MARTY MARKOWITZ TO INDUCT 3 STOOGES

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."

For more information on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Celebrity Path, including a list of past honorees, visit www.bbg.org/exp/stroll/celebritypath.html.