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Attendees at a virtual Community Board 13 meeting on Wednesday voiced opposition to a planned shelter at 100 Neptune Avenue.Over 300 people joined a virtual community meeting Wednesday night to discuss a planned Brighton Beach shelter; seemingly all of them left unsatisfied. At the two-hour virtual meeting, which was
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Yesterday, October 1, the Health Department issued a new Commissioner’s Order [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/covid/covid-19-closure-authorization-order.pdf] giving city agencies the power to issue closure orders to businesses for repeat non-compliance with State and local COVID-19 health and safety requirements. There are now 11
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The Numbers – the city’s Department of Health (DOH) has switched how they are releasing the data they are disseminating, so the numbers from today cannot be directly compared to previous numbers we have reported as these numbers are averaged over the last 14 days. Here’s from DOH: “COVID-19
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Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island to pack food packages for senior citizens ahead of Rosh Hashanah, on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeThis summer, much of Southern Brooklyn defied COVID-19 related rules, and a lot of life went on
Animals
Parts of Bergen Beach, Canarsie, Flatlands, Georgetown, Mill Basin, Mill Island, and Paerdegat Basin will be sprayed down with pesticides to reduce the number of mosquitoes that may be carrying West Nile Virus. Department of Health (DOH) will be spraying very low concentrations of DeltaGard® and/or Anvil® using trucks,
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250 Ashland Place Studio Apartment. Courtesy of The Ashland.The Ashland at 250 Ashland Place [https://www.ashlandmiddleincome.com/?utm_source=bklyner&utm_medium=sponsored_post] is now leasing middle income affordable housing in the heart of downtown Brooklyn. This luxury residential tower is located in the emerging Brooklyn
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SOUTH BROOKLYN — At a town hall [/mayors-promises-sheepshead-last-nights-town-hall/] in Sheepshead Bay back in September 2017, Mayor de Blasio promised a $10 million initiative that would provide homeowners in Southern Brooklyn with free sewage cut-off valves. However, it seems that the mayor misspoke. That money would be coming from state funds, not
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BENSONHURST —Trash sticks to Southern Brooklyn’s streets like gum on a shoe. Every year, residents call 311 about dirty streets, averaging a steady 57.5 complaints a month over the past three years in Bensonhurst, according to NYC Open Data. While Bensonhurst is not the dirtiest area in the
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One week before the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and local and federal officials spoke about the inevitability of climate change at a town hall meeting on Climate and Resiliency at the Kingsborough Community College in Manhattan Beach. About 80 residents gathered to listen and voice their
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A mini food pantry by a Brooklyn Temple. Liena Zagare/BklynerBAY RIDGE/ DYKER HEIGHTS – Whether your business has three bagels left at the end of the day, or your grocery store has an extra box of radishes, or your restaurant has leftovers from a catering order, you now can easily
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Cortelyou Road by Antonio M Rosario.The Last Stand of Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-york-underground-railroad-house] – A rowhouse with a storied history is facing demolition (Atlas Obscura) The Brooklyn Heights Promenade Was a Robert Moses Head Fake [http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/the-secret-story-of-the-brooklyn-heights-promenade.html] – Thomas
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBy Councilman Justin Brannan and Jane Martin-Lavaud We all know someone who has been impacted by traffic violence — someone who has been killed or injured by a car or truck driver on a street in New York City. Some of us have personally experienced this loss – we
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Surviving in New York isn’t easy, especially if you have a career in the arts. Emily Cordes, a 32-year-old resident of Ditmas Park and an actress, can attest to this. Along with auditioning and performing, Cordes also works as a part-time fundraiser and marketer for a performing arts institution
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Photo Credit: Avi GlicksteinAs a parent of two young kids, I’ve got limited time – and energy – for shopping and cooking. So I’m always on the lookout for ways to make getting those things done a little easier. As such, I’ve experimented with a variety of grocery-delivery and
Announcements
The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and BuzzFeed have launched One Book, One New York – where New Yorkers get to pick the ONE BOOK they all want to read together.VOTE here [https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/trackclk/N30602.2768209BKLYNER/B22439483.242298506;dc_trk_aid=439498965;dc_trk_
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BAY RIDGE — Hours before the proposed MTA toll hike, Gov. Andrew Cuomo found $6 million to ensure Staten Islanders maintain the $5.50 special residence rate to cross the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge, leaving their Brooklyn neighbors out in the cold, again. Staten Islanders who participate in the MTA Rebate Program [https: