Business
Off Their Plate [https://offtheirplate.org/] is working to ease the overwhelming burden placed on both restaurant and hospital workers by the coronavirus pandemic, one $10 meal at a time. Started in Boston in mid-March by founder Natalie Guo, the volunteer-run national grassroots organization has been delivering thousands of what
Borough Park
Jayden Grant with his grandmother, Bessie Watson Grant, before the graduation ceremony began (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BOROUGH PARK— Jayden Grant, an 11-year-old boy who was recently hit by a stray bullet in Crown Heights, graduated from elementary school on Monday, at a bittersweet ceremony at the hospital where
community
Steven Cymbrowitz, Assemblyman for the 45th District, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce [http://www.ibrooklyn.com/] and the Sheepshead Bay Merchants Association will host the fourth annual Sheepshead Bay Summer Stroll and Lena Cymbrowitz Community Health Fair, a free event taking place along Sheepshead Bay Road with activities, food and
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Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanA man was killed in broad daylight today in a drive-by shooting in Borough Park. The 36-year-old victim was sitting in his van at around 12:20pm, at the intersection of 46th Street and New Utrecht Avenue, when a second car pulled up beside him and a
Central Brooklyn
Photo courtesy of Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’s OfficeAssemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz recently presented a $3 million check to Maimonides Medical Center [https://www.maimonidesmed.org/] to offset the cost of a new linear accelerator, a piece of equipment provides targeted radiation treatment for many forms of cancer and has saves countless
Health
Photo courtesy of Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’s OfficeAssemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz recently presented a $3 million check to Maimonides Medical Center [https://www.maimonidesmed.org/] to offset the cost of a new linear accelerator, a piece of equipment provides targeted radiation treatment for many forms of cancer and has saves countless
Bensonhurst
Photo courtesy of Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’s OfficeAssemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz recently presented a $3 million check to Maimonides Medical Center [https://www.maimonidesmed.org/] to offset the cost of a new linear accelerator, a piece of equipment provides targeted radiation treatment for many forms of cancer and has saves countless
Bensonhurst
Maimonides Administrator Areita Guy (right) leads the Mardi Gras Second Line Parade of survivors and their loved ones as they dance along to the music provided by the amazing band of Maimonides staffers. (Photo courtesy of Maimonides Medical Center)In honor of National Cancer Survivors Day, Maimonides Medical Center [https:
Central Brooklyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nUQ_5tdOyg The NYPD is looking for two suspects who attacked and robbed a man on Avenue M early Monday morning. The incident took place around 12:45am on Monday, December 28. A 55-year-old man, who Assembly member Dov Hikind identified as Eli, was
Central Brooklyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nUQ_5tdOyg The NYPD is looking for two suspects who attacked and robbed a man on Avenue M early Monday morning. The incident took place around 12:45am on Monday, December 28. A 55-year-old man, who Assembly member Dov Hikind identified as Eli, was
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brooklyn hospitals
Coney Island Hospital, 2601 Ocean Parkway. (Source: Gregory Maizous)Update [10/28/15]: A previous version of this article misstated the Summary Star Ratings of Coney Island Hospital and Maimonides Medical Center, based on information from Healthcare Finance News. Since its posting, the ratings on that site have been adjusted
budgets
Maimonides Medical Center. (Source: Google Maps)Maimonides Medical Center [http://www.maimonidesmed.org/Main/Home.aspx] — one of the borough’s most stable hospitals — is experiencing unusual mid-year losses, reports [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150803/HEALTH_CARE/150809992/one-of-brooklyns-most-stable-hospitals-reports-an-unusual-midyear#utm_medium=email&utm_source=cnyb-dailyalert&utm_campaign=
dynamic youth community
Local health service providers were in the spotlight on Sunday at the 12th annual Lena Cymbrowitz Community Health Fair, helping to raise funds for an area drug rehabilitation service. The event, organized by Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz in honor of his late wife, former Assemblywoman Lena Cymbrowitz, offered neighbors free health
910 McDonald Avenue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr5m7Rke8RM The 22-year-old man who was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center yesterday afternoon [/crime/person-rushed-to-hospital-after-a-fire-at-910-mcdonald-avenue] after accidentally setting himself on fire in the basement at 910 McDonald Avenue died today, ABC 7 reported [http://7online.com/news/good-samaritans-extinguish-man-on-fire-in-brooklyn/359822/] . The man, whose name has
3121 ocean ave
Well, there goes my dream of reopening the long-shuttered Beefsteak Charlie’s [/remember-when-beefsteak-charlies-filled-us-up/], sitting back, and wasting away the rest of my life with an endless supply of cocktail shrimp. After two attempts to get medical facilities off the ground, 3121 Ocean Avenue, the former home of Beefsteak Charlie’s,
anti-corruption
Source: assembly.state.ny.usAssemblyman Dov Hikind’s activities involving his radio show and Maimonides Medical Center is being investigated by the Moreland Commission. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-anti-corruption-commission-investigates-assemblyman-hilkind-article-1.1466804] that Hikind is being investigated for potential conflicts of interest and