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St Edmund Prep. LienaZagare/BklynerThree Catholic Academies and one Parish School in Southern Brooklyn, serving 1,070 students, have so far recorded only one confirmed COVID19 case. Brooklyn Diocese is arguing that this proves their safety policies are effectively protecting our students and teachers and the schools should not be
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Sama’s dad and brothers. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BATH BEACH – The community is calling for safer streets after seven-year-old Sama Ali was killed by a truck driver [/sama-ali-killed-scooter/] as she was crossing the street on her scooter last week. The little girl had been riding her scooter on September
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Earlier today Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that public and private schools in COVID-19 hotspot clusters – those exceeding 3% infection rate – will not reopen tomorrow for in-person instruction. He blamed the decision on lack of enforcement of current rules to contain COVID-19 in the city, by the city, and said Mayor
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GERRITSEN BEACH – A four-year-old boy is fighting for his life after he was struck by a minivan driver while crossing the street on his scooter. It happened just after 6:00 p.m. yesterday, October 4 on Gerritsen Avenue near Seba Avenue. According to the cops, the little boy was
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Fire on Pitkin Avenue early this morning. (Photo: Loudlabs NYC)EAST NEW YORK – A four-year-old boy and five more people including two firefighters were injured in an early morning fire. This morning at around 1:15 a.m., a fire broke out on the top floor of a three-story apartment
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Photo by Enayet Raheem [https://unsplash.com/@raheemsphoto?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/2020-census?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BROOKLYN – It’s not too late to fill out the 2020 census!
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At their postcarding event last Saturday where 1,200 postcards were completed. (Photo: Lia Minkoff)PARK SLOPE – Every Saturday for the last month and a half, two local women have been meeting at Prospect Park encouraging people to handwrite postcards to mail to voters throughout the country. Deborah Kaufmann and
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The fallen tree. (Photo: Ryan Lynch)DITMAS PARK – Tropical Storm Isaias hit Brooklyn in early August. [/was-brooklyn-prepared-for-tropical-storm-isaias/] It left 22,000 households without power and left 21,000 fallen trees across the city – some 6,000 of them in Brooklyn. A week after the storm, a neighbor noticed a fallen
COVID-19
Abandoned construction site in the schoolyard by PS 9. Carol J. Clouse/Bklyner When parents in Prospect Heights learned in August that work on a capital improvement project to reduce stormwater runoff would begin in the main schoolyard at PS9 Sarah Smith Garnet School, just weeks ahead of the scheduled
Central Brooklyn
Quanda Francis, campaign photo.Quanda Francis did not have it easy growing up in Brooklyn [https://quandafrancis.com/meet-the-candidate]. The family lived at a housing project and moved to Queens due to gun violence. Francis herself became a mom at age 17. Yet, she persevered and overcame the obstacles, did
Central Brooklyn
Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitElected officials, MTA staff, and Medgar Evers College celebrated yesterday two newly renamed subway stations – Franklin Avenue-Medgar Evers College and President Street-Medgar Evers College. Senator Myrie and Assemblywoman Richardson. Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitThe stations were renamed following the legislation,
Arts & Culture
A Mixteca member looks at census fliers in Nahuatl, an Indigenous language. Sophia Lebowitz/BklynerMixteca Organization [http://www.mixteca.org/], serving Sunset Park’s Central American community, has been doing census and COVID-19 outreach in four different Indigenous Mesoamerican languages in addition to English and Spanish: Tu’u Savi, Ki’