Announcements
“Don’t bring this check to the bank,” Chaim Deutsch joked. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MARINE PARK – Every year Altice USA [http://alticeusa.com/] (the provider of Optimum and Suddenlink) holds an essay contest. To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, the company presents a question in the Fall and asks middle
Announcements
GOWANUS – The city’s styrofoam ban went into effect Tuesday, January 1, 2019, a law reaching as far back as 2007 with fourth and fifth graders from Brooklyn leading the charge. Students from PS 15 in Red Hook joined the mayor and other public officials at the Hamilton Avenue Marine
Announcements
CARROLL GARDENS – Borough President Eric Adams honored Emma’s Torch on Thursday with a “Hero of the Month” award. The award goes to individuals saving lives in a variety of ways throughout the borough. Adams has doled out tributes to Brooklyn heroes from the NYPD officers [http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/
Education
High school student experts and education policy adult experts on a panel last night at the Brooklyn Public Library. By DJ Cashmere/BklynerPROSPECT HEIGHTS – “We are here today because we are tired of this conversation being one-sided. It’s always been about what the adults think the students need. But
Bed Stuy
P.S. 25 Eubie Blake School [/tag/p-s-25/]By Alex Zimmerman [https://www.chalkbeat.org/author/azimmerman/] of Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/11/28/after-contentious-fight-success-academy-middle-school-will-be-allowed-to-open-alongside-brooklyns-p-s-25/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] BEDFORD STUYVESANT – The city’s education policy panel gave a
Cobble Hill
COBBLE HILL – Dozens of fourth graders at Success Academy Cobble Hill participated in the school’s first-ever Empty Bowls fundraiser to help feed hungry New Yorkers. Success Academy Cobble Hill Empty Bowls Event (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) Success Academy Cobble Hill Empty Bowls Event (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) Success Academy
Central Brooklyn
Pedestrians walk the streets of East Flatbush, Brooklyn in October 2018. Photo by Larisa Karr/BklynerDanni Ai dug feverishly with her bare hands through a barrel of medical waste in a restricted part of the hospital. She had just given birth, her daughter was dead and medical personnel had accidentally
Education
Families from Community Roots Charter School in Brooklyn hold a bake sale. ChalkbeatBy Reema Amin, Chalkbeat When Susan Moesker’s son started sixth grade five years ago at Boerum Hill School for International Studies in Brooklyn, there was no active PTA. The school, she said, “has a wonderful and diverse
Borough Park
BOROUGH PARK/WILLIAMSBURG – NYC Department of Health reports that the number of measles cases has risen to 17, up from 7 last week, and that the highly infectious disease has spread from the Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg to Borough Park. The children affected range in age from 7 months
Borough Park
KENSINGTON – Boro Park’s booming Orthodox Jewish community is spilling over the borders of the neighborhood, bringing with it new religious schools and new tensions with neighbors at the sleepy end of Kensington. The big new school that opened on the corner of Clara Street and 36th Street last fall
Education
BAY RIDGE/BENSONHURST/SUNSET PARK/KENSINGTON – The October 17 meeting of Community Education Council for District 20, which stretches from Bay Ridge, to Kensington, and includes southern parts of Sunset Park and Bensonhurst, was a loud and passionate affair. NYC Department of Education presented to parents its plan to reform
canarsie
Malcolm Pinckney/NYC ParksCANARSIE – The cracked concrete patch is no more. The ground was broken this morning on a $3.8 million renovation of the I.S. 68 Playground, which was first opened in 1965 and is officially known as Bildersee Playground. NYC Parks Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Martin Maher, City