Another weekend full of tragedies. First, our Haitian neighbors in Flatbush braced for uncertainty and worried about their loved ones as another earthquake hit their homeland, only to be followed by a tropical storm tonight. Brooklyn rallied to help. Then - another mass shooting. This time by the Roosevelt Houses,
New bus lanes and busways; hundreds of new cameras to enforce bus lane laws; the introduction of transit signal priority at 750 new intersections; a pilot program for all-door boarding and more.
Haiti just does not seem to be able to get a break. As you no doubt have heard by now, on Saturday it suffered a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that has killed [https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Haiti%20-%20Flash%20Update%20-%20Earthquake%20-%2020210815.pdf] at
Commissioner Dave Chokshi, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene informed New Yorkers this morning that the third dose of both Pfizer and Moderna COVID19 vaccines is available to immunocompromised New Yorkers starting today. "Late last week, the FDA and CDC recommended that people with certain immunocompromising conditions get the
As COVID-19 infection rates keep rising across New York City, the city will require certain establishments to verify that staff and patrons are vaccinated against COVID-19 starting on August 17, 2021. Enforcement will begin on September 13, 2021.
politics
Chaim Deutsch may have been expelled from the City Council. But that doesn’t mean he’s disappeared from the public eye.
In the wee hours this morning, about 100-150 people had gathered in front of 927 DeKalb Avenue, The Roosevelt Houses, listening to some amplified music, when two unknown shooters walked over from Pulaski street and fired shots into the crowd wounding 8 people, police informed. Via Citizen [https://citizen.com/
Gowanus
Brooklyn Borough President and Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams announced his support for a controversial rezoning of the Gowanus area, giving the long-delayed project a boost.
Two years after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced $9 million for Brownsville [https://bklyner.com/exclusive-mayor-promises-brownsville-almost-9-million-in-wake-of-mass-shooting/] following the 2019 mass shooting during the Old Timers festival [https://bklyner.com/outrage-over-12-people-shot-at-old-timers-festival-in-brownsville/] , we looked at what has happened to the money. We also looked at what the new census data has revealed
New York’s biggest borough just got a little bigger. Brooklyn is just 2,100 people shy of its 1950 population peak, according to the NYC Department of City Planning. Brooklyn grew the most of any of the five boroughs in New York City, according to newly-released 2020 census data,
Did you know you could call the Brooklyn Public Library and listen to a short story? The program started last May as a way to connect with patrons that could not access the library's virtual programming [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/coronavirus/virtual-resources] while the branches were closed during
Just over two years ago, in the wake of a mass shooting at the Old Timers’ Day event in Brownsville that left one dead and 11 others injured, Mayor Bill de Blasio committed nearly $9 million in funding to support anti-violence initiatives in the neighborhood.