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Shutterstock via ForbesIn a diary entry from January 1927, Anais Nin [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/07/anais-nin-author-social-media] wrote, “I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
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Salimata Zonon works as a home health aide for Partners in Care. Every morning she wakes up at 5:30am to go from Brownsville, Brooklyn to Manhattan to take care of Rita Asen, 94 her only client. Photo by Claire Molloy/BKLYNER BROWNSVILLE/UPPER WEST SIDE – Salimata “Sali” Zonon, 55,
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NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Starting Monday, December 18, NYCHA and NYC Health will offer free lead testing for children across the city, following revelations that proper inspections hadn’t been carried out in city housing since 2012. [/nycha-chair-answers-city-council-lack-lead-testing-public-housing-developments/] Testing will be available to children who
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Dr. Diane Davis, clinical director of the Fatherhood Program, and Alan Dorvil, case manager for the program, at the Brooklyn Community Services office in Coney Island. November 8th, 2017.CONEY ISLAND – There’s a new program in Brooklyn helping men be better fathers—and challenging traditional notions of masculinity in
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CROWN HEIGHTS – Following Tuesday’s City Council hearing where NYCHA’s Chair was questioned about the agency’s failure to properly conduct lead paint inspections [/nycha-chair-answers-city-council-lack-lead-testing-public-housing-developments/] in thousands of public housing apartments, NYS Senator Jesse Hamilton [https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/articles/jesse-hamilton/free-lead-testing-children-december-2017-january-2018] (District 20) announced free lead tests
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The City Council held a hearing on Tuesday to grill NYCHA Chair, Shola Olatoye, about the agency’s failure to properly conduct lead paint inspections in thousands of public housing apartments. Red Hook Houses (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)NYCHA did not conduct inspections between 2012 to 2016 in 55,000
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PROSPECT PARK – More than 5,000 runners crossed the finish line at Saturday’s 30th annual New York Road Runners Jingle Bell Jog [http://www.nyrr.org/races-and-events/2017/nyrr-jingle-bell-jog-5k] 5K race around Prospect Park. PS 107 5th grade Rising New York Road Runners Ryder White and Maddie Philo with
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via EcoMaids of New YorkCleanliness may be next to godliness, but it sure isn’t easy. Especially if you have kids or pets. And it might not even be that safe. The Environmental Working Group [https://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners/content/cleaners_and_health#.Wh71drQ-e8p] did a study of
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CLINTON HILL – At an event kicking off a $7 million initiative to promote urban farming education in Brooklyn classrooms, Borough President Eric Adams joined students of Clinton Hill’s PS 56 Lewis H. Latimer and Urban Assembly Unison School on Tuesday to tour the site of a “future state-of-the-art greenhouse.
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PROSPECT PARK – Early this coming Saturday, over 6,000 runners of all ages will fill Prospect Park with the sounds holidays – from jingle bells attached to their sneakers. After crossing the finish line, all runners will get to enjoy hot chocolate and holiday-themed bagels. The registration is sold out, but
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New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. (Photo: Eric T. Schneiderman [https://www.facebook.com/eric.schneiderman/photos/a.438189636273087.1073741826.289949387763780/631569633601752/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)The cost of 85 of the 86 forensic rape exams performed on sexual assault survivors by the Brooklyn Hospital Medical center from
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The [https://www.tbh.org/]Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) [https://www.tbh.org/] and Mount Sinai Heart [http://www.mountsinai.org/care/heart] hosted a breakfast reception on November 16, to celebrate a clinical collaboration that provides access to comprehensive cardiac care in Downtown Brooklyn. The alliance makes it possible