Kathleen (Kitty) Walsh, a 20-year-old college student, is a real fighter.
The young boxer is battling her way through the Daily News Golden Gloves tournament. The semi-final round for both men and women takes place this month, leading up to the finals at Madison Square Garden on March 25-26.
Walsh is hoping to emerge a champ – and make her way from New York to London for the 2012 Olympics.
What happens to a funeral home when it’s no longer a funeral home?
For Ava Gerber, who recently bought the Robert F. Cranford Funeral Home near Fort Greene Park on DeKalb Avenue, the answer was obvious: turn it into a yoga studio.
Then, bring students to the embalming room and help them meditate on death.
The price of a horse carriage ride in New York City could rise by $20 – to $54 for a half hour – if a proposed law is passed by City Council. It’s the latest issue to confront the contentious industry, where controversy often focuses on animal rights. The new legislation would further regulate standards for the treatment of carriage horses in addition to providing the first price hike in two decades.
Fridays are Lady Jasmin’s night at the Starlite Lounge. The resident drag queen at this Crown Heights mainstay performs Jennifer Hudson and old-school R&B songs with gusto — sometimes crying, doing backwards summersaults, and hurling her silver stilettos across the stage.
“You gotta see the show,” the regulars at the self-described “oldest black-owned non-discriminating bar in New York” tell the young hipsters who seem to be venturing through the doors these days.
Since opening in 1959, the Starlite Lounge on Nostrand Avenue and Bergen Street has served as a modest safe space for gay, lesbian, and transgendered people of color and their friends in Central Brooklyn. Older gay and straight neighborhood residents throw birthday parties at the Starlite, and gather at the bar after funerals. More recently arrived condo-dwellers pack the house for Thursday night karaoke.
But a recent change in the building’s ownership may force the Starlite Lounge to end its half-century run.
