Arts & Culture
RED HOOK – Friends of Red Hook Slim, a beloved local blues harpist, reached out to Bklyner to share the news of his recent death. Red Hook Slim (Photo courtesy of Dale Fuller)Red Hook Slim, or Louis Raiola, passed away unexpectedly late last week, according to Edna Hoover who met
community
Local officials are paying tribute to Alan Fleishman, a longtime political organizer and LGBTQ activist who passed away earlier this week. Alan Fleishman via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/alan.fleishman]Fleishman, 62, passed away on Tuesday, August 27 after battling cancer for five-years, Gay City News [https://www.gaycitynews.
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE – Former District Leader Kevin Peter Carroll, 33, of Community Board 10, was found dead at home on June 3rd. In 2010, at age 24, Carroll made history as the youngest state committeeman ever elected in Brooklyn. Carroll was a former staffer for tenured Council Member Steven Levin, and
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By Michael Kawochka GREENPOINT – Greenpoint centenarian “Big Helen” Sieczkowski passed away January 2, 2019. She was the oldest living person on Jewel Street. Widow to Stanley “Chick” Sieczkowski, sister of the late Regina Klembicki, she is survived by her little sister Irene Grecula (age 99); daughter Alicia Kawochka, son Thomas;
Neighbors
PARK SLOPE – Florence Leopoldi, the matriarch of 5th Avenue’s family-owned Leopoldi Hardware [https://ww3.truevalue.com/leopoldi/Home.aspx], passed away on December 19. She was 83 years old. Message posted on window of Leopoldi Hardware, 415 5th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)“She had congestive heart failure about
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Brooklyn — New York State Supreme Court Justice William C. Thompson Sr., the first African American state senator from Brooklyn died December 24, 2018. He was 94. Thompson served for 20 years on the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court [http://www.courts.state.ny.us/history/legal-history-new-york/history-legal-bench-appellate-02.
North Western Brooklyn
Jason (aka Jay) Melvin Santiago Laracuente – family photo.Below obituary was submitted by the family: PARK SLOPE – Jason (aka Jay) Melvin Santiago Laracuente, passed away in Brooklyn on Sunday, August 26th 2018, aged 36. We will celebrate his life on Saturday, September 1st, 2018 at Las Rosas Funeral Home [https:
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By Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10095118]Martin Landau, an Academy-winning actor and old school Brooklynite, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 89. He died of “unexpected complications,” his publicist said in a statement. Landau was a brilliant actor known
Neighbors
New York Daily News Front Page on January 26, 2017Mary Tyler Moore died [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html] yesterday. She was 80. We lost both an amazing actress and a staunch Brooklynite, but don’t take our word for it. When there was a
Bensonhurst
Photo posted by John Cicero in Southern Brooklyn ScrapbookBensonhurst lost a native, Bay Ridge lost a neighbor, and Brooklyn lost a former Borough President this month when Sebastian Leone passed away at 91 on Monday, November 14. Leone was elected to interim Borough President [http://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/
Neighbors
Marie Coleman / Personal ArchivesMarie Coleman was 84 years old. March 11, 1932 to November 18, 2016. She is survived by 4 of her 5 children. Marie was a resident of the Sunset Park/Bay Ridge area over 60 years. She was involved with many of the local community organizations. She
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(Photo via Jewish Daily Forward [https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynBreakingNews/photos/a.10152220115617280.1073741825.269037602279/10154837144167280/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Yaffa Eliach, Holocaust survivor, photographer, historian, and Brooklyn College Professor, died Tuesday at age 79, reports the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/nyregion/yaffa-eliach-died-holocaust-memorial-museum.