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Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on UnsplashWhat is the City doing to improve and serve and teach the vast majority of students who will be at home trying to get instruction? That was the question that both Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza dodged and did not answer today
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Fewer people have been getting tested since the big pre-Thanksgiving rush in the city, and Brooklyn at large is no longer an outlier – our numbers are steadily going up. Of the 18,455 Brooklyn resident test results, 646 were reported positive yesterday, or 3.5%. New York City’s current
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Photo by Kelly Sikkema [https://unsplash.com/@kellysikkema?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/remote-learning?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Reema Amin, Chalkbeat New York In a major shift for the
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Legislation legalizing electric-powered bicycles and scooters went into effect [https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/ebikes.shtml?fbclid=IwAR1Ct9akTcl2UVxKFJje3PFgaaU-nhJW8pV73BEBQm09QYwOhnFzyxfwiNo] on Monday, November 23rd. The new rules represent a major victory for advocates who see e-bikes and e-scooters as a safer, pandemic-friendly alternative to private cars and who saw
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In Brooklyn, 18,642 people got tested, and 453 or 2.4% tested positive for COVID-19, 7-day rolling average is at 2.3%, still the second-lowest rate in the city for the most populous borough. In the Yellow-zone, the infection rate is at 4.12% on 7-day rolling, a number
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Industry CityThis holiday season, there will be two skating rinks in Sunset Park. Industry City’s Ice Rink will be increased from last year’s size and open every Thursday – Sunday from November 27th to March 1st * Thursday: 4:00 – 8:00 pm * Friday: 12:00 – 8:00 pm * Saturday:
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Bed-Stuy Strong volunteer Natalia Paez has been organizing neighborhood clean-ups since August. Photo by Zoe Grueskin/BklynerAs the coronavirus spread through New York this spring, shuttering schools and businesses, mutual aid groups of “neighbors helping neighbors” sprang up [/kensington-windsor-terrace-mutual-aid/] around the city [/solidarity-not-charity-flatbush-united-mutual-aid/]. More than eight months later, many mutual
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Dianne Morales. (Photo via Morales’s campaign)Dianne Morales, an Afro-Latina woman and a Brooklyn native, officially launched her campaign for the NYC Mayor in the 2021 election last night. This is her first time running for any political office. “When I think back to the moments in my lifetime
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Blackout in Mill Basin, July 21, 2019 (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)Con Edison is facing $25 million in penalties and possible license revocation from the NYS Public Service Commission because of the massive power outages in Manhattan and Brooklyn last year, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced. In July of 2019, Con
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By Josefa Velasquez, Rachel Holliday Smith, and Greg B. Smith, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/coronavirus/2020/11/19/21578783/new-york-hospitals-brace-for-covid-wave] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] As the number of COVID-19 cases nationally reaches new heights [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54966531]
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Statewide Positivity Rate is 2.72%, NYC is 2.53%, and Brooklyn is at 2.4%, second-lowest in the city and holding steady. 7-day positivity in Brooklyn is 2.2%. Statewide, 32 people died from COVID-19 yesterday, of whom 7 in NYC and of those, 4 in Brooklyn. For the
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Brooklyn, we should be proud. All that mask-wearing and distance keeping and following annoying restrictions mean we are at a 2.2% infection rate, against the city’s 2.5% or 3.00% 7-day averages (first one from Governor, Second from Mayor). Governor eliminated the Brooklyn Orange zone today, turning