On The Sixth Night Of Chanukah...
By Neil S. Friedman
      Standing out amidst houses decorated with colorful holiday lights and adorned with various Christmas decorations, is one Mill Basin home that celebrates Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, that, like the Christian celebration, traditionally falls every December.
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Canarsie High School Will Be "Phased Out" In 2008
By Neil S. Friedman
      Exactly one year after the New York City Department of Education (DOE) said it would close - or phase out - South Shore and four other public high schools, it announced on Monday that Canarsie High School was slated for the same fate. The grim news came just five weeks after the secondary...
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Cops Help Quell Fire On East 87th Street
      Police patrol officers from the 69th Precinct answered an emergency call early last Friday of a fire in a three story home on East 87th Street near Seaview Avenue. They arrived just in time to help the landlady of the house wake her tenants to tell them of the fire.
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Maisel Calls Proposed Homeland Security Cuts "Dangerous"
      By Assembly Member Alan Maisel President Bush's startling proposal to slash homeland security funding by more than half next year is an ill-conceived plan that illustrates, yet again, how misguided and irresponsible this president is in battling the threat of terrorism.
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Meeting Gives Tips On How To Deal With Mortgage Crisis
      Mortgage foreclosure experts were on hand at last Monday's meeting called by City Councilman Lew Fidler to address the "crisis," that has given Canarsie the dubious distinction of being called the borough's "number one neighborhood for sub-prime loans.
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Salt Marsh Center Has Holiday Lighting Ceremony
      Last week the Millennium Development Corporation, the New York City Department of Parks and Urban Park Rangers combined to conduct a holiday lighting ceremony at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center, at 3302 Avenue U, just a few miles west of Canarsie.
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Harvesting Food For Donations
      Meyer Levin I.S. 285 students, staff and Principal Edward Gentile stand in front of City Harvest truck that recently picked up over 900 items of non-perishable food collected over the last few months for the organization's annual holiday drive. The collection was coordinated by teachers Chris...
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Church-Going Burglars Nabbed
      Police patrol officers from the 69th Precinct last Tuesday arrested two men who had allegedly broken into a church under construction on East 78th Street near Ralph Avenue.
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Pet Of The Week
      Was that invisible 6-foot rabbit a Giant Lop? No, but Bun-Bun is. She is a visible, touchable 1-year-old bundle of fuzz. To adopt Bun-Bun (A738907), please visit the Animal Care & Control in Brooklyn at 2336 Linden Blvd., where you can see and adopt other loving pets. We are open seven day...
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Holiday Lighting Safety
      A recent survey showed that a large number of homeowners may be overlooking serious issues while hanging holiday lights in and on their homes. "There's no question that many people like their holiday displays to be the talk of the block," said David Lupberger. Lupberger is the home impr...
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