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The internet. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – In a time where New Yorkers need access to the internet more than ever, the city will be accelerating broadband internet deployment in all five boroughs in an effort to connect 600,000 underserved people to jobs, training, education, mental health supports, and
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BROOKLYN – Summer is finally here! After months of quarantine, the Mayor announced that beaches will be opening on July 1. He also announced the expansion of Cool It! NYC, a plan to help New Yorkers beat the heat this summer. The Wall Street Journal broke the story [https://www.wsj.
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Photo via Simcha Eichenstein’s office.BORO PARK/MIDWOOD – The weather is getting nicer and kids are getting restless staying inside their homes. While public parks are open, playgrounds remain closed and there is no set date when the Mayor is planning to open them. But, some locals are not
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Brooklyn Protest – George Floyd – on May 29. By Adrian Childress/BklynerBROOKLYN – The murder of George Floyd, an innocent Black man, by a cop in Minnesota has caused unrest all throughout the country, including right here in Brooklyn. [/last-night-in-brooklyn-tonight-in-brooklyn-people-are-rising-up-against-injustice/] Police, who were supposed to protect protesters, have instead aggressively shoved, hit
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Mark Treyger. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – Council Member Mark Treyger is calling on the City to provide public and private employees with at least two weeks of paid sick leave for anyone who’s believed to be sick with the coronavirus. This morning, Treyger sent a letter to Mayor
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Construction at Greenpoint Landing continues apace, with a second tower rising next to One Blue Slip. Paul Stremple/Bklyner.WILLIAMSBURG/GREENPOINT/PARK SLOPE — Rezoning gentrified the rezoned neighborhoods and displaced communities of color, a new study shows. The study, [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc0429de5717c7ff1caead0/t/5de6c0e683bec649d37ab0cc/1575403753814/Zoning+and+
affordable housing
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBEDFORD STUYVESANT – Homeless activists and VOCAL-NY [http://www.vocal-ny.org/] stood outside a luxury apartment building– which the City has deemed offers mostly “affordable” housing — to protest how un-affordable it actually is. 348 Nostrand Avenue is a residential building that sits on Nostrand Avenue near the corner
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Photographer/Mayoral Photography OfficePARK SLOPE – Four months after announcing his run for the 46th president [/park-slope-neighbor-runs-for-president/] of the United States, our Park Slope neighbor Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this morning that he is out of the race. “It’s clearly not my time,” he said on Morning Joe. [https:
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Mayor Bill de Blasio during a rally against anti-Semitism at Kingsway Jewish Center (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)The NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC) was officially launched today to help with the increase in hate crimes the city has been experiencing. Just last week, a 63-year-old Jewish
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK – About a thousand cyclists lay down on the ground next to their bikes and loved ones Tuesday evening for a die-in to protest the 15 preventable bicycling deaths in NYC just this year. “Some people say that there are too many people on bikes
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Repairs to the Sheepshead Bay Court houses damaged in Hurricane Sandy have been a long time coming (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Friday, November 3, is the last opportunity for residents to submit comments on the proposed grant [http://www.nyc.gov/html/cdbg/html/proposed/action_plan_amendments.shtml]
Bushwick
A couple e-bikes outside a local deli. Small businesses all across the city employ delivery rides on e-bikes (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last week, Mayor De Blasio announced [https://www.facebook.com/NYCMayor/videos/10155618175616166/] that in 2018, enforcement against e-bikes in New York City would be ramped up, as they
community
Photo: Gerry O’BrienThe 48th District has one Republican and one Democrat– Marat Filler [https://www.maratfiller.com/]–running against the incumbent Chaim Deutsch [/?s=chaim+deutsch]. Steven Saperstein [http://saperstein2017.com/] is the Republican candidate vying to represent Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Homecrest, Trump Village, Luna Park,
Bensonhurst
Spotted in Park Slope by Tom PendergastFrom our inbox this weekend: I was in Bartel Pritchard Square and this vehicle just appeared. I approached the driver to ask who and why was he parked here.He said, in garbled English that he had read De Blasio and Lander were bragging
Central Brooklyn
Richard Basher, Mayoral candidate. (Photo by Tom Sullivan)Many politicians aspire to run for higher office, but it’s new territory for 30-year Brooklyn resident, Richard Bashner, who will be on the NYC mayoral ballot this Fall as a Democrat. “To do this difficult job correctly, a mayor must focus
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By Mayor Bill de Blasio A few weeks ago I met a man from the South Bronx named Wellington. He was diagnosed with cancer and lost his health insurance. The City of New York fought for him and discovered he was entitled to free health coverage. Within a few days