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Caption: Comedian Derek Gaines (@thegreatboy) performs at a recent @takeitoutsidecomedy show in Bed Stuy. Photo courtesy of JT Anderson (@jtcanshoot).On a recent luke-warm night, in an undisclosed outdoor location in Brooklyn, an audience of a little over a hundred people sat on an expanse of concrete steps and watched
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Pincus OrlanderMy great-great-uncle, Rabbi Levi Yitchok Gruenwald, fled Vienna after the Anschluss in 1938 and came to New York City with my grandparents where he started his own congregation. His Williamsburg-based synagogue included a yeshiva with dual curriculum within its education system, focusing on the faith as well as skills
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Photo by Element5 Digital on UnsplashI spent the hours from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. yesterday, like so many New York public school parents, on Zoom calls for two of my kids’ schools, growing increasingly frustrated at being forced to make a choice with little information
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Caption: Darren Tomasso (left) leads a fitness class in Dumbo. Photo courtesy of Darren Tomasso.Gyms are gone, and we don’t know when they’re coming back. But that’s not stopping Brooklyn residents from finding other ways of staying in shape. Gym rats, now without a home, are
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Cyclists ride over the Queensboro Bridge, Aug. 3, 2020. | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Jose Martinez, originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/8/5/21356349/two-wheel-traffic-up-on-bridges-but-city-cant-expand-bike-lanes] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] Even with many New Yorkers staying home during the pandemic, growing legions of bicyclists are pedaling over
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When you look at the map of State Senate districts that crisscross Brooklyn, what shapes do you see? Does Senate District 20, which winds its way from Brownsville to Sunset Park, look more like a backhoe or a bioluminescent fish? Does the bizarre tail, sometimes no more than a block
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Photo by Ben Mullins [https://unsplash.com/@benmullins?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/school-test?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Amy Zimmer and Reema Amin, originally published in Chalkbeat New York
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APolice_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] CYPRESS HILLS/STARRETT CITY – Two motorcyclists are dead after crashing into cars in a span of just 11 hours in the same 75th Precinct. First on Sunday, August 2 at around 2:10 a.
Announcements
Back in May when the MTA began its enhanced cleaning of buses. (Photo: Trent Reeves / Metropolitan Transportation Authority)BROOKLYN – Draft of the Brooklyn Bus Network Redesign – a look at how well the current network serves, and where improvements could be made – was supposed to be released on June 30, but
Announcements
This is from Eid 2019, during a time where there was no pandemic. (Todd Maisel/ Bklyner)BROOKLYN – A pandemic will not stop Muslims from celebrating Eid al-Adha tomorrow, Friday, July 31. Eid al-Adha is also referred to as the Festival of the Sacrifice and is observed after the completion of
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Photo by Charles Deluvio on UnsplashI have lost count how many hours this summer I have devoted to zoom calls and group chat conversations with fellow parents about how each of my three kids’ schools is planning for reopening. It approaches full-time employment. The list of questions unanswered stretches down
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NYPD announced the arrest of Hason Rink, 41, of Wingate. Rink was arrested and charged yesterday, July 28, at the 73rd Precinct with murder, attempted murder, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon (loaded gun) in the July 2 shooting in front of 41 New Lots Avenue which