Author: Brooklyn Eagle
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Rabbit Maranville: You can’t make this stuff up
Rabbit Maranville is seen in this 1921 file photo. The Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. AP Photo Sometimes a ball player is so interesting, so highly regarded, so off-the-wall, that the writer has to bend the rules a little rather than be patient. This piece about Rabbit…
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US towns plunge into debates about fluoride in water
Residents attend a Durango City Council meeting to speak about the continued fluoridation of the city’s drinking water, Nov. 5, 2024, in Durango, Colo. Christian Burney/The Durango Herald via AP For about 50 years, adding cavity-preventing fluoride to drinking water was a popular public health measure in Yorktown, a leafy town north of New York…
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Annual Wallabout Winter Wonderland set for early December opening
NAVY YARD — At the height of its productivity as a functioning naval repair and shipbuilding facility, as many as 5,000 employees walked into the Brooklyn Navy Yard daily. Today, functioning as a job incubator and entrepreneurial center, the Navy Yard attracts thousands of visitors as consumers. Pop-up markets have become a mainstay and have…
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Premium Content: BPL’s PowerUp! business competition awards over $40k to Brooklyn entrepreneurs
BROOKLYN — Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) awarded over $40,000 to eight Brooklyn-based businesses and entrepreneurs through its 21st annual PowerUp! competition on Thursday, Nov. 14. CBS News New York’s Brooklyn reporter Hannah Kliger hosted the ceremony which honored Noir Yoga of Bedford-Stuyvesant with a $40,000 grand prize presented by Dime Community Bank. PowerUp! 2024 winners.…
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Scholastic Roundup: There’s a real gridiron battle in Brooklyn
It is quite the battle in Public Schools Athletic League 3-A football, with the Tigers of Fort Hamilton High School and Brooklyn Tech’s Engineers both deadlocked with 7-1 league marks. South Shore and Curtis High Schools remain undefeated in 4-A with 8-0 records, with Erasmus Hall close with their 7-1 won-loss record. Transit Tech High…
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Just Eat Takeaway sells Grubhub for $650 million, just 3 years after buying the app for $7.3 billion
he Grubhub app is seen on an iPhone, Feb. 20, 2018. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File European food delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway.com is selling Grubhub for $650 million, a fraction of the billions it spent to buy the U.S. platform just three years ago. Wonder Group, a New York-based food ordering company that touts…
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Fernández gets harsh after loss to champs
Nets first-year coach Jordi Fernández and his players proved no match for the defending NBA champion Celtics at Barclays Center Wednesday. AP Photo by Heather Khalifa Jordi Fernández had been eloquent, insightful, encouraging and resilient in both defending and, at times, criticizing his team through his first 11 games as the Brooklyn Nets’ rookie coach.…
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Long-running fight over development near Botanic Garden may be over
After some revisions, the highly-contested rezoning of the 962-972 Franklin Ave. site in Crown Heights — which would give the OK to Continuum Company’s planned multifamily development — was passed by the City Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises on Tuesday. The proposal will next go to the Committee on Land Use. Under the city’s…
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Nets set for rematch with champion Celtics
Cam Thomas and the Nets will try to shrug off last Friday’s overtime loss in Boston when they host the defending NBA champs in Brooklyn Wednesday. AP Photo by Michael Dwyer Less than a week removed from a heartbreaking overtime loss in Boston, the Brooklyn Nets will try to get a measure of revenge Wednesday…
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Post-Election Healing With Post-It Notes: ‘Subway Therapy’ Returns
An artist recreated a “Subway Therapy” wall in the passageway in the 14th Street passageway between Sixth and Seventh avenues, Nov. 6, 2024. Credit: Jose Martinez/THE CITY For the second time in eight years, a busy Manhattan subway corridor became a safe space for New Yorkers hoping to unburden themselves of Election Day angst. Subway…