obituary

May
22
How To Honor The Memory Of 2-Year-Old Neighbor Greta Greene, ‘A Bright Light To All Who Knew Her’

How To Honor The Memory Of 2-Year-Old Neighbor Greta Greene, ‘A Bright Light To All Who Knew Her’

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
2 min read
Nov
05

Glenn Markman, Commercial Broker With Bensonhurst Roots, Dies at 52

Source: Youtube/cunytv75Glenn Markman, a commercial broker with clients like Spike Lee and the NBA, died at the age of
1 min read
Apr
17
Tragic End To South Slope Dog’s Loving Rescue

Tragic End To South Slope Dog’s Loving Rescue

Just days after reporting the wondrous news of Dottie’s adoption [/blog/animals/abandoned-south-slope-dog-finds-her-forever-home], we’re devastated to share that
2 min read
Jan
10
Rynn Berry, Jogger Who Collapsed In Prospect Park, Has Died

Rynn Berry, Jogger Who Collapsed In Prospect Park, Has Died

We’re sad to hear that Rynn Berry, the 68-year-old man who collapsed while jogging in Prospect Park on New
1 min read
May
20
Remembering Neighbor Barbara Henderson

Remembering Neighbor Barbara Henderson

Brooklyn’s sport-loving kids and their parents lost an enthusiastic leader when Barbara Marucci Henderson, a lifelong Park Slope resident,
1 min read
Feb
04

Op-Ed: My Personal Experiences With Ed Koch

Former NYC Mayor, Edward I. Koch, 1924-2013. Source: adam.luis.amengual / Flickr Of all the elected officials I have known
7 min read
Nov
30

Stella Angel, Holocaust Survivor And Former Owner Of Bay Food Market, Passes At 93

Stella Angel with her daughter (center) and neighborhood girls in front of their Sheepshead Bay Road storefront.Click to enlarge.
3 min read