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A collection of 6 issues

Annual Street Festivals Driven Indoors By Rain Sunday

Rain forced the Kings Bay Y to move their annual Israel Celebration indoors. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Two annual outdoor street festivals, the Kings Bay Y’s Israel Celebration [/thousands-come-to-celebrate-israel-on-nostrand-avenue-with-kings-bay-y-photos/] and the Lena Cymbrowitz Community Health Fair [/12th-annual-lena-cymbrowitz-health-fair-spotlights-communitys-health-services/] , were driven indoors Sunday by foul weather. Rain seems to be

Heroin Task Force Tackles Stigma: “Nobody Wants A Treatment Center In Their Backyard”

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Heroin Task Force Tackles Stigma In Dyker Heights: “Nobody Wants A Treatment Center In Their Backyard”

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12th Annual Lena Cymbrowitz Health Fair Spotlights Community’s Health Services

Local health service providers were in the spotlight on Sunday at the 12th annual Lena Cymbrowitz Community Health Fair, helping to raise funds for an area drug rehabilitation service. The event, organized by Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz in honor of his late wife, former Assemblywoman Lena Cymbrowitz, offered neighbors free health

Tomorrow Night: “Stand Against Drugs” Town Hall At Kings Bay Y

Source: Group Health Cooperative / YouTubeThe Kings Bay Y and Dynamic Youth Community are inviting the community to attend a “Stand Against Drugs” town hall meeting tomorrow evening, January 22, 7:00pm at the Kings Bay Y, 3495 Nostrand Avenue. Doors open at 6:30pm. Part of an initiative that has

Midwood Rehab Center Sounded Early Alarm On Heroin Abuse, Now Tackling It By Radio

Dynamic’s Brooklyn facility at 1830 Coney Island Avenue. (Source: DYCInc.org)The associate director of a Midwood-based drug rehabilitation and counseling center said she was among the first to sound the alarm about an impending spike in heroin abuse in the community, and now the group is turning to