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Aug
02
Over 900 NYC classrooms serving the city’s youngest children have deteriorating lead paint, new data show

Over 900 NYC classrooms serving the city’s youngest children have deteriorating lead paint, new data show

PS 130 is listed among schools with lead paint in classrooms. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Reema Amin, Alex Zimmerman, Christina Veiga,
5 min read
Aug
01
Jaleesa Rudder Has Lupus And Needs A New Kidney – Can You Help?

Jaleesa Rudder Has Lupus And Needs A New Kidney – Can You Help?

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – On Christmas Eve in 2006, when Jaleesa Rudder was just 14-years-old, she went to the emergency
4 min read
Jul
31
Marine Park Puddles – A Tale Of Two Parks?

Marine Park Puddles – A Tale Of Two Parks?

MARINE PARK – Huge puddles continue to plague Marine Park – worrying residents after Mosquitoes infected with the West Nile Virus were
3 min read
Jul
25
Mayor de Blasio Works Out Despite YMCA Bomb Threat

Mayor de Blasio Works Out Despite YMCA Bomb Threat

PARK SLOPE – Two YMCA branches in the neighborhood were evacuated Wednesday morning after one received a bomb threat aimed at
1 min read
Jul
24
Dr. Fatima Husain On Being A Female Doctor In Male Dominated Field Of Urology

Dr. Fatima Husain On Being A Female Doctor In Male Dominated Field Of Urology

Dr. Fatima Husain. (Photo via Husain)PROSPECT HEIGHTS – When Dr. Fatima Husain entered an operating room for the first time
3 min read
Jul
18
How To Save Everyone: Doc who Saved Hundreds After Las Vegas Mass Shooting Trains Colleagues in Brooklyn

How To Save Everyone: Doc who Saved Hundreds After Las Vegas Mass Shooting Trains Colleagues in Brooklyn

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
4 min read
Jul
12
NYPD’s New Mental Health Task Force Needs to Add Meditation, Brooklyn BP Says

NYPD’s New Mental Health Task Force Needs to Add Meditation, Brooklyn BP Says

Borough President Eric Adams at the press conference standing next to PBA second vice president Joseph Alejandro (Image by Sam
4 min read
Jun
27
The Plaza At 300 Ashland To Host Outdoor Fitness Classes Monday Evenings

The Plaza At 300 Ashland To Host Outdoor Fitness Classes Monday Evenings

FORT GREENE – Next month, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/] will launch Movement Mondays, a series of free fitness
1 min read
Jun
13
“The only way we got through that first night was with my daughter on my chest” – Making Room For Fathers At Hospitals

“The only way we got through that first night was with my daughter on my chest” – Making Room For Fathers At Hospitals

FLATBUSH – My husband was snoring through my contractions, but that was OK with me. We’d gotten to Kings County
7 min read
Jun
07
NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center Opens Its Doors

NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center Opens Its Doors

SUNSET PARK – NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center opened its doors Friday morning for a tour showcasing state-of-the-art technologies
3 min read