The Brooklyn Eagle reports on The Brooklynites, a new book by Seth Kushner and Anthony LaSala. It covers many of the borough’s characters including Emma Sullivan, owner of the Long Island Restaurant on Atlantic Avenue:

Brooklyn Eagle: Internationally famous Brooklynites are included: Spike Lee, Paul Auster and Jonathan Lethem, for instance. So, of course, are those well known only on their blocks, like Dominick Guarnera, a Bay Ridge barber, and Emma Sullivan, who has owned a Cobble Hill restaurant since she took over for her father 50 years ago. “Now everyone comes here to show me their babies and their family,” Sullivan says. “It’s still a family place. I just sold over $5,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies. I had to put the beer away just so I could fit the cookies.”

The slowest bus in Brooklyn has met its match — NY Daily News supervixen Denise Romano. The plucky journo “raced” the B63 and wrote about it in today’s paper:

NY Daily News: News Reporter Times Herself…: To be fair to myself, let me just say there was no traffic during this little experiment, which began at 10 a.m. on Thursday. Nobody was double-parked, so the buses − three B63s − whizzed right through the streets.

Finally, I caught a break at St. Marks Ave. There was no sign of a bus, but there was tons of traffic. With the coast clear, I even had time to buy a bottle of water before I hit Atlantic Ave. [Full Story]