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Rockaway mother burned toddler: DA

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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 12:35 p.m.

A Rockaway Park mother was charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly submerging her 3-year-old son in scalding hot bath water and causing him to suffer second-degree burns, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.Regina Cooper, 30, of 112-34 Rockaway Beach Blvd. in Rockaway Park ...

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On This Day in History: August 21 Brooklyn Shoot-’Em-Up

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Published Aug. 20, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

On August 21, 1934, one of Brooklyn’s biggest and most sensational holdups was reported on a front page EXTRA in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ... A huge headline read: “GUNMEN GET $427,000 IN BATH BEACH RAID. EXTRA: Armored Truck In Machine ...

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FROM THE BROOKLYN AERIEAugust 12, 2009

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Published Aug. 11, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

A Weekly Column of Trivia and Observations ... By David Ansel Weiss ... (cumb3@aol.com) ... Brooklyn saw its first elevated train line in 1885. It ran from the Brooklyn Bridge to Broadway ... * * * ... One of the features of the now-gone Brighton Bath, Beach and Racquet Club was that its lifeguards — unusual for the time — were women ...

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Regina Pacis and the Case of the Missing Crowns

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Published Aug. 5, 2009 at 2:37 p.m.

In the midst of World War II, the parishioners of St. Rosalia's Church in Borough Park made a pledge: if the war came to an end, they would construct "a lasting memorial to the ideal of peace." By 1948 ground was broken for one the greatest churches in Brooklyn, a $1,000,000 devotion to the Queen of Peace - Regina Pacis ... Regina Pacis Votive Shrine, at 65th Street and 12th Avenue, was (and still is) a model of Italian Renaissance design. It was a two-story building with 1,500 seats on

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And from the mailbag

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Published June 25, 2009 at 4:25 p.m.

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... The Brooklyn Paper ... To the editor, ... Ralph Waldo Emerson railed against “foolish consistency.” Surely he had even less respect for foolish inconsistency ... A newspaper’s editorial opinion means nothing if it is inconsistent. In your editorial (“Just do it,” June 11), The Brooklyn Paper seems to be priding itself on some imagined consistency when it advocates for a taxpayer-funded arena on top of private property, city streets and the

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And from the regular mailbag

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Published June 18, 2009 at 3:03 p.m.

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... The Brooklyn Paper ... To the editor, ... Ralph Waldo Emerson railed against “foolish consistency.” Surely he had even less respect for foolish inconsistency.A newspaper’s editorial opinion means nothing if it is inconsistent. In last week’s editorial (“Just do it,” June 11), The Brooklyn Paper seems to be priding itself on some imagined consistency when it advocates for a taxpayer-funded arena on top of private property, city streets and the

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On This Day in History: June 12 A High School Diploma at Last

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Published June 11, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

Vic Damone was born Vito Farinola on June 12, 1928, in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn. He attended P.S. 163 and Lafayette High School. He sang in the choir of St. Finbar’s church in Bensonhurst as a teenager. When Damone was 16, his father, Rocco Farinola, an electrician, was seriously injured at work. To ...

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Values in Bath Beach

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Published April 28, 2009 at 1:21 a.m.

Living Bath Beach, with its salty breezes and quiet streets, is like living in a seaside community. If this is your home, or you want to move there, here are some cheap neighborhood staples ...

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