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Jun
04
We Remember: A Community COVID Memorial At Green-Wood Cemetery

We Remember: A Community COVID Memorial At Green-Wood Cemetery

Since the May of last year, Naming the Lost [https://namingthelost.com/memorials/] Memorials, a small team of volunteers has
2 min read
Jun
03
Southern Brooklyn’s Ongoing COVID Suffering Shows Toll of Disinformation and Disconnection

Southern Brooklyn’s Ongoing COVID Suffering Shows Toll of Disinformation and Disconnection

In a city celebrating a vaccine-powered decline in COVID cases, the southern shore of Brooklyn stands out as a landscape of extended suffering and loss.
7 min read
May
27
Brooklyn College Students and Faculty Demand Release of the COVID Stimulus Funds

Brooklyn College Students and Faculty Demand Release of the COVID Stimulus Funds

Students and faculty marching to Michelle Anderson’s house. Photo/ Dave Sanders. Brooklyn College students and staff joined together yesterday
5 min read
May
26
Brooklyn Restaurant Renaissance is Cooking, Poised to Overtake Manhattan as City’s Food Capital

Brooklyn Restaurant Renaissance is Cooking, Poised to Overtake Manhattan as City’s Food Capital

Kim Meyer waits for customers in her new Cobble Hill restaurant, Kimpanadas. | Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITYBy Ann Choi, THE
3 min read
May
21
Opinion: I’m A Teacher and I Think It’s Time to Reopen the Schools

Opinion: I’m A Teacher and I Think It’s Time to Reopen the Schools

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter at Phyl’s Academy in Brooklyn on March 23, 2021. (Image:
3 min read
May
10
Community Leaders Remember Dr. Roy A. Hastick, Sr. With A Flatbush Street Co-Naming

Community Leaders Remember Dr. Roy A. Hastick, Sr. With A Flatbush Street Co-Naming

Friends and Family Gathers and elected officials gather to honor the late Dr. Roy A Hastick Sr. Mukta Ahmad/BklynerFamily,
3 min read
May
07
Indoor, Outdoor, Exotic, Music-Filled Vaccination Sites

Indoor, Outdoor, Exotic, Music-Filled Vaccination Sites

You can get vaccinated at the American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, Manhattan as of late April,
2 min read
May
07
Opinion: What We Can Do This Spring to have a Maskless Summer

Opinion: What We Can Do This Spring to have a Maskless Summer

Photo by Julie Ricard [https://unsplash.com/@jricard?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on
5 min read
Apr
20
A Year Without Knocking: Jehovah’s Witnesses Connect With Neighbors

A Year Without Knocking: Jehovah’s Witnesses Connect With Neighbors

Like most of the city’s gathering spaces, worship centers for Jehovah’s Witnesses – a group with nearly 10,000
5 min read
Apr
15
COVID hit this Brooklyn high school hard. Paying students to tutor their peers is helping them get through it.

COVID hit this Brooklyn high school hard. Paying students to tutor their peers is helping them get through it.

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
9 min read