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Sep
24
Gravesend/Homecrest at 6.0% COVID Infection Rate, Southern BK above 3%, City Threatens Localized Restrictions

Gravesend/Homecrest at 6.0% COVID Infection Rate, Southern BK above 3%, City Threatens Localized Restrictions

Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography OfficeFollowing the closure of two Yeshivas [/two-yeshivas-shut-down-amid-coronavirus-spike-in-southern-brooklyn/] (undisclosed) by the City’s Department of Health (DOH)
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Sep
22
URGENT: Cases Triple In Ocean Parkway Cluster, Williamsburg, City Worries About Increase Community Transmission

URGENT: Cases Triple In Ocean Parkway Cluster, Williamsburg, City Worries About Increase Community Transmission

Via NYC DOH [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-recent.page]We just received an email from the NYC
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Sep
21
Brooklyn Yeshivas Blow NYC-Set Deadlines on Bolstering Secular Studies

Brooklyn Yeshivas Blow NYC-Set Deadlines on Bolstering Secular Studies

Sheindy Weichman, who says her son is being deprived of a secular education | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Reuven Blau and
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Sep
16
The New Breadline Starts On Your Phone: Masbia Soup Kitchen Serves Food With Dignity

The New Breadline Starts On Your Phone: Masbia Soup Kitchen Serves Food With Dignity

A woman checking in for her scheduled appointment via the Plentiful app. Keira Wingate/BklynerAt the height of the COVID-19
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Sep
04
Politicians Urge City To Remove Small Residential Buildings From Tax Lien Sale, Scheduled For Sept. 4

Politicians Urge City To Remove Small Residential Buildings From Tax Lien Sale, Scheduled For Sept. 4

Via Center for NYC Neighborhoods [https://cnycn.org/nyc-tax-lien-sale/]UPDATE: Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Finance Commissioner Jacques
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Sep
01
Mosquitoes To Be Sprayed In Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Heights Sept. 3

Mosquitoes To Be Sprayed In Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Heights Sept. 3

Brooklyn is getting the second adulticide treatment this summer, this time focusing on Park Slope, Windsor Terrace and areas around
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Aug
14
How One Child’s Artwork Brought Hope to a Devastated Brooklyn Business

How One Child’s Artwork Brought Hope to a Devastated Brooklyn Business

Bradberry in Boro Park, Aziza MirtalipovaBy Aziza Mirtalipova, employee at Breadberry When the ceiling came down in the Breadberry supermarket
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Jul
30
Luxury Affordable Housing in the Heart of Downtown Brooklyn

Luxury Affordable Housing in the Heart of Downtown Brooklyn

250 Ashland Place Studio Apartment. Courtesy of The Ashland.The Ashland at 250 Ashland Place [https://www.ashlandmiddleincome.com/?utm_
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Jul
10
Brooklyn Elected Officials Need to Stand up for Secular Education in Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas (OPINION)

Brooklyn Elected Officials Need to Stand up for Secular Education in Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas (OPINION)

Naftuli Moster.By Naftuli Moster Imagine being in a college-level biology class and hearing the word “molecule” for the very
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Jun
16
Local Pols Cut Locks on Playgrounds, Mayor Says Not So Fast

Local Pols Cut Locks on Playgrounds, Mayor Says Not So Fast

Photo via Simcha Eichenstein’s office.BORO PARK/MIDWOOD – The weather is getting nicer and kids are getting restless staying
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