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Community Service Organizations Are Stepping Up To Help Those In Need During Pandemic

Meals being prepared at Rethink Food’s Brooklyn Navy Yard facility. Courtesy of Rethink Food.The city is shutting down [/brooklyn-coronavirus-briefing-march-16/], and New York’s grocery store shelves are being emptied out [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/nyregion/coronavirus-panic-buying.html] as frantic shoppers stock up on rice, canned

Bensonhurst

Here’s How You Can Help Ecuadorian Earthquake Victims

Red Cross volunteers aid victims of Ecuador’s May 16 earthquake (Image via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/26409477582/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz4Wq-afHwkp-afLhJG-afLhFb-7GzET3-9pyEbn-c8mauu-7GvPrK-7GQxtS-7K5Whx-7GLAFD-7GQxDh-Gkwc6Q-7GLB6z-FqUqWh-7GLApg-99LuME-wPg5eC-FsqpVU-GeHtAo-FXLcf5-FsqpTj-FXLcn9-FXLcjo-GeHtBA-GeHtH7-GnSBCH-FsAX8c-FXLcmY-qdV8fs-GkzDJ3-GnSBEM-FsqpXN-FsAX4p-FXLcjd/] ). [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/25896906034/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz

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Our Buildings: 317 Clermont Avenue

The Masonic Temple at 317 Clermont Avenue has stood tall since 1909. (Drawing by Daniel Lewis)What makes a neighborhood? People, pets and the stories that make up our days. But we also have our buildings, the places where we work, play, eat, sleep, learn and live. Throughout Fort Greene

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Paper Lanterns Memorialize Mandela at Madiba Restaurant

Outside Madiba Restaurant on DeKalb Avenue, people lit paper lanterns in honor of Nelson Mandela. (Photo by Daniel Lewis)South Africans and native New Yorkers alike gathered outside of Madiba Restaurant [http://www.madibarestaurant.com/] last night to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s funeral. Dozens of people came to bid farewell

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The Day: An Atlantic Yards Lawsuit, a Specialty Food Store Opening and a New Greenmarket

A bright flash erupted from rain-carrying clouds over the city. Here’s hoping the torrential rain stays to a minimum today. (Photo by Brien Foy)Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Make sure you have your rain gear with you while traveling throughout the nabe today. The National Weather

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Death of South Slope Youth Advocate Leaves Void in Nonprofit Community

South Slope mourned the loss of one of our own last Thursday at the Park Slope Jewish Center. Christine Molnar, President and CEO of Safe Space [http://www.safespacenyc.org/safespace/section/], a nonprofit agency committed to improving the lives of at-risk children, passed away on Friday, January 11, at

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BNA To Host Social Services Workshop In Brighton

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In-School Teen Counseling Program To Be Axed In July

Source: saveteenrapp.orgA program that helps 11,800 teens each year might be terminated by July of this year if funding is allowed to be slashed, and a local councilman says he’ll be fighting for its restoration. Teen RAPP — Relationship Abuse Prevention Program [http://www.nyc.gov/html/hra/

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Video: Fidler Rails Against Cuts To Homeless Services

by Councilman Lew Fidler It is a statistical fact that tonight 3,800 children WITHOUT their families will be homeless on the streets of NYC tonight. Over the past 9 years that I have chaired the Council’s Youth Services Committee, I have conducted over 18 hearings on the issues