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J.H.S. 259 William McKinley, 7301 Fort Hamilton Pkwy, Bay Ridge (Photo via Google Maps)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Devastating Fire Destroys Marine Park Family’s Home. [Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/
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PS 217 Unity rally, Monday, January 30. (Photo via Audrey Walen)This week, local parents are using the schoolyard to support for the scores of immigrant families at two Ditmas Park elementary schools, following a slew of executive orders this week banning refugees from entering the U.S [/demonstrators-gather-cadman-plaza-emergency-hearing-immigration-ban/]. P.
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Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. (Courtesy: Flickr / Kelly Millea)Students and parents across the city received a letter [http://schools.nyc.gov/AboutUs/schools/ChancellorLetteronImmigration.htm] yesterday assuring them that the Department of Education will protect the right of all students, regardless of their immigration status, to
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Little Scholars Childcare Center [http://littlescholarsnyc.com] is pleased to announce their Grand Opening of their third location. Little Scholars Childcare CenterLocated at The WAVE on 104 West End Avenue in Manhattan Beach, this brand new facility accommodates children aged 6 months through 5 years with full and half day
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The 8th graders at I.S. 98, the Bay Academy on Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, have just won $5,000 and Best in State among all middle school teams in the Verizon Innovative Learning app challenge [https://appchallenge.tsaweb.org/]. (Brooklyn Tech team took the prize among the High
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360 Neptune Avenue (Photo via Ilite Realty)Leases are filling up fast at 360 Neptune Avenue between Brighton 1st and Brighton 3rd Streets — the biggest being Touro College, which is set to move into two floors of the modern building by the end of January. The Touro College & University
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Officer Malone explaining the training process. Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.In the community affairs room of the 61st Precinct on Wednesday night, three officers in tan-colored uniforms set up a big screen, a projector, and a tabletop full of modified weapons to have community members go through situations
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There haven’t big any big protests in Sunset Park or Bay Ridge yet, but here is an image from a rally held in Brooklyn Heights this weekend in response to swastika graffiti found on a children’s playground. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER [/check-your-hate-senator-squadron-beastie-boys-ad-rock-lead-rally-after-hate-graffiti-found-at-adam-yauch-park/] )According to a letter sent
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A group shot of Assemblymembers and library staff at a funding celebration at the Central Library this morning. (Photo by Gregg Richards)New York State Assemblymembers have determined bringing video game consoles (and other technology) to every Brooklyn Public Library branch is high priority, and have secured $3 million in
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The New York Times published a lovely short piece yesterday on P.S. 160, highlighting the challenges many schools in our neighborhood share: > This is a school of immigrants, in a city of immigrants, in a country of immigrants. > P.S. 160, the William T. Sampson school, sits
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Joe Miccio in his firefighting days. Photo via Butler Associates PR.“The thing about a pawn is that they’re brave. They may be small, but they never run away. They only move forward,” said Joe Miccio. Miccio is a Sheepshead Bay native, a retired firefighter and police officer, and
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Photo via the Hebrew Language Academy’s webisteA new charter school is headed for southern Brooklyn. Hebrew Language Academy 2 will open its doors to early elementary students in the fall of 2017. This is the latest charter school for Hebrew Public Charter Schools, which already has two schools in