Cobble Hill Association president Roy Sloane released a video today produced the the organization to raise awareness about the fight to save Long Island College Hospital.
Watch the video and read more after the jump.
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Listen To Episode 6: A Night With Kambri Download From iTunes Here In This Episode: We spend the full hour with the amazing Kambri Crews. She tells us what it’s like to grow up as a hearing child with two deaf parents, adventures with mom’s “back massager”, and the night she found out that her father was […]
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BookCourt at 163 Court Street in Cobble Hill will host Thea Goodman, author of “The Sunshine When She’s Gone,” with a reading, Q&A and signing on Monday, March 18 at 7 p.m. Drinks will be served! “Her book is a fresh and funny debut novel about marriage and new parenting—about the love, longing and ambivalence […]
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It’s hard for me to believe they’re all gone now. Liam was the last; he died just over three years ago. I had the pleasure and honor of meeting Paddy some years ago at the Lion’s Head bar and harmonizing with him on a song. I went to a memorial concer…
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The Times reports that New York Supreme Court Justice Johnny Baynes, who earlier extended a temporary restraining order against SUNY’s shutdown of Long Island College Hospital, has ruled that the SUNY board acted in violation of New York State’s open meetings law, and vacated the board’s decision to close LICH. According to the Times: The […]
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Listen To Episode 5: Taken In Download From iTunes Here In This Episode: Cat Napped: Sharda Sekaran reveals how she, her high school friends, and a train full of New Yorkers saved a cat from a man on the subway who claimed to be a space alien. Martha’s Meltdown: Lora Chio once booked a job in a […]
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Listen To Episode 4: New Friends, Old Friends Download From iTunes Here In This Episode: Listen To Your Mother: Katharine’s mother talks about the time she was a teenager and almost kidnapped into white slavery while visiting Marrakesh. Then she shares a short story about when her mother was captured by the Nazi’s during WWII. Wait… […]
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My old Lion’s Head drinking buddy Michael Simmons, often a helpful source of ideas for blog posts, sent me a message with the caption “The King of the Jews.” In it, he asked, “Was Elvis a landsmann?” (roughly, the Yiddish equivalent of “homebo…
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Listen to Episode 3: For The Love Of… Download from iTunes here In This Episode: I’m Your Daddy: Dean Haspiel shares the very touching story of how he helped out a friend in need. By donating his sperm. Finding Esteban: John Knefel fell hard for a girl, and took a trip to Argentina to see her. It didn’t […]
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The New York Post reports on Dr. Justin Bazan, a Park Slope eye doctor, who breaks out the beer and booze for patients on occasion. That’s legal, right? It’s like Mad Men era doctors smoking with their patients, right?
Heck, dilate our pupils and hang up a disco ball and we’ve got a party!
February 10, 2013