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Cocaine and heroin are a bit less “Brooklyn bound” thanks to the efforts of New York law enforcement. Yesterday, Attorney General Letitia James announced charges against seven individuals – five of them from Brooklyn – who are charged with 97 crimes connected with trafficking and distribution of cocaine and heroin, often mixed
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Media mogul Oprah Winfrey announced on Wednesday that her wellness tour, Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus, will visit nine arenas across the U.S., including Barclays Center, starting in January 2020. Via weightwatchers.com [https://www.weightwatchers.com/us/Oprah]“As I travel the country,
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PROSPECT PARK – September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month [http://ovarian.org/page-not-found/508-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month] and T.E.A.L. [https://tealwalk.org/] will once again host a 5K race and 2.5-mile walk this weekend to help raise awareness of the disease that will “take the lives of more than
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SUNSET PARK – The rooftop farmers of Brooklyn Grange [https://www.brooklyngrangefarm.com/] will open their third and largest outpost this Sunday atop the Liberty View building along the Sunset Park waterfront. Via Brooklyn Grange | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/events/2409923005736344/]The new 140,000-square-foot facility features a 55,000-square-foot
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Bill de Blasio announcing the public health emergency in April. (Ed Reed/ Mayoral Photography Office)WILLIAMSBURG – The measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, but a public health emergency was put in place in New York City in April as the disease spread across some Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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via Parks DepartmentCONEY ISLAND – Enjoy the Coney Island beach this weekend with fun-filled activities thanks to the Parks Department. There will be clinics and free play for volleyball, crossnet, flag football, ultimate frisbee and soccer, open to all ages. DATE: Saturday, August 3, 2019 TIMES:10 a.m. – 5 p.
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PS 130 is listed among schools with lead paint in classrooms. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Reema Amin, Alex Zimmerman, Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat NY More than 900 New York City elementary school classrooms have tested positive for lead after inspections revealed the presence of peeling, chipped, or otherwise deteriorating lead paint, according
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – On Christmas Eve in 2006, when Jaleesa Rudder was just 14-years-old, she went to the emergency room for a cold. She ended up diagnosed with lupus. Lupus is a [https://www.lupus.org/resources/what-is-lupus] “chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body
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MARINE PARK – Huge puddles continue to plague Marine Park – worrying residents after Mosquitoes infected with the West Nile Virus were detected nearby earlier this summer. Even though the Department of Health is taking steps to eradicate them, neighbors say what really needs to happen is fixing the puddles in the
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PARK SLOPE – Two YMCA branches in the neighborhood were evacuated Wednesday morning after one received a bomb threat aimed at Mayor Bill de Blasio who regularly exercises there. On Wednesday, July 24 at around 7:30 p.m., the YMCA Armory branch, which is located at 361 15th Street, got
Central Brooklyn
Dr. Fatima Husain. (Photo via Husain)PROSPECT HEIGHTS – When Dr. Fatima Husain entered an operating room for the first time in medical school, she passed out. These days, the sight of blood no longer makes her squirm. A urologist with NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Brooklyn [https://weillcornell.org/urology-at-newyork-presbyterian-medical-group-brooklyn] since April,
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FLATBUSH — On the night of the mass shooting [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/live-updates-two-people-are-dead-as-police-investigate] at the Las Vegas Harvest Festival in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and wounded several hundred, Dr. Kevin Menes was on duty at nearby Sunrise Hospital. [https://sunrisehospital.com/]There, Dr. Menes, a night