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Mar
29
When NYPD Takes Kids’ Phones, They’re Disconnecting a Pandemic Lifeline

When NYPD Takes Kids’ Phones, They’re Disconnecting a Pandemic Lifeline

Photo by James Sutton [https://unsplash.com/@jamessutton_photography?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText]
8 min read
Mar
26
Happy Passover from Bklyner!

Happy Passover from Bklyner!

Image via Wikimedia Commons.Bklyner wishes a zissen Pesach to all Brooklynites who celebrate! Passover, which begins at sundown on
1 min read
Mar
26
Easter Egg Hunts Around Brooklyn

Easter Egg Hunts Around Brooklyn

Easter is on Sunday, April 4th this year! After spending last year’s Easter at home, we know you’re
3 min read
Mar
26
BAM Guest Curator Hanif Abdurraqib Releases Essay Collection on Black Performance

BAM Guest Curator Hanif Abdurraqib Releases Essay Collection on Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib. Photo credit: Megan Leigh Barnard. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In his new essay collection, ‘A Little Devil in America: Notes in
3 min read
Mar
26
NYPD Promises More Plain Clothes Cops To Combat Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

NYPD Promises More Plain Clothes Cops To Combat Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

Photo via NYPDYesterday, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea met with Brooklyn’s Asian community in Sunset Park to talk about the
4 min read
Mar
26
Controversial Neptune Ave Shelter Site To Get Both New Owner And New Provider

Controversial Neptune Ave Shelter Site To Get Both New Owner And New Provider

100 Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach, the site of a planned 170-bed shelter. (Image from Google Maps)A well-known service
4 min read
Mar
26
39 Community Leaders Endorse Doug Schneider In D39 Race

39 Community Leaders Endorse Doug Schneider In D39 Race

This morning Park Slope civil rights lawyer and Democratic District Leader Doug Schneider [https://dougschneiderbk.com/meet-doug/] announced his campaign
3 min read
Mar
25
Open Culture Program Brings Live Events to Brooklyn Streets

Open Culture Program Brings Live Events to Brooklyn Streets

Performers at Dock Street between Front Street and Water Street, Brooklyn. Photo by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.This Spring,
4 min read
Mar
25
Boris Noble Drops Out of Sheepshead Bay Council Race

Boris Noble Drops Out of Sheepshead Bay Council Race

Boris Noble (Image: campaign)Boris Noble dropped out of the race for the District 48 Council seat in southern Brooklyn
3 min read
Mar
25
Brooklyn’s Mirimus A Winner in XPRIZE Covid Testing Competition

Brooklyn’s Mirimus A Winner in XPRIZE Covid Testing Competition

The CEO Prem Premsrirut in the lab. Courtesy of Mirimus.Brooklyn-based company Mirimus, Inc. [http://mirimus.com/] was recently named
3 min read