Ruger, Guide and Beloved Companion, Is Mourned
A poster dog for the rights of the disabled passes away.
View ArticleGoodbye to a Snapper of Streetball
A postcard from the wake of Robert (Surrob) Negron, an artist in the Bronx.
View ArticleA Confronter of Killers Meets His Match
Philip Carlo, chronicler of mass murderers and survivor of Lou Gehrig's disease, succumbs to cancer.
View ArticleGuy Velella, 66, Politician Brought Down by Ethical Lapses, Dies
Guy J. Velella, a former state senator and an influential figure in Albany until he pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy seven years ago, died Thursday at 66.
View ArticleRemembering a Brooklyn Publisher Who Kept the News Local
Without a computer and shunning e-mail, a newspaper publisher brought to life the comings and goings — good and bad — in one corner of Brooklyn for decades.
View ArticleRecalling a Slight but Towering Figure at Bronx Science
Students of Arnold Canell, who has died at age 97, forgave him his politics, his eccentricities and much else, because he left them with an ardent love of great writers.
View ArticleGetting the Story of a Man’s Life Right, at Last
Setting the record straight on the obituary of a Navy lieutenant published in 1899.
View ArticleDeath Stills Laughter of the Seaport’s Jolly Old Elf
Robert Franklin, 85, a white-bearded seasonal denizen of the South Street Seaport and one of the city’s longest-running Santas, has died.
View ArticleA Lipstick Autograph, 85 Dropping Hammers and an Aria for a Dying Poodle
Merle Hubbard has an inexhaustible number of tales about the Metropolitan Opera.
View ArticleBeloved Brooklyn Cow Dies of Natural Causes
Aggie of the Prospect Park Zoo was 18 and something of a crowd favorite, who often received notes in her "moo box."
View ArticleElizabeth, an Iguana With Many Friends, Dies at 19
Elizabeth, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum’s senior iguana, died on Thursday in her enclosure.
View Article‘Tell Them That I Love Photography’
His muse, the Gowanus, was an unlikely one. The Lens blog published an appreciation of the Brooklyn photographer Jose Gaytan, who died this week.
View ArticleFarewell to a Boy Who Sang at the Apollo
Danion Jones, who performed in the Apollo Theater's Stars of Tomorrow series, died last Sunday from complications related to a brain tumor. His funeral was held Saturday.
View ArticleRichard J. Sheirer, City Emergency Chief on 9/11, Dies
Mr. Sheirer, 65, led the Office of Emergency Management during the terrorist attacks.
View ArticleA Time of Green Matzo Balls and Yiddish Theater
Robert Anzelowitz, who died last week at 79, was raised at his father's restaurant, Moskowitz & Lupowitz, but learned his manners at the Yiddish Art Theater.
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