“As Americans – as human beings – a lot of the information that we receive is through the lens of men,” Laura Roumanos, cofounder of Photoville, one of the two nonprofits behind the We, Women traveling photo exhibition, told Bklyner. This project shifts that perspective.
Education
City council members and the teachers union want New York City to further limit the number of students allowed in a classroom by amending the city’s administrative code, as COVID threatens to disrupt a third consecutive school year, writes Chalkbeat's Christina Veiga.
Health
Pregnant people in New York City could get new protections in the workplace and while receiving care, under bills soon to be considered by the City Council, writes THE CITY's Claudia Irizarry Aponte.
bklyn sounds
Tons of great live music coming up offering something for everyone. Don't miss the beginning of Celebrate Brooklyn, last shows at Vision Festival, Soul Summit parties, and more.
bklyn sounds
Great new releases by William Parker’s Mayan Space Station, Arushi Jain, DJ Manny, Les Filles de Illighadad, Bathe and more.
Transportation
The last-mile distribution centers—where merchandise is sorted before being delivered to customers throughout the city—are becoming increasingly common: at least five distribution centers are in the works in Red Hook alone.
During two weekends in August [https://new.mta.info/ftrain-summer21], (August 6-9 and 13-16) there will be significant service diversions on the F, G, C, and E lines as the MTA works to upgrade the Rutgers Tunnels [https://new.mta.info/projects/rutgers] and install fiber optic cables in the
Education
The next mayor of New York City, current Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, will be tasked to handle the many education issues facing the city’s 1.7 million schoolchildren. Advocates for secular studies hope that Mayor Adams will enforce the state education guidelines across all the schools, despite what
Neighbors in Greenpoint living near National Grid’s large fracked gas storage depot on Newtown Creek have filed a lawsuit [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/591df0576b8f5b5eb0ae5849/t/60fadd0278122c6dcc56baf3/1627053314678/Petition+and+Complaint_FINAL_PDF.pdf] to stop construction of the company’s Liquefied Natural Gas (“LNG”) Truck Load/Unload Station
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Health Department today announced that mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus have been detected [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/han/alert/2021/increasing-positive-mosquito-pools-human-case-under-investigation-072221.pdf] in New York City. The infected Culex pipiens and Cx. restuans mosquitoes were collected in all five boroughs. One suspected human
People dancing at Yalla! dance party in Brooklyn in 2019. (Image: Fabian Gomez/Yalla!) New York City’s vaunted nightlife scene seems to be moving in two directions at once. By many accounts, with pandemic restrictions lifted and the subway once again running 24 hours, night-time hotspots in Brooklyn and
real estate
Tenants were forced to vacate a three-story brownstone in Prospect Heights on Tuesday, July 20, after the building’s facade partially collapsed and destroyed the front stoop. An investigation by the city’s Department of Buildings (DOB) determined that a decorative stone arch above the front door of 626 Carlton