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Late summer fruit in Midwood. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Happy Monday! Today is the last day of August. Labor Day is next week. Schools are getting ready to open on September 10. * Concern and frustration over lack of detail on school reopening worry Southern Brooklyn parents and educators, we reported.
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Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BROOKLYN – Three fatal shootings took place over the weekend across the
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Isaiah Benloss. (Photo via his family)FLATBUSH – Isaiah Benloss, 18, was in a Lyft car coming back home to his family after spending the night at his friend’s house. The car was just a three-minute drive away from his home in Flatbush when the crash occurred [/early-morning-car-crash-on-ocean-avenue-beverly-leaves-two-injured/]. Around 3:
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Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.BROOKLYN – Three months ago, it was announced that through a federal relief effort, the state was approved to disperse the Coronavirus Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer or P-EBT. The program would automatically send families the equivalent of about $5.70 per day, or a total
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Anayat’s Halal Grill is located at 2238 Bath Avenue. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BATH BEACH – Anayat’s Halal Grill isn’t even a month old and it already has fans. The small new take-out restaurant is located on Bath Avenue between Bay 31st and Bay 32nd Streets, right next
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City officials encouraged neighbors to get tested in Sunset Park last week. (Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.)Happy Monday! Lots happened over the weekend. There was crime, and then there was a wedding at the BLM mural on Fulton. Gyms open next week and museums are starting to open
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BROOKLYN – Schools are now able to use parks and streets as part of a new ‘Outdoor Learning’ initiative unveiled this morning by Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor Richard Carranza. The Outdoor Learning initiative for the 2020-2021 school year will allow schools to hold classes
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Last years Brooklyn Book Festival. Photo by James Hyde.The Covid-19 pandemic has a slew of canceled events in its wake. Graduations, concerts, birthday parties— all have fallen victim over the last few months. The Brooklyn Book Festival [https://brooklynbookfestival.org/] (BBF) was determined to be different. Was there ever
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Ditmas Park Bubble is a new event space in Ditmas Park. (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)DITMAS PARK – As thousands of small businesses close as the result of the restrictions imposed to combat COVID-19, one Brooklynite decided to take a chance, and create an event space tailored to the pandemic – meet
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Volunteers working on the octopus mural at P.S. 54 in 2019. Courtesy of Lauren Cawdrey.Two years ago, on a whim, Bed-Stuy resident Lauren Cawdrey decided to buy Willoughby General [https://www.willoughbygeneral.com/], a small storefront near the Myrtle – Willoughby subway station. The space had been left suddenly
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COVID-19 testing outreach workers in Sunset Park. (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)Happy Tuesday! 100 years ago today, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women’s right to vote, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it. We hope you are doing well. Remember, we
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A torn up car after the crash on Ocean Avenue and Beverly Road. (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)FLATBUSH – An early morning car crash on Ocean Avenue and Beverly Road has left two people in the hospital, with one in very serious condition. In the month of July alone, there were