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Mar
27
Data Shows Central, Southern Brooklyn Hard Hit By Coronavirus

Data Shows Central, Southern Brooklyn Hard Hit By Coronavirus

Central and Southern Brooklyn have Brooklyn’s highest shares of patients testing positive for the coronavirus, new data released by
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Mar
27
Restaurant Owners Organize To Fight For Their Businesses

Restaurant Owners Organize To Fight For Their Businesses

On Thursday of last week, Greg Baxtrom and Max Katzenberg, the owners and operators of Brooklyn’s Olmsted [http://olmstednyc.
3 min read
Mar
27
Plan In Works To Expand Free NYC School Meals To Adults, Too

Plan In Works To Expand Free NYC School Meals To Adults, Too

NYC School lunch. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Greg B. Smith, Originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.
3 min read
Mar
27
Internet Providers Blocked Families With Unpaid Bills From Remote Learning Deals

Internet Providers Blocked Families With Unpaid Bills From Remote Learning Deals

Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability on COVID-19. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Originally posted on Chalkbeat
4 min read
Mar
27
A Murder, Stabbing & Two Assaults

A Murder, Stabbing & Two Assaults

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerCROWN HEIGHTS – A 21-year-old is dead and cops are investigating it as a homicide. On Thursday, March
2 min read
Mar
27
Home Births In Demand As Hospitals Shut Partners Out Of NYC Delivery Rooms

Home Births In Demand As Hospitals Shut Partners Out Of NYC Delivery Rooms

New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)By Reuven Blau, originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.
4 min read
Mar
26
The Young Are Volunteering More As Those Over 50 Told To Stay Home

The Young Are Volunteering More As Those Over 50 Told To Stay Home

Volunteers before the coronavirus, when they were allowed to touch one another. (Photo via MAS Youth Center)BROOKLYN – As the
6 min read
Mar
26
Reporters Are Not Invincible. Get Well Soon!

Reporters Are Not Invincible. Get Well Soon!

Todd Maisel at work. Liena Zagare/BklynerThe last time I saw photojournalist extraordinaire and Marine Park neighbor Todd Maisel in
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Mar
26
Players Don’t Listen, De Blasio Removes Basketball Hoops From 80 Locations

Players Don’t Listen, De Blasio Removes Basketball Hoops From 80 Locations

Removed basketball hoop at St. Andrew’s Playground on the corner of Atlantic Ave. and Kingston Ave. Curtis Brodner/BklynerMayor
2 min read
Mar
25
Social Distancing Forces Piano Tutors To Rethink Teaching

Social Distancing Forces Piano Tutors To Rethink Teaching

CLINTON HILL – Sarah Dutcher sits at her dark wood Yamaha grand piano and looks to her right. A webcam captures
3 min read