COVID-19
NYCHA vaccination site at Nostrand Houses in Brooklyn on Friday, February 12, 2021. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeThe slow rollout of vaccines is frustrating community advocates across the borough. The elderly and frail were supposed to be a priority group, especially in communities hard hit by the pandemic. However, according
bath beach
Brittany Ramos DeBarros (Image: Campaign)Representative Nicole Malliotakis has been in Congress for less than two months. But she’s already facing a progressive challenge for her seat. Brittany Ramos DeBarros [https://www.brittanyforcongress.org/], a 32-year-old Army veteran who spent a year in Afghanistan, announced on Thursday that she
Central Brooklyn
Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. City Hall. Thursday, February 18, 2021. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.The NYC Department of Health (DOH) says we should double mask when possible to increase protection against COVID-19. The new guidance [https:
Bed Stuy
Councilmember Roberty Cornegy (D-Brooklyn) calls for greater police accountability during a press conference in Foley Square, June 2, 2020. | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYClaudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/2/17/22288694/robert-cornegy-office-complaint] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] Employees were
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Kelly Sikkema [https://unsplash.com/@kellysikkema?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/remote-learning?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/2/
Central Brooklyn
Mayor Bill de Blasio at City Hall. Tuesday, February 2, 2021. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.When Bay Ridge resident Paullette Ha Healy learned that Paul Forbes, the Department of Education’s (DOE) executive director of Educational Equity, Anti-Bias, and Diversity, was leaving his position [https://nypost.com/2021/
Bensonhurst
A line forms outside Masbia’s Borough Park location in May 2020. (Image: Alexander Rapaport/Masbia)Masbia, the Borough Park-based soup kitchen and food pantry network [https://www.masbia.org/] that distributes kosher hot meals and emergency food packages, announced yesterday it would double the size of its Brooklyn locations.
Announcements
Brooklyn councilmembers Brad Lander and Antonio Reynoso have partnered before, advocating for reforms across the city over the last eight years in the city council. Now, term-limited, they seek to become the city’s next Comptroller and Brooklyn Borough President, respectively, and are endorsing each other, the two progressive legislators
brownsville
Daniel Murphy, executive director of the Pitkin Avenue BID, at the Pitkin Avenue Halloween Parade in 2017. (Image provided by Murphy)After more than ten years in the job, Daniel Murphy has left his role as the executive director of the Pitkin Avenue Business Improvement District [https://www.pitkinavenue.nyc/
Election 2021
Scene from a “Muslims Against Police Brutality” protest [/muslims-against-police-brutality-protest-bay-ridge-to-barclays-center/] in June 2020 (Image: Najm Designs Photography [https://www.najmdesignsny.com/photography-c250e]).The profile of New York City’s Muslim population has risen rapidly in recent years. In 2015, the city designated Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha as school
Bed Stuy
Over the last year, the influence of Brooklyn’s seafood-heavy coastal neighborhoods has started spreading inward. We’ve reported the openings of new seafood boil, crab, and lobster spots, not in the typical Sheepshead Bay, Red Hook and beach neighborhoods, but instead in East Flatbush, Crown Heights, and Bed-Stuy. The
Election 2021
“Look, I think community boards have huge issues with them that need a lot of reform.” That’s how Brooklyn Borough President candidate Antonio Reynoso began his response to a question about community boards at a virtual forum last night. The borough president has relatively limited power [https://www.cityandstateny.