Assault in Vinegar Hill and More Brooklyn Briefs

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Published Aug. 30, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

- Fire devastates row of businesses on Flatbush Ave. early Sunday morning.  NY Daily News ... - New data suggest the summer of 2010 is the hottest on record.  Huff Post  ... - That's low: A guy broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment in Sunset Park and broke her turtle tank.  Brooklyn Eagle  ... - Stabbed cabbie worries about feeding his family.  NY Magazine ... - A Brooklyn woman was caught on surveillance video sneaking under a light pole after it fell down - then claiming it

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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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EditorialTake DNA Upon Arrest

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

Re: “DNA: The 21st Century Fingerprint,” published June 2 in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ... New York’s civil liberties advocates are manning the barricades in their last-ditch battle against expanding the state’s DNA database. DNA’s opponents are fighting to stop ...

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Library Layoffs May Hit Brooklynology.

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Published June 9, 2010 at 9:15 a.m.

Many of you may know that New York City's three library systems are currently under threat of crippling budget cuts--so crippling, in fact, that about a third of the library's workforce received provisional pink slips last week, pending the finalization of budget negotiations.  Three of the Brooklyn Collection's staff are under the gun, and two of them -- Olivia and Ben--are Brooklynology bloggers. So here today are three of the actual faces of the budget cuts.  They represent 50% of the

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Brooklyn Judge Balter Honored by Trial Lawyers at Golf Outing

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

By Samuel Newhouse ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle ... LONG ISLAND — Despite forecasts of rainy weather, the sun shone down at Garden City Country Club as jurists and legal figures from Brooklyn, Manhattan and across county lines came together for a day of golf, tennis and collegiality ... After the Brooklyn-Manhattan Trial Lawyers Association’s 73rd Annual Golf & Tennis Outing tournaments ...

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Old Lamp Post Down In Columbus Park, Brooklyn

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Published June 10, 2010 at 1:23 a.m.
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 We came across this downed lamp post in Brooklyn's Columbus Park near the Supreme Court building yesterday. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, a delivery truck related to the construction at 360 Adams Street knocked it down -- and the driver tried to flee the scene ... The lamp post and several others in the area are the double-headed type and appear to be quite old. If you click on the photo and blow it up, you'll see years worth of rust on the bottom and inside the lamp post. Anyone know when

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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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Brooklyn BroadsideThe Future of Fourth Avenue

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

By Dennis Holt ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle ... The concept of a complete overhaul of all 6.2 miles of Fourth Avenue from Flatbush Avenue to Fort Hamilton is both breathtaking and mind-boggling. And those thinking about it are calling it a “corridor,” no less ... A lot of streets have been and are being overhauled, but nothing has ever been attempted ...

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Little Known Brooklyn Residents: Dr. Ida Mellen

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Published June 8, 2010 at 2:02 p.m.

In the first half of the 20th century, Brooklyn was home to one of the world's most respected authorities on the ailments of fish. Dr. Ida Mellen, lived most of her life in the borough of Brooklyn, working for many years as chief aquarist and ichthyologist at the New York Aquarium ... Dr. Ida Mellen ... The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that during Dr. Mellen's time at the New York Aquarium, she "nursed penguins with bronchitis, turtles with tumors, and alligators with fungused snouts." Her

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Found in the Morgue: Five Local Snake Stories

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Published June 14, 2010 at 10:05 a.m.

While searching in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle morgue, I came across the following photo, which spurred a hunt for local snake stories ... Reverend Dr. Hugo E. Meyer ... Reverend Dr. Hugo E. Meyer, Pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Woodhaven, Queens, had a long-standing pastime of hunting snakes. He collected snakes for his personal specimen collection, which he housed in hundreds of jars in the cellar of his Ozone Park home. His capture method involved throwing himself at the snake and "just

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