Central Brooklyn
Photo by Julie Ricard [https://unsplash.com/@jricard?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/brooklyn-nyc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Dr. Sanjiv S. Shah, Chief Medical Officer of MetroPlusHealth Before COVID,
Education
Photo by Kelly Sikkema [https://unsplash.com/@kellysikkema?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/remote-learning?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Shahana Hanif, a lifelong public school student and candidate for City
Education
A community-driven process in Red Hook, Brooklyn, led to parents to call for phasing out an elementary school and replacing it with a middle school. The process could serve as a model for these kinds of thorny school-level proposals moving forward. Christina Veiga/ChalkbeatBy Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York [https:
Health
By Claudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/health/2021/4/29/22411019/brooklyn-doctor-investigation-sha-asia-washington-childbirth-death] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] A former Woodhull Hospital anesthesiologist is under investigation by the New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct in connection with the
Education
Parents line up to speak at a CEC15 meeting. Photo by Megan McGibney/BklynerBy Reema Amin, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/30/22412836/community-education-council-election] Odds are, many public school parents don’t know who serves on their district’s Community Education Council. That may change. Voting
Education
By Reema Amin and Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/29/22409927/few-black-latino-students-admitted-specialized-high-schools-2021] The number of Black and Latino students admitted to the city’s vaunted specialized high schools dipped this year, a blow to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s long-running and largely unsuccessful goal
Bensonhurst
Council Member Alan Maisel In His District – John McCarten/NYC CouncilSouthern Brooklyn is facing a historic moment. Our residents and small businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic. Now, President Biden’s stimulus will bring billions of dollars to the City. Facing such crisis and opportunity, we need experienced,
affordable housing
By Khari Edwards [https://khariedwards.com/], candidate for Brooklyn Borough President Let’s assume you are single, living in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and desperately in need of housing because your current building is slated for demolition to make way for new construction. Your income from working full-time at a nonprofit is $35,
Carroll Gardens
By Briget Rein, Candidate for Council in D39. [https://www.brigetrein.com/] It has finally happened: Judge Katherine Levine lifted the temporary restraining order and the ULURP process has begun on rezoning Gowanus [/gowanus-rezoning-proceeds-to-public-review/]. The rezoning is inevitable. I want to make myself abundantly clear: I was never against the
Education
Mayor Bill de Blasio at Phyl’s Academy in Brooklyn. Officials announced Monday that all schools will receive the entire allotment of money they’re owed under the city’s own funding formula. Michael Appleton / Mayoral Photography OfficeBy Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/19/
affordable housing
A pedestrian crosses the street near 420 Stockholm St. in Bushwick. | Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITYBy Gabriel Sandoval and Hiram Alejandro Durán, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/brooklyn/2021/4/15/22386797/brooklyn-group-bushwick-building-affordable-housing] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] A Brooklyn nonprofit that
brownsville
NYPD Chief John Chell in a picture celebrating a previous promotion, dated May 3, 2019. | @NYPD84Pct / TwitterBy Eileen Grench, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/4/15/22386871/nypd-accidental-killers-rise-to-brooklyn-chief-questioned] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] Mayor Bill de Blasio this week weighed in