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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerIt’s Wednesday! Can you believe we are already halfway done with July? Where has the time gone? * TODAY is the deadline to file your taxes, or file for extension! * Six people were shot in Crown Heights this morning. One of them died, we reported. [/six-people-were-shot-in-crown-heights-this-morning-one-of-them-died/] * Because
Announcements
Mayor de Blasio with Council Member Cornegy, clergy, and community members on a walk through Bed-Stuy. (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) BROOKLYN – The Mayor announced a new Central Brooklyn Violence Prevention plan today after an uptick in shootings. This comes after a weekend of violence across the city, which
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Photo at the scene via Loudlabs.CROWN HEIGHTS – Six people were shot early this morning. Five are in stable condition and one died from her wounds. On Wednesday, July 15 at around 2:11 a.m., a group of people was outside a building on President Street near Franklin Avenue
Business
The outside of the Natoora headquarters in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Taken by, courtesy of Natoora.)With its base in East Williamsburg, the North American branch of Natoora [https://natoora.com/how-to-buy/delivered/index.php] used to source and supply seasonal and unique fruit and vegetables as well as other pantry
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Photo by Erica Price/Bkyner.It’s Tuesday! There have been a lot of shootings taking place these past few days in our borough. We hope you are safe and well. * On Thursday, summer school rising 7th-grade students at Achievement First (AF) Endeavor school in Brooklyn [/students-at-brooklyn-middle-school-sent-home-with-insensitive-problem/] went home with
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Protestors holding the American and Blue Lives Matter flags. (Photo via Rathkopf Photography, with permission.)BROOKLYN – Over the weekend, there were 28 shooting incidents across the city, the NYPD told us. The number at the same time last year? Five. “With a troubling spike in shootings throughout the five boroughs,
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Governors Island in 2019 © Julienne SchaerGovernors Island, all 172 acres of it, will open again to the public for ‘passive recreation’ on Wednesday, July 15 with a daily ferry service from lower Manhattan. Brooklyn residents will be able to take a direct ferry from Red Hook’s Atlantic Basin rather
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Unite NY Rally on Juneteenth 2020. Adrian Childress/BklynerStudents may be drawn first to the calming impacts of mindfulness, but mindfulness can also be seen as empowerment – a way to eliminate the internal obstacles that stop them from stepping fully into their power, dignity, and creativity – essential tools on the
COVID-19
EAST NEW YORK — On a Saturday morning in late June the line at the food pantry at the Brooklyn Sports Club in Spring Creek Towers, commonly known as Starrett City, was trailing around the block and doubling back in the parking lot. Susie Williams was near the entrance of the
COVID-19
Governor Andrew Cuomo delivers coronavirus briefing. Governor’s Press office.By Reema Amin and Alex Zimmerman, originally published in Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/7/13/21323308/nyc-schools-reopening-coronavirus-cuomo?fbclid=IwAR1pWV0Cf1sm9zK7jpvHOeLQ9CZoYeyPrqcjyGN1ZKvJak_zdlDO5KraEic] If the city’s infection rate surges past 9% later in August or after the school
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Photo by Erica Price at Coney Island Beach.Happy Monday! The weekend was filled with shootings, deaths, and protests. We hope this week will be a good one. * A one-year-old baby boy was shot and killed at a cookout last night in Bed Stuy [/one-year-old-boy-shot-and-killed-at-cookout/]. Three other people were also
Education
On Thursday, July 9th, summer school rising 7th grade students at Achievement First (AF) Endeavor school in Brooklyn were given a math problem that many parents found offensive. The question read, “In 1787, if an enslaved African was considered 3/5th of a person for representation in Congress, how many