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Governor Cuomo. Darren McGee- Office of Governor Andrew CuomoGovernor Cuomo announced today that New Yorkers over the age of 30 will be eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine starting tomorrow. In addition, on April 6, residents over the age of 16 will be eligible for the vaccine, making eligibility universally
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Photo by James Sutton [https://unsplash.com/@jamessutton_photography?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/phone-teens?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Eileen Grench, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https:
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100 Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach, the site of a planned 170-bed shelter. (Image from Google Maps)A well-known service provider slated to oversee a controversial planned homeless shelter in Brighton Beach has been abruptly dropped by the site’s incoming owner, raising questions about the shelter’s future. CORE
Election 2021
Boris Noble (Image: campaign)Boris Noble dropped out of the race for the District 48 Council seat in southern Brooklyn on Wednesday, citing health complications stemming from coronavirus. Noble, a former housing analyst for the Brooklyn Borough President’s office, said in a statement [https://www.facebook.com/nobleforcouncil/posts/
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Carlos Menchaca (Image: William Alatriste/Campaign)We’re just under three months away from New York City’s June 22nd primary elections [https://vote.nyc/] which, in this heavily Democratic borough and city, will likely be the decisive race in many contests. Brooklynites will have the opportunity to vote for
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The Brooklyn Nets Food Pantry at PS/IS 308 on January 15, 2021 in Brooklyn, New York (Image: Michelle Farsi)Even as service providers and food pantries across the city have stepped up to meet the surge in demand for free food prompted by the pandemic, several parts of Brooklyn
Education
Rendering of the new rooftop garden planned for P.S. 97 in Gravesend. (Image: NYC School Construction Authority)A crowded Gravesend public school will get a long-awaited extension, including a new greenhouse facility and roof garden, by the fall of this year. The $70 million addition to P.S. 97,
Arts & Culture
Skelly [https://eightygames.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/skelly-a-new-york-street-game/comment-page-1/] , a popular children’s street game, is making a comeback as an app. Sometimes referred to as skully, skelsy, or skellies, it is played by “shooting” or flicking a bottle cap across a numbered grid, usually marked in chalk on
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Bagels. They’re among our fair city’s most controversial foods, right up there with pizza and pastrami, so it’s no surprise that definitive statements can ruffle a few feathers. Yesterday, The New York Times (our own paper of record!) published a story titled “The Best Bagels Are in
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NYC high schools will welcome back students on March 22. Brooklyn’s Park Slope Collegiate, which shares a building with several high schools, welcomed its middle schoolers back on Feb. 25. Amy Zimmer/ChalkbeatBy Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/8/22318909/psal-nyc-high-school-reopening] The overwhelming
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This week marked the anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID19 in NYC. Today, March 5, marks a year since the first confirmed case in Brooklyn. Soon it will be a year since the city was shut down. And, hopefully, soon everyone will have had a chance to get
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Eugene Hurkin, family photo.If there was one thing Eugene Hurkin lived for, it was to laugh and make others smile too. And if a joke was good enough to tell once—it was good enough to tell a thousand times. Every time Eugene and his family drove past a