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Chancellor Carranza speaks at Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press conference on COVID-19. City Hall. Monday, March 23, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Alex Zimmerman, originally published in Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/5/19/21264071/nyc-summer-school-doe-coronavirus] More than one in six New York
affordable housing
A row of houses in East New York. Photo: Allison Dikanovic/THE CITYBy Allison Dikanovic, additional reporting by Trone Dowd, originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/05/de-blasio-pulls-foundation-from-under-his-tiny-houses-push.html] During a pandemic where many homeowners are struggling to make payments and homelessness is running high, Claudette Macintosh
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Blackout in Mill Basin, July 21, 2019 (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)“We’re about to get into the warm weather in a serious way, starting today and this weekend. And that means summer’s around the corner and that’s a whole new reality,” Mayor said this morning, addressing City’
Business
When Rob Fraley first started developing his app, WhatToOrder, in 2016, he had no way of knowing what the restaurant industry would look like four years later when it would officially launch in 2020. The app, which is not a delivery app or a reservation app itself, aims to level
Election 2020
Suraj Patel on his way to donate plasma at Mt. Sinai – the only time he’s been on a subway this month. Courtesy of Suraj Patel.Suraj Patel [https://www.surajpatel.nyc/] is trying, again, to unseat Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney to represent Greenpoint, Upper East Side and Long Island City
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Photo byBill Oxford [https://unsplash.com/@bill_oxford?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] onUnsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/handcuffs?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Alexandra H. Smith, Sarah Young, and Michael Pate of the Brooklyn Criminal
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerWILLIAMSBURG – A couple was arrested after allegedly shouting anti-Semitic slurs at three Jewish men, while also trying to take off their face covering and blaming them for the coronavirus. The incident is being treated as a hate crime. On Sunday, May 10 at around 8:30 p.
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via NYCHAThese job listings are provided as public service to help as many of our neighbors as we can find temporary or permanent income. Not all jobs require education. Please share widely: H+H Contact Tracers [https://bachrachgroup.com/covid-19-jobs/]: > We’re hiring 2,500 contact tracers by early
Announcements
The city is set to distribute millions of free face coverings, and this is the latest set of locations [https://maps.nyc.gov/face-coverings/#] for distributions this week. There are 17 locations in total in Brooklyn, and most of them assume you do not work during the day: THURSDAY: Bensonhurst
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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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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
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Last Stop. Liena Zagare/BklynerMTA announced earlier today that it will close the subway system for deep-cleaning every night between 1-5 am starting on May 6th. “During this overnight period, the MTA will intensify disinfecting operations, cleaning its fleet of thousands of cars and buses every night, and further testing