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Students and faculty marching to Michelle Anderson’s house. Photo/ Dave Sanders. Brooklyn College students and staff joined together yesterday to demand President Michelle Anderson release a plan for the $58 million COVID relief fund for the institution. Faculty and students gathered in front of Brooklyn College on Bedford Ave
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Kim Meyer waits for customers in her new Cobble Hill restaurant, Kimpanadas. | Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITYBy Ann Choi, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/economy/2021/5/19/22444882/brooklyn-restaurant-renaissance-cooking-manhattan] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] [https://www.thecity.nyc/economy/2021/5/
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter at Phyl’s Academy in Brooklyn on March 23, 2021. (Image: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) By Briget Rein, current UFT employee and a candidate for New York City Council District 39. Throughout this pandemic, I have put my faith in
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Friends and Family Gathers and elected officials gather to honor the late Dr. Roy A Hastick Sr. Mukta Ahmad/BklynerFamily, friends, and elected officials gathered in front of Caton Flats – the 225 unit affordable housing project on the corner of Caton [/800-flatbush/] and Flatbush Avenues championed by Dr. Roy A
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You can get vaccinated at the American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, Manhattan as of late April, 2021. Credit; Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.If you want to get a vaccine, these days you can get it just about everywhere, including the Natural History Museum, no appointment
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Photo by Julie Ricard [https://unsplash.com/@jricard?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/brooklyn-nyc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Dr. Sanjiv S. Shah, Chief Medical Officer of MetroPlusHealth Before COVID,
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Like most of the city’s gathering spaces, worship centers for Jehovah’s Witnesses – a group with nearly 10,000 members in Brooklyn alone – closed their doors indefinitely last March. Since then, congregants have done most of the work of being a Witness at home, where they’ve gathered over
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By Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/14/22384266/brooklyn-high-school-paid-tutoring-covid] Brooklyn high school freshman Alandinio Cineas was stumped: the algebra assignment asked him to write and graph an equation showing how many different pieces of fruit he could buy with $15. As he worked from
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Photo by Jorge Salvador [https://unsplash.com/@jsshotz?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/dollars?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Allison Dikanovic and Josefa Velasquez, THE CITY. This article was originally
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Meisha Ross Porter at City Hall. By Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography OfficeBy Reema Amin and Amy Zimmer, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/8/22373503/de-blasio-nyc-school-closures-2-case-rule] Two unrelated cases of coronavirus among staff and students will no longer trigger building closures for New York City schools, Mayor
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Monday, March 22, 2021. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Alex Zimmerman and Reema Amin, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/5/22368832/opt-in-person-learning-nyc] The nation’s largest school system was among the first to throw open its doors. But it has struggled to entice most
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NYCHA vaccination site at Nostrand Houses in Brooklyn on Friday, February 12, 2021. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeBy Brian Benjamin, Roxanne Persaud, and Kitaw Demissie, MD, PhD New York City is one of the most racially diverse cities in the world – it’s what makes our city incomparable to all