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May
01
Tenants Demand Rent Cancelation For At Least Four Months, #RentStrike

Tenants Demand Rent Cancelation For At Least Four Months, #RentStrike

Brooklyn building. Photo by Anthony Fomin [https://unsplash.com/@aginsbrook?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=
4 min read
May
01
Brooklyn Briefing 5/1: Another Crowded Boro Park Funeral & New Open Streets

Brooklyn Briefing 5/1: Another Crowded Boro Park Funeral & New Open Streets

Oranges at the Campaign Against Hunger food pantry in Brooklyn. (Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)It’s Friday and
2 min read
Apr
30
Briefing 4/30: Dead Bodies In U-Haul Trucks, Man Stealing Stimulus Checks & More

Briefing 4/30: Dead Bodies In U-Haul Trucks, Man Stealing Stimulus Checks & More

Our heroes. (Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)Good morning! It’s the last day of April. We hope next
2 min read
Apr
30
National Park Service Pledges To Reopen Floyd Bennett Field To Gardeners

National Park Service Pledges To Reopen Floyd Bennett Field To Gardeners

Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, April 27, 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Jose Martinez and Gabriel Sandoval, Originally
3 min read
Apr
29
Williamsburg Funeral Draws Large Crowds & No Social Distancing

Williamsburg Funeral Draws Large Crowds & No Social Distancing

Funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz in Williamsburg. Scott Stein/BklynerWILLIAMSBURG – About 2,500 people gathered on a Williamsburg street last
3 min read
Apr
29
Train Conductor Hero Ben Schaeffer Dies From The Coronavirus

Train Conductor Hero Ben Schaeffer Dies From The Coronavirus

Ben Schaeffer. (Photo via TWU Local 100)MIDWOOD – Longtime community activist and MTA train conductor Benjamin Schaeffer, who once evacuated
2 min read
Apr
29
Brooklyn Underground Yeshivas Flout PAUSE Rules, Parents Charge

Brooklyn Underground Yeshivas Flout PAUSE Rules, Parents Charge

Borough Park parents said a yeshiva was still being run out of a building on 48th Street during the coronavirus
3 min read
Apr
29
Immigrant Workers and the Nonprofits That Serve Them Are in Overdrive

Immigrant Workers and the Nonprofits That Serve Them Are in Overdrive

Members of the WJP women’s committee sewing face masks. Courtesy of WJP.The Day Laborer Workforce Initiative held a
3 min read
Apr
29
Briefing 4/29: About 2,500 Mourners At Funeral, Another Cafe Shut Down & Mental Health Hotline Available

Briefing 4/29: About 2,500 Mourners At Funeral, Another Cafe Shut Down & Mental Health Hotline Available

Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds teams conduct a flyover New York City to honor medical workers. (Photo: Michael
2 min read
Apr
28
Hope in the Time of Coronavirus

Hope in the Time of Coronavirus

Photo by Rachel Silberstein/ BklynerThis is one of those moments when you realize you are not in control. You are
2 min read