BAY RIDGE: Help find Irwin, the stolen raccoon lawn ornament!

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Published June 10, 2010 at 9:04 a.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Andy Campbell ... The Brooklyn Paper ... It’s a crime of the most rabid proportions — someone stole Irwin the raccoon, a lawn ornament that’s served as one Bay Ridge resident’s own talisman for three years! ... Now Alicia Boros and her boyfriend are on a coon hunt near their 88th Street home that hasn’t turned up any results since Irwin went missing in April ... “It’s not common for people to touch the garden area [by my doorstep],”

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‘Support Our Troops’ Rally

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Published June 13, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

This past Sunday at 2 p.m. at John Paul Jones Park in Bay Ridge, State Sen. Marty Golden held his annual Support Our Troops Rally. Here, he is seen with Fort Hamilton Col. Stephen Smith, Command Sgt. Major Sylvia Lauglin and Sgt. First Class Mike Poirier from Ft. Hamilton High School on the dais during the National Anthem ... * * * ... Questions? Comments? Sound off to the Editor———————— ... © Brooklyn Daily Eagle 2010All materials posted on BrooklynEagle.com are protected by

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Born To Be a Brooklyn Judge, Justice Schneier Has Skills for Settling

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Published June 13, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

Path to the Brooklyn Bench Began With a 1940s Bicycle Crash ... By Samuel Newhouse ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle ... ADAMS STREET — Sitting in the front row of the courtroom was a nervous and unsettled plaintiff. She was an elderly woman who had been in an automobile accident on Shore Road in Bay Ridge two years previous, but the ...

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BAY RIDGE: Pharmacy robbed by mullet- and gun-wielding thief

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Published June 13, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Meet a one man prescription for trouble ... A mullet-sporting gunman is being sought for raiding a Bay Ridge pharmacy at gunpoint on June 8 — and then apologizing for his actions ... Police said the rail-thin renegade entered the A and V Pharmacy on Fourth Avenue between 84th and 85th streets at 7 pm with a bandanna over his nose and mouth. He flashed a pistol and gave the local alchemist a note ordering him to

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BOOKS: New page for Dyker Heights thanks to 13th Ave. bookstore

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Published June 7, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Meredith Deliso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Dyker Heights residents finally have a bookstore to call their own ... Last weekend, Tatiana Nicoli celebrated the grand opening of Boulevard Books, her independent shop located in the heart of Dyker Heights on 13th Avenue — and it was such a big deal that the borough president even showed up to cut the ribbon ... “We’ve never had a bookstore all the years I’ve been here,” said Nicoli. “And we need

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BAY RIDGE: Stabbing outside club!

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Published June 1, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... Community Newspaper Group ... Club carnage ... Two men were stabbed near Club F1 on 65th Street after a night of partying on May 30 ... The victims, both 21, said that they had just left the nightspot at 4 am and clashed with another club hopper when they reached Eighth Avenue ... The stranger pulled out a knife and attacked, leaving one of the victims with cuts to his head, neck and shoulder. His companion sustained a deep cut to the

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BAY RIDGE: Shooting in Owls Head Park!

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Published June 3, 2010 at 7:25 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... The Brooklyn Paper ... A racially charged teen rumble in Bay Ridge’s bucolic Owls Head Park ended with gunfire on Wednesday, leaving one teen critically injured ... Police said blood was spilled after a group of Hispanic youths and some Middle Eastern teens threw down at around 6:45 pm ... The Hispanic teens were hanging out near the basketball courts on the Colonial Road side of the park near 67th Street when the Middle Eastern teens

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COMMITTEMAN CONFRONTATION: Ridge district leader candidates in new fight over, well, democracy!

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Published June 1, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Helen Klein ... for The Brooklyn Paper ... The Bay Ridge district leader war was waged on a new front this week as 18-year incumbent Ralph Perfetto threatened to knock his insurgent challenger off the ballot if the newcomer makes good on his threat to run a slate of opposition candidates for the lowest-level party positions ... Perfetto and district leader challenger Kevin Peter Carroll had said that they would not challenge each other’s nominating

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EVENT: Your guide to Memorial Day parades

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Published May 29, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... The Brooklyn Paper ... If you want a traditional Memorial Day, hit one of the four parades around town on Sunday and Monday: ... Today ... Greenpoint ... 9 am ... Start: Manhattan Avenue and Driggs Avenue ... Monday ... Canarsie ... 11:30 am ... Start: 92nd Street and Conklin Avenue ... Gerritsen Beach ... 10 am ... Start: Gerritsen Avenue and Whitney Avenue ... Bay Ridge ... 11 am ... Start: 87th Street and Third Avenue ... Comment on this story ...

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BAY RIDGE: Republicans coalesce around Bay Ridgite Allegretti

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Published May 31, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Helen Klein ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Staten Island’s Republican Party has finally settled on a candidate — and it’s the guy from Brooklyn! ... One day after the county party organization was snubbed in its effort to draft disgraced former Rep. Vito Fossella to face Rep. Mike McMahon (D–Bay Ridge), party members nominated Bay Ridgite Michael Allegretti to be the standardbearer ... Allegretti — who is battling Michael Grimm for the right to

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