BP MARKOWITZ, BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN TO INDUCT THREE STOOGES, AUTHOR PAUL AUSTER INTO CELEBRITY PATH

6:00 P.M.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN
1000 WASHINGTON AVENUE
BROOKLYN

On Wednesday, June 24, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will join the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in inducting the latest Brooklynites to the Garden’s Celebrity Path. This year’s honorees are Moe Howard, Shemp Howard and Curly Howard, the Brooklyn-born brothers who became The Three Stooges (posthumous) and author Paul Auster.

Since 1985, more than 160 Brooklyn notables, including Walt Whitman, Jackie Gleason, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Norman Mailer and Gil Hodges, have had their names embedded in an 18-inch by 24-inch concrete paver and decorated with a stylized leaf outline cast in bronze. Each paver also contains a bronze medallion of the Brooklyn Bridge, encircled by the phrase, “The Greatness of Brooklyn Is Its People.”