COVID-19
By Yoav Gonen, Ann Choi, and Josefa Velasquez, originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/05/revamped-nursing-home-virus-death-tally-shows-surging-toll.html] . New York City’s running tally [https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf] of reported nursing home deaths leapt 47% to 2,785 as
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EAST NY – Cops arrested and punched a young man in the head for failing to social distance two days ago on a Brooklyn street. A viral video of the incident shows 20-year-old Stephon Scott on the ground as three cops handcuff him on Sunday. One cop– identified as Michael V.
Central Brooklyn
BAY RIDGE – The NYPD is looking for a man who forcibly touched an MTA employee at the subway station. On Saturday, April 11 at around 9:45 a.m., an on-duty 37-year-old MTA employee was cleaning a stationary R Train at the Bay Ridge-95th Street subway station. Then, a man
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Batya Goldberg. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)ISRAEL – Brooklyn’s passionate young conservative activist is no longer conservative. And she is no longer a Trump supporter. And she’s currently stuck in Israel during the coronavirus pandemic. Remember Batya Goldberg? We spoke with Goldberg, 19, in September of 2017 for a
Bay Ridge
By Virginia Breen, originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/05/comics-kin-sent-to-wrong-cemetery-after-nursing-home-death.html] Comedian Elayne Boosler says her elderly Jewish cousin, who died last month, inexplicably got saddled with a pricey Christian burial package while in a Brooklyn nursing home. “Now my beautiful Jewish cousin is clutching rosary
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Brooklyn building. Photo by Anthony Fomin [https://unsplash.com/@aginsbrook?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash. [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/brooklyn?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BROOKLYN – At 2 p.m. today, some tenants across the
Coney Island
Healthcare workers at Coney Island Hospital were treated today to 500 meals from Nick’s Lobster House. The record-breaking donation, the largest the hospital has received during the virus, was made by local attorney and community advocate Priscilla Consolo. Consolo was treated by the staff in the emergency department in
Central Brooklyn
BROOKLYN – Several local organizations have gotten together to launch four food carts that will give out free halal iftar meals to everyone during the month of Ramadan. Usually, for iftar, Muslims would break their fast at dusk inside the masjid. Some would gather around the table at home, but many
Boerum Hill
A rainbow drawing in the window of Jessica Miracola, a Crown Heights resident. Courtesy of Jessica Miracola.What may be the world’s purest movement – thousands of rainbows, drawn by hand and hung in windows for children and adults alike to seek out on their daily walks – is the subject
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerEAST FLATBUSH – A cyclist is dead after being sideswiped by an MTA bus on Tuesday. On April 28 at around 4:33 p.m., 67-year-old Tadeusz Czajkowski, a Greenpoint resident, was riding his bike heading northbound on Rogers Avenue in the right lane. According to the NYPD,
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Funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz in Williamsburg. Scott Stein/BklynerWILLIAMSBURG – About 2,500 people gathered on a Williamsburg street last night at a funeral for Rabbi Chaim Mertz who had died from the coronavirus. People were wearing masks, but there was absolutely no social distancing. At around 8 p.m.
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Ben Schaeffer. (Photo via TWU Local 100)MIDWOOD – Longtime community activist and MTA train conductor Benjamin Schaeffer, who once evacuated a train after someone poured gasoline on the floor of one of the cars, died yesterday from the coronavirus. He was 58. Schaeffer had been on the ventilator at Maimonides