Brooklyn College News

The future of hyperlocal news--and the business models behind it--was the subject of a most interesting conference held today at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

There's no need to leave Brooklyn for a Broadway caliber show. Wikimedia Commons Going out to a Broadway show is one of the treats of living in New York City.

Before Obama, there was Chisholm. On November 5, 1968, Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representa-tives. She was born on Nov.

"On the day before a holiday, you feel you have a destination just by being on the road with so many people who do.

Sapphire wrote the novel Push in a fractured ghetto patois that grew out of the author's experiences as a remedial reading teacher.

The Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives Thursday gave out its "Pokey," "Schleppie" and "Trekkie" Awards for poor and ultra-slow bus service in the city.

On Nov. 5, 1990 Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist, was fatally shot after a speech at a New York hotel.

Following his narrow victory last night, Michael Bloomberg may make changes - Ben Smith reports in Politico that he has "already promised a major shakeup of his senior aides." So who's headed out the door? David Bloomfield, an education professor at Brooklyn College, bets on Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

The 2009-10 season Cabaret Series is sponsored by Mondorf and Fenwick CPAs. The New York Times is quoted as saying that Reissa a oeresembles the young Barbara Streisanda .

Denise Simone died last week at age 50. She was a teacher and a principal in the New York City public schools for 26 years.

Experts and researchers from over 59 countries are participating in Qatar University's joint international technical conferences on Relational Methods in Computer Science and, Applications of Kleene Algebra , which opened yesterday at Ramada Hotel.

CUNY , the City University of New York, has nearly 250,000 students enrolled in its 23 institutions located through the New York City region.

Seymour Fromer, the courtly catalyst for two major Bay Area Jewish institutions, died Oct.

Literary Agent Regina Brooks gives writers all the advice they need to tap this incredible market andA shows themA how to listen to young adults so that they can create characters their audience can identify with.A Regina Brooks has developed award-winning authors across the YA genre, including a Coretta Scott King winner.

It's hard to become the bard. To get a gig as Brooklyn's new poet laureate, the borough's wordsmiths have until Nov.

Bay Ridge artist Beryl Brenner currently has her colorful works in glass featured in several exhibits throughout New York City and three in Brooklyn: "The Artists of Urban Glass" on Rockwell Street between Fulton Street and DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene and "Glass and Textile Art" and "My Personal Story" at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center ...

Public relations man Dan Klores , who counts among his 100 clients Jennifer Lopez and choreographer Mark Morris, seemed relaxed and accessible at a screening of his first film, the documentary "The Boys of 2nd Street Park" at Brooklyn College on Sept.

The city Department of Corrections will double the prisoner capacity of the Brooklyn House of Detention as part of a scheme to add retail to the jail's first floor.

Meet the editors of the new anthology, "Jews of Brooklyn," on Dec. 6 at 7 pm at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Brooklyn College's creative writing program was listed No. 15 in a recent ranking of master of fine arts programs nationwide by Poets & Writers Magazine.