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BNA Holding Rescheduled Workshop With DFTA On “Senior Benefits”

BNA’s office inside the Chase Bank at 1002 Brighton Beach Avenue. Source: Google MapsIn an event that had to be rescheduled to a later date [/friday-bna-holds-meeting-on-senior-benefits-and-housing/], the Brighton Neighborhood Association (BNA) will be hosting a “Senior Benefits [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=554501414583182&set=a.218145488218778.61589.

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Local Pols: “It’s About Time” For City-Funded Asian Senior Center

An HCS-organized senior health fair earlier this month. (Source: HCS)We told you on Tuesday about the Bensonhurst annex of the Homecrest Community Services [http://homecrest.org/] senior center, and that it is now the first publicly-funded senior center focused on the unique needs of the Asian-American community [/senior-center-servicing-bensonhursts-booming-asian-population-to-receive-public-funding/] . On

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Budget Cuts Could Close Seven Local Senior Centers

Source: Jhawk/FlickrThe poor state of our economy doesn’t discriminate – it could hurt our senior citizens next. [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/albany-budget-cuts-imperil-senior-centers-city-warns/?ref=nyregion] Seven local senior centers are in danger of closing as part of system-wide cuts that’ll see 105 centers shuttered across