Central Brooklyn
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
COVID-19
Lights on late at Erasmus High in Flatbush. Liena Zagare/BklynerMayor Bill de Blasio announced the closure of the city’s public schools this afternoon, citing that the city reached a 3% 7-day average infection rate, which was set back in June as a trigger for closing the public school
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Chayil Hyland, a senior at Food and Finance High School, is learning remotely this year from her Queens Village kitchen. Courtesy of Chayil HylandBy Colleen Connolly, originally published in Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/11/10/21558856/nyc-culinary-high-school-remote-learning-cooking-pandemic] Standing in her Brooklyn kitchen, knife in hand, 16-year-old
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Infection rates citywide have doubled in October, and they keep rising at an alarming rate. “Unfortunately, we’re seeing a real growth in the positivity rate in this city and that is dangerous. So, we have one last chance to stop a second wave. It’s as simple as this
Central Brooklyn
Success Academy students at the “Slam the Exam” pep rally held at the Barclays Center in 2018. (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)By Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York Success Academy, the city’s largest charter school network, will extend all-remote learning through at least March of 2021, the network announced Friday.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo announced earlier today in a call with reporters that the red and yellow zones in Brooklyn will be reduced in size by 50 %. The red cluster is now concentrated along the length of Ocean Parkway and in Midwood. The yellow zone now is between New Utrecht and
COVID-19
Photo by Mika Baumeister [https://unsplash.com/@mbaumi?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/covid?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Reema Amin, Originally published on Chalkbeat New York The incident raises
Central Brooklyn
Lights on late at Erasmus High School in Flatbush. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Reema Amin, originally published by Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/11/5/21551220/january-regents-exams-canceled-ny] Officials said the January exams cannot be offered safely or fairly this year. The state education department has canceled New York’
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Photo by Element5 Digital [https://unsplash.com/@element5digital?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] BROOKLYN – Borough President Eric Adams, who has an eye on Mayor’s
COVID-19
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today in a call with the press that all schools in the red and orange zones can open as long as ‘everybody’ is tested before returning to school, and only those testing negative for COVID19 are allowed back in. The regimen will then require that 25%
Education
Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability with Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. City Hall. Monday, October 26, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.“So far, we’ve had 280,000 kids who have attended school in-person,” Mayor Bill De Blasio said this morning. There are about 1.1
Borough Park
The ultra-Orthodox community in New York is experiencing a second wave of COVID-19 infections after losing hundreds of members in the first wave. The lack of compliance with public health guidance has brought renewed tragedy. Many people are pointing fingers at the community for their failure to comply and to