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Meisha Ross Porter at City Hall. By Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography OfficeBy Reema Amin and Amy Zimmer, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/8/22373503/de-blasio-nyc-school-closures-2-case-rule] Two unrelated cases of coronavirus among staff and students will no longer trigger building closures for New York City schools, Mayor
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Monday, March 22, 2021. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Alex Zimmerman and Reema Amin, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/5/22368832/opt-in-person-learning-nyc] The nation’s largest school system was among the first to throw open its doors. But it has struggled to entice most
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NYCHA vaccination site at Nostrand Houses in Brooklyn on Friday, February 12, 2021. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeBy Brian Benjamin, Roxanne Persaud, and Kitaw Demissie, MD, PhD New York City is one of the most racially diverse cities in the world – it’s what makes our city incomparable to all
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Governor Cuomo. Darren McGee- Office of Governor Andrew CuomoGovernor Cuomo announced today that New Yorkers over the age of 30 will be eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine starting tomorrow. In addition, on April 6, residents over the age of 16 will be eligible for the vaccine, making eligibility universally
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New CityMD location at 6528 18th Ave. By CityMD.A second CityMD [https://www.citymd.com/] site opened in Bensonhurst yesterday at 6528 18th Ave, corner of 66th Street. The urgent care offers X-ray and EKG, in addition to other diagnostic equipment to treat minor injuries and medical complaints can
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The CEO Prem Premsrirut in the lab. Courtesy of Mirimus.Brooklyn-based company Mirimus, Inc. [http://mirimus.com/] was recently named one of five winners in the XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing competition, a national competition for those who are working to advance COVID-19 testing. Mirimus has been awarded a $500,000
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Porter announced this morning that, starting this fall, the City will expand the free 3-K For All to as many families as possible in the remaining sixteen school districts. Mayor Bill de Blasio Chancellor Porter at Phyl’s Academy in Brooklyn to announce 3K
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Meisha Porter, New York City Schools Chancellor. Image courtesy of NYC Department of Education.By Meisha Porter, New York City Schools Chancellor This week, I began leading the nation’s largest public school system. A school system that serves more than 1 million students—including, many years ago, me! I
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Salimata Zonon works as a home health aide. Every morning she wakes up at 5:30am to go from Brownsville, Brooklyn to Manhattan to take her daughter Jasmine to school. She then travels to the Upper West Side to take care of Rita Asen, 94 her only client. We told
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Images of some of the New Yorkers lost to the pandemic were projected onto the Brooklyn Bridge during the COVID-19 Day of Remembrance ceremony (Image: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)The city paid tribute to some of the 30,000 New Yorkers who lost their lives to the coronavirus by
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Courtesy of Marvel Architects/SCAPE Landscape ArchitectsBy Michelle de la Uz A recent opinion piece by several Gowanus residents [/opinion-welcome-to-gowanus-green-brooklyns-own-love-canal/] opposed to affordable housing development in their neighborhood, unfortunately, continued a pattern of dangerously misleading rhetoric about the Gowanus Green development. As a 43-year old nonprofit comprehensive community development corporation
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Protestors gathered outside Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in East Flatbush on Thursday, March 11th, 2021. (Image: Billy Richling)Several dozen activists, hospital staff and clergy gathered outside Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in East Flatbush on Thursday to demand the state abandon its plan to transform the struggling hospital. One Brooklyn