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Borough Park

After a Wave of Anti-Semitic Violence, NYC Schools Plans Curriculum to Combat Hate

First Lady McCray and Chancellor Richard Carranza visit Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Brooklyn for a discussion on anti-Semitism and hate crime prevention on Friday, January 3, 2020. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeOriginally posted on Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/01/03/after-a-wave-of-anti-semitic-violence-nyc-schools-plans-curriculum-to-combat-hate/?utm_source=republish&

Bay Ridge

Bay Ridge Links Hands in Solidarity Against Nazi Posters

Fight Back Bay Ridge organized anti-racism protest on 86th and 3rd Avenue in BrooklynBAY RIDGE — As thousands marched over the Brooklyn Bridge [/jewish-solidarity-march/]in the big Solidarity rally, over 250 residents of Bay Ridge linked hands along 3rd Avenue and made it clear yesterday – hate has no home here, nor

Announcements

‘An Attack Against All Jews Is an Attack Against all New Yorkers’ — Thousands March in Solidarity in NYC

Solidarity march on Brooklyn bridge. Madeleine Kornfeld/Bklyner.Thousands of people marched in solidarity on Sunday, January 5, to protest anti-Semitism and demonstrate support for Jewish neighbors affected by recent incidents of anti-Semitic violence. A sea of winter hats, hoods, and yarmulkes flooded Foley Square around 11 a.m. in

midwood

RIP: Two Deaths on Sunday

MIDWOOD – On Sunday, January 5, 2020, at approximately just before 3 am, Tatyana Mihnyonok, 28, was found dead in the stairwell on the 5th-floor landing at 1480 Ocean Avenue in Midwood (between I and J) where she resided. NYPD say there were no signs of trauma, and no criminality is

canarsie

Senior Pedestrian Killed in Canarsie Hit-and-Run

CANARSIE — A senior pedestrian was struck by a car in Canarsie on Friday afternoon. On Friday, January 3, around 1 p.m., police responded to a 911 call for a pedestrian struck at Flatlands Avenue and East 78 Street, cops said. The victim, 70-year-old Maria Lorente, was steps away from

community

Protest Iran Escalations and March in Solidarity with the Jewish Communities this Weekend

Rapid Action In Response To Iran Escalations [https://www.facebook.com/events/s/rapid-action-in-response-to-ir/625347878239711/] Today Mayor Bill De Blasio held a press conference [/iran-and-safety-in-nyc-see-something-say-something/] along with Police Commissioner Dermot Shea and NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller to update the public on last night’s

Police & Fire

Iran and Safety in NYC: See Something, Say Something

Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner Shea and Deputy Commissioner Miller hold a media availability in response to President Trump’s air strikes. Blue Room, City Hall. Friday, January 03, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Last night’s international developments – the killing of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian

Bushwick

Talking to Neighbors: Anti-Semitism in Williamsburg

Last year saw another spike in reported hate crimes, much of it perpetrated against our Jewish neighbors. So we went out to talk to our neighbors, both Jewish and not, about anti-Semitism, hate, what’s being done and could be done. According to NYPD reports, by mid-2019, anti-Semetic hate crimes

Police & Fire

Four Shot and Wounded in Sunset Park

SUNSET PARK — Three men and a woman were shot in Sunset Park on Thursday night. On January 2, around 8.10 p.m., right next to the Iglesia Sol de Justicia church [https://www.facebook.com/IglesiasMisioneras/] on 3rd Avenue and 62 street, an individual opened fire from a vehicle,

Announcements

First Babies of the Year: Brooklyn Edition

Aiden, first baby born in NYC of the New Year, with mom Jennet Zobnin and dad Artyom Zobnin at NYC Health + Hospitals – Coney Island branch.At the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2020, baby boy Aiden Zobnin became the first Brooklyn baby born in the New Year, Coney Island

Central Brooklyn

Here’s What’s Behind a Missed Piece of Brooklyn History

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS—Something was clearly missing from the exterior wall of the TD Bank branch at the corner of Montague and Court Street. Peter Duffy told Bklyner that it was “pretty obvious something had been there and was removed,” as he walked past the building in bustling downtown Brooklyn days

Bensonhurst

Same Classroom, Different Salaries: Special Education Pre-K Teachers Earn Dramatically Less than Their General Education Co-teachers

Classroom 12 at HeartShare Taranto in Brooklyn relies on a rotating mix of substitute teachers and other staffers ever since the special education teacher left for a higher-paying job at the education department. Christina Veiga/ChalkbeatOriginally posted on Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/01/02/same-classroom-different-salaries-special-education-pre-k-teachers-earn-dramatically-less-than-than-their-general-education-co-teachers/?utm_

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