Category: <span>Brooklyn Life</span>

Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani endorsed Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his bid for reelection at a Sunday morning breakfast hosted by the Boro Park Jewish Community Council, in honor of Holocaust survivors.

By Daniel Roberts Sunday afternoon. The subway ride to South Brooklyn is a quiet one. People sleep or try to read. But on this Sunday, the D-line is undergoing renovation. At the Prospect Avenue stop, the conductor makes a garbled announcement about this becoming an R-train. Passengers snap up from their stupor and look surprised,...

If you’re interested in the view from Red Hook, check out today’s Here is Brooklyn piece by Miranda Lin.

"Ball four! Take your base," the umpire barked in a husky voice. The Latina batter in an oversized NYPD Commissioner's Baseball Tournament t-shirt sauntered over to first as her teammates cheered and whistled from the sidelines. "Great eye, Tina, way to be patient!" She had not swung once.

The minute Olsen Hill saw the uniforms at his door, he knew. He had served in the military. No words were necessary. His son, Kevin O. Hill, was dead. He was a 23-year-old soldier from Brooklyn deployed in Afghanistan.

A fisherman rescues a Brooklyn mom and her two daughters from drowning, after her car plunged into the water in Sheepshead Bay.

A scene from Marcus Garvey Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Angels and Accordions was performed in Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights this past Saturday.

“Here is Brooklyn” is a compilation of observations in and around the borough. Starting this fall, every weekday we will bring you a Brooklyn moment, captured in words from the worlds and neighborhoods around you. Be sure to check back each day for a new slice of life from the neighborhoods you know so well....