AS OF 11 A.M. MONDAY MORNING, 18 people were already in line with sleeping bags and tents outsde the Red Hook IKEA, set to open on Wednesday. The opening-day events (beginning 6 a.m.!) will offer more freebies than previously mentioned. The first 35 adults in line at the 9 a.m. opening will receive an EKTORP..
THE CHIEF NURSE EXECUTIVE AT NEW YORK HARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, CYNTHIA CAROSELLI, PhD., has good reason to be proud of her team. The ever-important Combined Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at the Brooklyn Campus of the NYHHS, run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, was recently presented with the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence for..
ON JUNE 16, DIANA J. SZOCHET will be sworn in as the Brooklyn Bar Association’s 93rd president and its sixth female president. She is taking over from RoseAnn Branda, who has served for the last year. In addition to her executive-board functions, Szochet is involved with numerous BBA committees, including the Pro Bono Committee and..
DURING SIX WEEKS IN APRIL AND MAY, BROOKLYN MUSEUM’S SHELLEY BERNSTEIN put the role of curator into your hands — and those of anyone who wished to vote on the web site where 389 photos taken by the public awaited evaluation. The votes have been tallied, and for the in-museum show, “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition,”..
How does one begin to capture the voice of a borough? The answer would seem to be by talking to its people. This is what author MARC ELIOT chose to do for his latest book. Eliot, who was raised by an aunt in Canarsie, has made a name for himself writing biographies of such people as..
German-born Park Slope resident CORDULA VOLKENING is many things. She is a mother of two and an artist known around the neighborhood for her construction and design work. Now, she is also a survivor. Volkening was diagnosed with advanced brain cancer last September. She has undergone two rounds of brain surgery and is currently in an..
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BENSONHURST RESIDENT ANNIE ZHU from the LaGuardia Aquatics Club has qualified to compete in the U.S. Olympic 100- and 200-meter breaststroke and individual medley trials this month. The goal: to represent the US at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Zhu will travel to Omaha, Nebraska, where she will face 50 of the nation’s..
CREST TRUE VALUE HARDWARE in Williamsburg may not strike you as a good-times hot spot, but Joseph Franquinha, manager of the family business, would like you to know that it definitely will be, next week, just in time to kick off summer. From June 7 to July 11, the hardware store will be the scene..
TO LENORE ARONS, BREAST CANCER IS NOT just about women, but men too, and it is a personal issue. In the middle of her own treatment she has selflessly put her time and energy into orchestrating a grand-scale fundraising event for the second year. On sequential nights through June, 25 Brooklyn restaurants — almost all..
NOT ONLY IS THE GOWANUS CANAL an unusual inner city waterway, it attracts some unusual fans and supporters. Though some European countries have cultivated canals as very practical transport arteries, not since the Erie Canal has New York City paid more attention to a man-made waterway. The Gowanus has again become a focal point because..