Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – At the lobby of the Brooklyn College Library, lies a new exhibit celebrating Brooklyn’s diversity and immigrant life. The various panels tell the stories of immigrants in their own words. It’s called “We are Brooklyn.” [https://wearebrooklyn.org/] “Here we are in one of
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – The Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC)/ Brooklyn College Presents was shut down last week and employees were fired without notice, Bklyner has learned. Sources at BCBC tell Bklyner the firings came as a surprise and that Brooklyn College cited budgetary reasons.
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Jumaane Williams and Cynthia Nixon. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)FLATBUSH – Gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon and Council Member Jumaane Williams, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, spoke about their platforms and answered a few questions at Brooklyn College this afternoon. Nixon and Williams announced their endorsement of each other at the end of
Arts & Culture
David Z Modern Musician Program was created for the purpose of providing young musicians with the necessary tools to design and actualize their unique artistic backgrounds through a mixture of private lessons, weekly band practice (The Band) and a school-year-long training of music industry and marketing essentials (Musician’s Workshop)
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – When Corrinne Greene was in kindergarten, she asked her principal to add “This Land Is Your Land” to the school’s patriotic selections list, which the principal did. Nearly two decades later, Greene has organized and participated in many protests. She has chanted outside Governor Andrew
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FLATBUSH – There’s a pedestrian plaza coming to Hillel Place from Kenilworth Place to Flatbush Avenue! The plaza will be located across the new entrance of the Tow Center for the Performing Arts. [/the-hillel-gate-entrance-to-the-brooklyn-college-opens-monday/] Construction has already begun, and the roads have been closed for good and construction is expected
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Photo: Brooklyn CollegeFLATBUSH – The Hillel Gate entrance on Campus Road that opens on Monday will be the easternmost access to the campus, located at the entrance of Tow Center for the Performing Arts, which was originally expected to open back in 2014 but has faced a mix of delays. Rendering
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Brooklyn College Library. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)FLATBUSH – Tuition is going up, the faculty is fearing more cuts, and facilities not in direct public view are crumbling. Students are demanding full, proper funding. Students of the City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university system in the US
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Photo: Women’s MarchStudents, faculty, staff, and parents from schools all across Brooklyn are participating in a National School Walkout next Wednesday, March 14 at 10 am to protest gun violence. The walkout will last 17 minutes to honor the 17 victims of Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
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SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Two millennial cousins have created a gender-neutral clothing brand, Beau Novo [https://beaunovo.com/], aimed at representing everyone. Beau Novo stands for “new man.” One day, Bobby Vincent Bruno (a marketing student at Brooklyn College) and Brian ‘Sene’ Marc (an actor, model, and musician) met a young lady
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Photo: Brooklyn CollegeFLATBUSH – Dr. Laurie Rubel published an article in the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education [http://ed-osprey.gsu.edu/ojs/index.php/JUME/article/view/324/222] about how we teach math in schools, and the right-wing media is out to get her. The article explores equity-directed instructional practices
Events
On October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy [/86074-superstorm-sandy-anniversary-southern-brooklyn-sheepshead-bay/] caused the deaths of 43 New York City residents and caused $19 billion in economic damage. The storm had a devastating impact on the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront and Southern Brooklyn, along with the East and South Shores of Staten Island, Southern Queens and lower