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A collection of 16 issues

Thank You For Your Service: 8 Nursing Staff Members Student Debt To Be Paid Off

The Brooklyn Hospital Center. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Eight nursing staff members at The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) will be able to pay off their student debt thanks to a $400,000 gift from the staff at Alger [https://www.alger.com/Pages/Home.aspx], an investment firm.

North Brooklyn Community Unites for Hurricane Irma Relief

BUSHWICK – The North Brooklyn community is rallying to help those affected by Hurricane Irma, holding a relief drive that is running through the weekend and ending Tuesday, September 26. The group is accepting donations of socks, bug spray, hygiene products, baby formula, diapers and snacks to be sent to Florida

Tables of Contents – Williamsburg Restaurant Teams Up With Brooklyn Book Festival For A Culinary Reading Event

WILLIAMSBURG – Working away in the kitchen of his restaurant, Egg, [http://www.eggrestaurant.com/] most weekends, Chef Evan Hanczor has never made it to the Brooklyn Book Festival [http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/]. But this year, a taste of the event is coming to him: next Wednesday, September 13, Egg is

Where To Donate Toys, Clothes, And Food In Southern Brooklyn This Holiday Season

Reaching-Out Community Services’ 7th Annual Operation Christmas Smiles brought joy to 700 Brooklyn kids. (Photo via RCS-Reaching Out Community Services [https://www.facebook.com/ReachingOutCommunityServices/photos/a.425349337190.206475.349822832190/10151150093582191/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)As great as it feels to get, it feels even better to give. While

Ivanka Trump Donates $1K To Fundraiser Honoring 7 Children Killed In Midwood Fire Last Year

(Photo via Rafael Lopez Jr. / RLJRNews.com)Ivanka Trump, entrepreneur, author, and daughter of present-elect Donald Trump, made a tax-deductible $1,000 donation to a Gofundme campaign [https://www.gofundme.com/the-sassoon-7-project] honoring seven children who died in a hot-plate fire in Midwood last year. [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2015/

Here’s How You Can Help Ecuadorian Earthquake Victims

Red Cross volunteers aid victims of Ecuador’s May 16 earthquake (Image via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/26409477582/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz4Wq-afHwkp-afLhJG-afLhFb-7GzET3-9pyEbn-c8mauu-7GvPrK-7GQxtS-7K5Whx-7GLAFD-7GQxDh-Gkwc6Q-7GLB6z-FqUqWh-7GLApg-99LuME-wPg5eC-FsqpVU-GeHtAo-FXLcf5-FsqpTj-FXLcn9-FXLcjo-GeHtBA-GeHtH7-GnSBCH-FsAX8c-FXLcmY-qdV8fs-GkzDJ3-GnSBEM-FsqpXN-FsAX4p-FXLcjd/] ). [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/25896906034/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz

Dog-Eared From The Dogs Days Of Summer? Donate Your Books For Local Library Sales

Photo by Park Slope StoopMaybe you don’t need to use that extra copy of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom as a door-stop anymore? Have your family members sent you 10 copies of Cat In The Hat? Ready to part with your CD of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Donate A New Backpack At The Brooklyn Public Library

It’s almost time for school to start again and there are many children throughout Brooklyn who don’t have a home to go to, let alone a bag to hold their books. The Coalition for the Homeless [http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/] is teaming up with the Brooklyn Public Library

How To Honor The Memory Of 2-Year-Old Neighbor Greta Greene, ‘A Bright Light To All Who Knew Her’

Greta Greene. Photo courtesy of the Greene familyFollowing the devastating death of 2-year-old neighbor Greta Greene [/crime/community-mourns-death-of-2-year-old-neighbor-greta-greene-who-was-hit-by-falling-bricks-on-upper-west-side] , who lived with her parents, Stacy and Jayson Greene, in Kensington, just across the border from Ditmas Park, we’ve been flooded with emails from neighbors who want to know how they

CB 2 Narrowly Approves Greenmarket Expansion on Washington Park

The Fort Greene Park Greenmarket will expand north on Washington Park. (Photo by Francisco Daum [https://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/])The Fort Greene Park Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/brooklyn/fort-greene] will soon expand north on Washington Park, following a close vote last night by Community Board 2.