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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerIt’s Friday! How do we feel about welcoming the weekend with a good old storm? Please stay safe and indoors! * Tropical Storm Fay is here! It is expected to be windy and rain all day today until 2 a.m. Saturday. The City has also issued
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Photo by Erica Price/BklynerIt’s Thursday! The sky is blue, the sun is shining, and it is HOT outside. Then again its almost mid July and we are heading into heatwave season, and storm season. Need to cool off? Beaches are open as are cooling centers. Don’t forget
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Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. (Photo by Erica Price/Bklyner)It’s Wednesday! Some days it is rainy and windy. Other days, we sweat too much. We keep thinking about the beach. How have your days been going? Have a story you want to share? Please reach out! * There
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For David, who is in nursing school, this will be his last year as a lifeguard in Coney Island. (Photo: Erica Price/Bklyner)It’s Tuesday. Can you believe how quickly the first week of July passed by? We hope you’re staying safe and well. And if there are
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First day of Lifeguards on duty at NYC beaches during NYC’s phase 2 re-opening during the coronavirus pandemic, on July 1st, 2020 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. (Photo by Erica Price)It’s a rainy evening! It’s the perfect breeze, the sound of thunder, and rain.
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Humayun Butt. (Photo via his family)BRIGHTON BEACH – Humayun Butt was a dad to four children. He was a grandpa to eight. And he was a father figure to many. He loved to laugh. He would make his wife chai for breakfast every morning. At the end of March, he
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Jonathan (not pictured), a Navy vet who’s currently based out of Brooklyn, originally from South Carolina, has set up the flags numerous times on the pier in Coney Island since 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. Photo by Erica Price/BklynerThis year has been something else – it has broken our hearts,
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerThe month of June has finally ended and we are now in July! The coronavirus pandemic is still out there, so please continue to wear face coverings and keep a distance. * Emergency personnel are currently on scene of a building collapse at Court Street & Union Street
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A small business with a Black Lives Matter sign on its doors. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)It’s the last day of June! We hope July brings you lots of happiness and peace. And we hope we can get back to some sort of normal. * The coronavirus death toll drops
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Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the site of the Brooklyn Black Lives Matter mural. Joralemon Street, Brooklyn. Friday, June 26, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.It’s finally Friday! The school is over for public school students across NYC! We hope you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend.
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Mama Falcon visits her baby chicks atop the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Bridge on Wed., May 21, 2020, where Chris Nadareski examines and applies tracking bands to new peregrine falcons that have hatched in a nest built atop the structure for them. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityIt’s Thursday! We took a
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Barber shops are now open! (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) It’s Wednesday! The weather is beautiful outside. Please remember to keep wearing face-covering when outside and keep a distance. * There were 292 new positive confirmed coronavirus cases in NYC, compared to the 331 cases from yesterday. There were