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Snow Advisory For Tomorrow: No Outdoor Dining, ASP Suspended & All Remote Learning

Snow squall on Cortelyou, December 18, 2020. Liena Zagare/BklynerBROOKLYN – Get ready for lots of snow! New York City is expected to get up to a foot of snow tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16, and is supposed to last until Thursday. Outdoor dining on city streets will be suspended at 2

Carlos Menchaca Announces Run For Mayor

Carlos Menchaca. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)NEW YORK CITY – Another Brooklynite has joined the race for mayor. This morning, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, who has served City Council District 38—which includes Red Hook, Sunset Park, Greenwood Heights, and portions of Windsor Terrace, Dyker Heights, and Boro Park— for seven

Mayor to Furlough 9,000 City Employees

De Blasio at the press conference this morning when he announced the furloughs. (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)Over 9,000 managerial and unrepresented city employees will be furloughed for five days between October and March in an effort to save the city $21 million, Mayor Bill de Blasio

Wondering When You Will Get The $420 Per Public School Student Food Benefits?

Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeBROOKLYN – At the end of May, it was announced that through a federal relief effort, the state was approved to disperse the Coronavirus Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer or P-EBT. The sweeping program [https://otda.ny.gov/news/2020/2020-05-12.asp] would automatically send families the

Happy Labor Day! What You Need To Know For The Holiday Weekend

Image via californialabor [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJyM7kqBSNH/?tagged=rosietheriveter&hl=en]Happy Labor Day! We hope all our readers enjoy the final weekend of the summer. If you’re sticking around the area, here’s some information from the city [http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/4321/

New York City Economic Development Corporation Looking To Help Diverse Vendors Access Public Projects

Since taking office in 2014, Mayor de Blasio has made diversity a central focus of his administration. There have been diversity initiatives in agencies ranging from the Department of Cultural Affairs to the Department of Education and others. It’s no different at New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC)

Ticket Wiper, One Year In – the App for fighting NYC Parking Tickets

Last June, we told you about Ticket Wiper [/ticketwiper-new-app-help-fight-nyc-parking-tickets/], an app that helps you challenge NYC parking tickets. Since it’s been almost a year, we wanted to follow up and see how things are going. “It’s going great. We’re getting busier and busier. The word is getting

A Break From Your Usual Break Is Just A Car Share Away

via ReachNowThe New York City public school system serves 1.1 million children [http://schools.nyc.gov/AboutUs/default.htm] and all of them will be on break between December 25 and January 2. It’s cold. Maybe snowy. Gets dark earlier. What’s a parent to do? If all

Happy Labor Day! Here’s What To Know Around Town

Labor Day Parade, Union Square, New York, 1882 (Source: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Labor_Day_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Labor_Day_New_York_1882.jpg] )Happy Labor Day! We hope all our readers enjoy a final summer sendoff this holiday weekend. If

Is New York A Smart City?

Photo via Global Futures GroupAs we all know, Brooklyn, and New York City for that matter, is growing and changing in ways that those who were here before us would never have imagined. Gentrification is causing new tensions. New technologies are bringing jobs to some and displacing others. Bike and