Announcements
Photo via OneBlood.FLORIDA – Sure Bklyner covers Brooklyn stories, but this story was too important to pass up. Zainab Mughal, an adorable two-year-old needs blood to survive. The catch? The blood she’s looking for is rare. Could you be her match? Zainab has an aggressive form of cancer called
Central Brooklyn
NYC Health + Hospitals [http://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/hospitals/] launches series of retro social media images to remind New Yorkers ages 50-75 to get a colonoscopy. Photo via NYC Health + HospitalsNYC Health + Hospitals [http://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/hospitals/] launched its annual Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month reminder to New Yorkers ages 50-75,
Central Brooklyn
March is officially Colon Cancer Awareness Month [https://www.ccalliance.org/awareness-month/] and The Brooklyn Hospital Center [http://www.tbh.org/] would like you to get screened for the highly preventable and detectable disease. According to the American Cancer Society [https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/about/what-is-colorectal-cancer.html] , “most
Education
The plaque at P.S. 10 in Caleb’s Garden. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The P.S. 10 community honored the memory of student Caleb Sande [/blog/tag/caleb-sande/] this morning with a memorial plaque that was unveiled in an area now named Caleb’s Garden. Caleb
Abraham Lincoln High School
Seth Kushner’s wife, Terra (Left), with their son Jackson, holding a replica of the new street sign with Seth’s mom, Linda. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)More than 100 people gathered at the corner of Shore Parkway and Hubbard Street Sunday for the street co-naming ceremony honoring Seth
american italian cancer foundation
Image courtesy of Community Board 14Thanks to Community Board 14 [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/], we learned that the American-Italian Cancer Foundation’s mobile, no-cost breast cancer screening program is coming to the Flatbush Caton Market [http://www.flatbushcatonmarket.com/] (located at Flatbush and Caton Avenues) this Friday, July 31 from
american italian cancer foundation
Image via Councilman Mathieu Eugene [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204182342780508&set=a.2199020736769.2113360.1284800710&type=1&theater] Any neighbor who is 40 years old or older can receive a free digital mammogram and clinical breast exam this Sunday, May 10 from 9am-4:30pm
cancer
Coney Island Hospital [http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/coneyisland/html/home/home.shtml] is offering two free public seminars on colon cancer this month, featuring expert guidance on one of the most lethal – yet most treatable – cancer conditions. Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the
ave u
Source: Youtube/ UCmpxSOmTlTdsvBbTfF3hbBwThe doorman from Avenue U who won the $5 million jackpot [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2013/08/local-lottery-winner-battling-cancer/] died from lung cancer last week. Richie Randazzo, who had been battling the disease for over a year, died on November 14 at age 50. His funeral mass will be
Baruch College
The Checkmate, Cancer! team with Nancy Parmar (Source: GoFundMe)Way back in March, we told you about Elona Karafin, then a 19-year-old Bensonhurst native and cancer survivor who kicked off “Checkmate, Cancer!” [/checkmate-cancer-will-participate-in-the-19th-annual-pcf-walkathon/], an initiative to fund research for pediatric cancer. Karafin, who was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a
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Randazzo with his Swedish model ex-girlfriend (Source: biglotterywinners.com)A doorman hailing from Gravesend, who struck it rich playing the lottery, is battling lung cancer. The New York Post is reporting [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/luck_of_draw_pw5R7WRXtkbz8rHvsMCK9I] that Richie Randazzo has been fighting his
cancer
When disasters strike, the call to donate blood is immediate and necessary, but it’s equally as important to ensure that our community supply remains at a steady level throughout the year. Families across the city depend on these donations as they face what is oftentimes their darkest hour, and
cancer
Source: Dank Depot via FlickrIn the 1980s, New York was one of the first states in the nation to legalize medical marijuana, running the program for nearly a decade before it was shut down. State Senator Diane Savino, of Staten Island and Coney Island, plans to introduce a bill to
cancer
From the offices of Congressman Michael Grimm: BROOKLYN, NY – Today, Rep. Michael G. Grimm (R,C-Brooklyn/S.I.) and State Senator Marty Golden (R,C,I – Brooklyn) sent a letter to Community Board 10 Chairwoman Joanne Seminara in support of naming the northeast corner of 5th Avenue and 85th Street
cancer
Dan Foster, the cancer survivor and Gerritsen Beach resident who organizes the neighborhood’s annual “Fun Run” to raise money for cancer research, will kick off this year’s event tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. All the details are in the flier above, and Dan also sent us the
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Source: Arthur Tress via DailyDOCUMERICAThis photograph depicts the old incineration plant and landfill dump at Gravesend Bay. The site is currently at the center of a major Bensonhurst environmental debate. For over 30 years, the dump burned NYC garbage without a permit. It was finally shut down in the mid-90’