Brooklyn

Born July 20, 1941, died on March 7th, 2007, in Brooklyn, NY. Memorial Services Saturday, March 17th at 2:00 pm. at Lawrence H. Woodward Funeral Home, One Troy Ave. in Brooklyn, NY.

Rickie Tinsley's mother held onto a wooden pew inside a Brooklyn church and tried to explain how she carries on - looking after her two other sons, checking in with police and organizing a vigil last night to mark the six-month anniversary of his killing. "It's so rough," said 50-year-old Valerie Hill, Tinsley's mother. "When they killed Rickie, they killed a part of his mother, his father, his brothers. The world as we know it, it's not the same anymore. My heart hasn't completely connected with reality."

Judith Gevantman, a former Baltimorean and vice president of a New York bond-rating firm, died of ovarian cancer Friday at Sinai Hospital. She was 50 and lived in Brooklyn, N.Y.Born in Baltimore, Ms. Gevantman was the daughter of Rabbi Chaim Gevantman, founder of Suburban Orthodox Congregation in Pikesville, and Charlotte Selma Gevantman. She graduated from Pikesville High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Russian and Russian literature from Goucher College, and a master's degree in Russian from New York University.

NEW YORK -- Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is clenching a hot dog with both hands, taking tiny bites as he stands before a press corps hungrier than 336-pound "Hungry" Charles Hardy of Brooklyn. While Hardy stuffs an entire Nathan's hot dog into his mouth to promote a Fourth of July international hot-dog-eating contest on Coney Island, Giuliani declares he is rooting for Hardy because the jumbo-sized champion comes from Brooklyn.Even in hot-dog-eating contests, Giuliani believes the New Yorker should win. Not a bad mantra for the mayor, a Brooklyn native himself, whose likely bid for the Senate against Hillary Rodham Clinton next year already hinges on the idea that only a New York native deserves victory.

July was supposed to be the month when 15 years of waiting ended in Brooklyn. When the south city neighborhood finally got the anchor it needs to revive its retail district. When ground finally was broken on a new district courthouse that residents had once expected to see finished before President Reagan left office.But at the last minute, with contractors in place and a final design approved, the state reversed itself and quietly ruled that the city's 3rd District courthouse will not be built at the corner of Potee and Patapsco.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- David Gregory was leader of the vicious Double Seal drug gang that, until early this year, dominated the heroin trade in the southern Baltimore neighborhoods of Cherry Hill and Westport, federal officials say.Baltimore homicide detectives suspect that he also may be a killer. But to a number of teen-agers both in Baltimore and in the Caribbean enclave of East Flatbush in Brooklyn, he was a modern-day Fagin."David Gregory saw himself as a godfather," says Essam Rabadi, an agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

As Tom Clancy, the prestigious author whose prolific creativity has led to worldwide recognition and untold fortune, once said facetiously: "I'd rather sell my children to the gypsies than have them root for the Washington Redskins."From a provincial viewpoint, such a targeted declaration fully expressed the feelings inherent in Baltimore. But only Baltimore; certainly not Washington.Clancy spoke it like the true native son he is, growing up in a rowhouse and a former occupant of second-deck seats for Baltimore Colts games at Memorial Stadium.

Rupert Murdoch's Fox Group agreed to buy the Dodgers 40 years, almost to the day, after they and the Giants left New York for the West Coast.The Sun's Peter Schmuck probably spoke for most people outside New York when he wrote Sept. 5: "The late Walter O'Malley is considered the pioneer who turned Major League Baseball into a truly national pastime when he moved the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles."Nobody disputes that the major leagues needed to establish themselves outside the Northeast, and that San Francisco and Los Angeles deserved big-league ball clubs (well, I cling to the stereotype that Los Angeles fans will leave a double no-hitter in the seventh inning to beat the traffic to the beach, but let that go)

Homicide investigators are seeking a male suspect and a car in the slaying of a woman who was found dead on a South Baltimore street early yesterday.Homicide Detective Ray Jones said passers-by found Georgia Ann Lilly, 26, of no fixed address, in the 3400 block of Seventh St. in Brooklyn about 2: 20 a.m. He declined to give the cause of death.Pub Date: 6/20/97

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- The sign is taped to the window of the Brooklyn Public Library. At first, it casts doubt on everything ever said about New York. The sign's notion is warm, fuzzy, dreamy even, in the face of the odds. "Bring the Dodgers home to Brooklyn," it says. In January, the Los Angeles Dodgers were put up for sale by owner Peter O'Malley. He is the son of Walter O'Malley, who in 1957 committed the sort of atrocity, folks in Brooklyn say, for which the United Nations convenes War Crimes Tribunals: He moved the beloved Dodgers from Ebbets Field to sunny Southern California.

