Sunday, February 28, 2010

Brooklyn stroke victim and nursing student who saved him reunited




The Daily News had a nice story of rescue and CPR at the 36th street Subway station. The stroke victim was treated at the Lutheran Medical Center here in Sunset Park.

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Brooklyn Irish remember Bloody Sunday in Sunset Park




The Irish Echo had a story of a recent commemoration of Bloody Sunday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica on Fifth Avenue at 59th Street.


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Brooklyn Home Foreclosures spread to Sunset Park



Sunset Park is mentioned in this piece that appeared in the International Business Times



Meghan Faux, head of the Foreclosure Prevention Project of South Brooklyn Legal Services, said that Brooklyn home foreclosures have spread into Sunset Park and in other neighborhoods where no resident was distressed in the past. She added that the major foreclosure factor was still toxic mortgage underwriting, although the high unemployment rate has been forcing newer batches of homeowners to default.

With 25% of the national mortgage market under water, it was only a matter of time before we got hit. As it appears that the economy will not get any better any time soon and with the city raising real estate taxes to boot even though our house valuations have gone down the rising tax evaluations means we will be paying more, not less in real estate taxes. The city Government never shrinks as long as sucker taxpayers are around and we elect politicians who only see government as an employment agency for their cronies and supporters.

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Interview: Mark Izeman, director of NRDC's New York urban program




An interview with Mark Izeman, director of NRDC's (Natural Resources Defense Council) New York urban program mentions the new Sunset Park recycling Plant being built on the waterfront.

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle does Cop Out







Bruce Willis holds an umbrella in Bay Ridge last year during the filming of Cop Out.
Eagle photo by Georgine Benvenuto




The Brooklyn Daily Eagle did a review of COP OUT the film that was filmed here in Bay Ridge (mostly in Bay Ridge), Sunset Park and Park Slope. For people in the nabe watching the film will also give them an opportunity to see scenes of the are play as background and will be recognizable to many. Don't be a cheapskate, don't wait for it to come out on DVD or blueray, get your butts to a movie theater right now.


The New York Times also did a review of the film, but barely mentions it was filmed in Brooklyn, much less the nabe. Spumoni Gardens in Bay Ridge gets a mention in the review.



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