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
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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/
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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.
Bensonhurst
Grandma Vita Maniscalco (Courtesy of Victoria Maniscalco)Bensonhurst mourns the loss of Grandma (Vita) Maniscalco of Vic’s Pizzeria [http://www.vicspizzabrooklyn.com/] (288 Kings Highway), a neighborhood staple. Vita and her husband Vic emigrated to New York City from Sciacca, Sicily with their two daughters in 1959, and moved
Kids & Family
Image via 72nd Precinct [https://twitter.com/NYPD72Pct/status/722113688241627136].It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Michael Moussa, a young teen who has worked with the 72nd Precinct’s NYPD Explorer Program, passed away this Sunday, April 17, after a fight with a thalassemia,
Neighbors
Michael Lvovsky training in Thailand. (Photo: Mike Beastmode Lvovsky [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153009527814028&set=pb.818769027.-2207520000.1456444131.&type=3&theater] / Facebook)By Alexandra Semenova Brighton resident Michael Lvovsky — beloved fitness coach and seasoned Mixed Martial Arts fighter who won his first professional
Ghostbusters
Michael Gross, center, with the cast of ‘Ghostbusters.’ (Image via Pratt Institute [https://www.instagram.com/p/-O-tzeINuV/?taken-by=prattinstitute].)A fond farewell is in order for Michael Curtiss Gross, 70, the director, producer, artist, and graphic designer who is perhaps most well known as art director at National Lampoon
emmons avenue
Beverly Rotter. (Photo: Beverly Rotter [https://www.facebook.com/beverly.rotter/photos] / Facebook)Beverly Rotter, a longtime crusader for those infected with HIV/AIDS and a beloved member of the Sheepshead Bay community, passed away at a local hospital on Wednesday, October 7. She was 82. The cause of death
Magnus Mukoro
Photo via Young Rock Soccer [https://instagram.com/p/2EyncgEt60/]Farewell, Magnus. Magnus Mukoro, the beloved soccer coach who co-founded Young Rock Soccer Academy [http://www.youngrocksoccer.org] in 2005, passed away on July 29 after falling into a coma following a swimming accident a few days prior. His sudden
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Greta Greene. Photo courtesy of the Greene familyFollowing the devastating death of 2-year-old neighbor Greta Greene [/crime/community-mourns-death-of-2-year-old-neighbor-greta-greene-who-was-hit-by-falling-bricks-on-upper-west-side] , who lived with her parents, Stacy and Jayson Greene, in Kensington, just across the border from Ditmas Park, we’ve been flooded with emails from neighbors who want to know how they
bensonhurst natives
Source: Youtube/cunytv75Glenn Markman, a commercial broker with clients like Spike Lee and the NBA, died at the age of 52 yesterday after a battle with cancer. During his 28 years in brokerage, the Bensonhurst native succeeded in transforming his home borough. After joining the prestigious Cushman & Wakefield firm