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Free Mobile Covid-19 testing site in Ocean Hill Brooklyn on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)It’s Tuesday! It’s hot outside (again), so please remember to take care of yourselves and your neighbors. We also have some nice stories coming up this week and next,
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Free Mobile Covid-19 testing site in Ocean Hill Brooklyn on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)It’s finally Friday! Did you enjoy the rain this afternoon? We hope you are staying safe and wearing your face coverings when outside! * The Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law to
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MTA New York City Transit cleaning station entrances and elevator at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station on Wed., July 22, 2020 hours after the Occupy City Hall encampment was dispersed. (Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)It’s Thursday! We are already nearing the end of July–
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At the Cease Fire Peace March in Brooklyn over the weekend. (Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)It’s Wednesday, and yes, it’s still hot outside! Is there anything you feel we should be covering? Send us an email at editor@bklyner.com! * Almost a month after elections, Emily
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Photo via Hossam el-Hamalawy [https://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy/6359922733/in/photolist-aG1gse-aLmeUR-ooTq7U-o7CJxF-nAgrhU-5RWCwo-5S7668-8ZatUS-5Nk1kr-5PH6NT-nj1peY-nAuTVv-nj1hAZ-nAd1k4-igwTJ-nj1v5z-nAgj7b-nj1ykU-nj1tHj-nj1mLS-nAv5Wt-nyskAC-ejvPRP-nj1rTg-nAv8vA-nj1fTv-nAcY9R-nj1fj4-5NpgyW-nAgqsC-nysiQJ-nj1rnq-nAgfBq-nAcXNa-nCh7bK-nAgev7-5PH6cM-nAuV1X-nAuZte-nAgfzS-nj1kuq-nj1pco-nAuVWV-nysnCJ-nAuUbR-nCh8s2-nj1vwN-nAd6ec-nAgrGm-nj1vWL] /Flickr Creative Commons.BROOKLYN – Even though Palest
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Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitIt’s Tuesday! It’s still hot out so please remember to stay cool, hydrated, and check on your neighbors. * The Mayor and the city overstated parent responses on school reopening, we fact-checked. [/fact-check-mayor-and-the-city-overstated-parent-responses-on-school-reopening/] The city overstated both how many parents responded
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Lifeguarding for 4 years. Name not given. Photo by Erica Price/BklynerIt’s Monday! And it’s hot. Make sure to stay cool and hydrated. Drink lots of water. Check out this piece [/stay-hydrated-and-check-on-your-neighbors-in-this-heat-advisory/] about where to find cooling centers and how to save energy. * NYC has entered the last
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Black Lives Matter. (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.)Happy Friday! We hope your week was a great one. And we hope your weekend is even better. * Brooklyn Diocese closes two Catholic academies, leaves parents outraged and suspicious, we reported. [/brooklyn-diocese-closes-two-catholic-academies-leaves-parents-outraged-and-suspicious/] * A Brownsville school brings conversation of race inside the classroom,
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From this morning. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)It’s Thursday! We are still living in a pandemic so please be sure to continue wearing face coverings and keep a distance when around others. * To encourage residents to fill out the 2020 census and to raise awareness of the need for
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerIt’s Wednesday! Can you believe we are already halfway done with July? Where has the time gone? * TODAY is the deadline to file your taxes, or file for extension! * Six people were shot in Crown Heights this morning. One of them died, we reported. [/six-people-were-shot-in-crown-heights-this-morning-one-of-them-died/] * Because
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Photo by Erica Price/Bkyner.It’s Tuesday! There have been a lot of shootings taking place these past few days in our borough. We hope you are safe and well. * On Thursday, summer school rising 7th-grade students at Achievement First (AF) Endeavor school in Brooklyn [/students-at-brooklyn-middle-school-sent-home-with-insensitive-problem/] went home with
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Photo by Erica Price at Coney Island Beach.Happy Monday! The weekend was filled with shootings, deaths, and protests. We hope this week will be a good one. * A one-year-old baby boy was shot and killed at a cookout last night in Bed Stuy [/one-year-old-boy-shot-and-killed-at-cookout/]. Three other people were also