A Baltimore Circuit Court jury acquitted the first of a half-dozen defendants to be tried in the death of a 14-year-old boy who was shot to death last year while riding his bicycle in Brooklyn as part of an alleged payback conspiracy. Lawrence Lewis, 47, said he was in the van with the killer and rode along while the crime was committed, but he didn't know what was happening and therefore wasn't culpable. "I was stuck, they was my ride," he testified last week. The jury acquitted him Friday.

On March 23, 2009 MAE J. wife of the late Brooklyn Harlee, Sr. Mother of Brenda Barnett, Bernadette Regan, Quindairian Gryce, Brooklyn, Jr., George and Dennis Harlee. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Monday after 8 a.m. The family will receive friends at Christian Life Church, 6605 Liberty Road on Tuesday at 11 a.m. Funeral Services will follow at 11:30 a.m.

On February 13, 2009, James A. Sr Friends may call at the The Brooklyn Bible Chapel, 502 Jack Street on Wednesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. and Thursday from 9 A.M. til 10:00 A.M. Services will follow at 10:30 A.M. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Missionary Progress Program at the Brooklyn Bible Chapel. Arrangements by Gonce Funeral Service. P.A.

Baltimore police detectives charged four people in the killing of a 14-year-old boy in Brooklyn last month and are seeking a fifth person in the case. Police charging documents allege that several adults were robbed by an unidentified person in a Brooklyn home Nov. 18 and then sought retribution. Three adults drove to a Southwest Baltimore house, where they picked up guns and two accomplices, then returned to Brooklyn, where they found Steven Graham riding his bicycle past a fire station, according to the documents.

On June 26, 2008, WILLIAM L. of Brooklyn MD; beloved son of the late Robert and Nora Herget and devoted brother of James A. Herget and his wife Nancy of Brooklyn, Edward Herget of Perry Point,, MD, Joan Rathell of Brooklyn and Norma Ferrell of Glen Burnie. Family will receive friends at the family owned an operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A.,237 E. Patapsco Avenue, (Brooklyn) on Tuesday from 11 to 1 P.M., where funeral services will be held at 1P.M. Interment in Glen Haven Memorial Park.

On May 18, 2008 George. Friends may call at the family owned GONCE FUNERAL SERVICE P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway on Wednesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Further visitation will be held on Thursday in the Brooklyn Bible Chapel, 502 Jack St. from 10:30 til 11:00 at which time services will be held. Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. In Lieu of Flowers Contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society or the Brooklyn Bible Chapel

On May 11, 2008, DANNIE MAE (nee Pierce) ; devoted mother of Violetine Harvey Mullens and Milton Pierce of Halifax, NC. She is also survived by two brothers, James Pierce of Brooklyn, NY, and Theodore Pierce of Nashville, NC, three sisters-in-law, Mary Pierce of Brooklyn, NY, Lucille Pierce of Nashville, NC, and Maxine Bell of Jackson, NC. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Thursday after 8 A.M., where the...

On April 5, 2007 ERNESTINE L., age 98, formerly of Brooklyn. Friends may call at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 237 E. Patapsco Avenue-Brooklyn on Monday from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. where services will be held on Tuesday at 1 p.m. Interment Loudon Park Cemetery.

Born July 20, 1941, died on March 7th, 2007, in Brooklyn, NY. Memorial Services Saturday, March 17th at 2:00 pm. at Lawrence H. Woodward Funeral Home, One Troy Ave. in Brooklyn, NY.

Rickie Tinsley's mother held onto a wooden pew inside a Brooklyn church and tried to explain how she carries on - looking after her two other sons, checking in with police and organizing a vigil last night to mark the six-month anniversary of his killing. "It's so rough," said 50-year-old Valerie Hill, Tinsley's mother. "When they killed Rickie, they killed a part of his mother, his father, his brothers. The world as we know it, it's not the same anymore. My heart hasn't completely connected with reality."