Court Street.  She crooned along to the gospel music coming from the round portable stereo player in the seat next to her.  A reusable plastic grocery back stood by her feet.  On her...