district 14

Announcements

North Brooklyn Schools Awarded $25,000 Grants for Individually Determined Programs

NORTH BROOKLYN – Twenty-one schools in North Brooklyn will receive grant money this year to support school-determined initiatives ranging from science and tech to literacy and the arts, courtesy of a development company’s philanthropic offshoot. The $350,000 being awarded among the schools is courtesy of the Neighborhood School Grants

Central Brooklyn

5 Health Facts To Know About Our Neighborhood

Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Sarah Crean)Residents in our area are relatively healthy when it comes to a 2015 analysis of New Yorkers by neighborhood — but there is major room for improvement. Department of Health data released last year [http://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/QuickView.aspx] found that we are