community Dyker Heights Street Could Be Renamed After Slain Cop Officer David Guttenberg’s plaque in the 68th Precinct. (Photo via Durante)A small memorial display is the first thing people see when they enter the lobby of the 68th Precinct, which serves Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Fort Hamilton. There, plaques of three fallen brothers in uniform and their
Arts & Culture Bay Ridge Rocks: The Treasure-Hunting Trend Hitting South Brooklyn Three-year-old Eli Kaufman found a yellow Angry Bird rock outside his home in Bay Ridge. (Photo via Kacey Kaufman)Three-year-old Eli Kaufman’s day was made when he spotted a rock, with his mother Kacey’s help, outside their limestone home on February 21. The palm-sized, triangular-shaped rock caught his
Business 40 Years Later, Stained Glass Master Peter Romano Still Brightening Up Park Slope Peter Romano at work. (Photo by Erin DeGregorio / BKLYNER)After working at his stained glass window business for the last 40 years in Park Slope, owner Peter Romano refuses to have the word “retirement” as part of both his vocabulary and future plans. At 72, he always busy because he