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A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico this morning, killing one man and injuring several others as well as cutting off power to large areas of the island, CNN reported [https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/us/puerto-rico-earthquake-tuesday/]. The quake is the most damaging to hit the island
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SJ Baren [https://unsplash.com/@sjbaren?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=photographer-credit&utm_content=creditBadge] Happy almost Thanksgiving! We are so close! Every year for the past 7, with the help of our readers we have raised $10,000+ for CAMBA’s Beyond Hunger Food Pantry [https://www.
Holidays
Thanksgiving on the L-train. Courtesy of Reddit User. [https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/e17sfi/thats_one_way_to_make_sure_your_guests_arrive_on/] L TRAIN — Around 7 p.m. on Sunday, a surprise Thanksgiving dinner took over the L-train from Union Square to Brooklyn. Every commuter on
Announcements
Dr. Melony Samuels, the executive director of The Campaign Against Hunger, center with supporters.This holiday season, Brooklyn Community Foundation wants to prove that Brooklyn isn’t just New York City’s largest or hippest borough, it is also its most generous. The Foundation’s #BrooklynGives campaign [http://www.brooklyngives.
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Courtesy of QSAC (Quality Services for the Autism Community)The start of a new school year is an exciting time for New York children—a time when they get to meet new teachers and make new friends. But for many students, this hopeful excitement is replaced by anxiety. This is
Central Brooklyn
Sharen and Lillian. Photo Credit: David Nager / AllianceBy Sharen I. Duke, the Executive Director and CEO of Alliance for Positive Change. [https://alliance.nyc/] In Brooklyn, the number of HIV diagnoses continues to drop, declining 12% from 2013 to 2017, while the estimated number of new infections in New York
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – Reading can introduce children to new worlds, educating and entertaining them as they develop a skill that will be crucial throughout their lives. If their reading skills lag behind those of their classmates in school, it can often be difficult for them to catch up. READ 718, 420
Big Story
Thousands of women at the annual International Chabad-Lubavitch Women’s Conference dinner at the New York State Armory in Williamsburg. (Photo credit: Shmuel Amit/Chabad.org)WILLIAMSBURG — There are roughly 60 Chabad-Lubavitch synagogues in Brooklyn. A thriving retail corridor along Kingston Avenue hums with shoppers daily, just down the block
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RED HOOK – You might have to watch your head as you walk down the steep cement stairs that lead into a basement stacked floor to ceiling with books, the headquarters of NYC Books Through Bars [https://booksthroughbarsnyc.org] located beneath Freebird Books [http://www.freebirdbooks.com] at 123 Columbia Street.
environment
The empty lot that will become a “Gateway to Greenpoint” (Via Newtown Creek Alliance)GREENPOINT – As the Newtown Creek Alliance looks to develop an empty parcel of city land into an environmental “Gateway to Greenpoint,” they’re reaching out to the community to contribute their vision of the space. The
Bushwick
A picture of the girls from the fundraising page (Via GoFundMe [https://www.gofundme.com/support-renita-vincent-and-their-family?fbclid=IwAR0LdY0zGf420lFYjc2S8aEbeiJJvppSvXBr9VpDtbCdc4GBvFKgdKkArVg] )A fundraiser has been set up to help the family of the two girls who were killed in a Bushwick apartment fire [/two-girls-killed-in-fire-while-visiting-their-grandfather-in-bushwick/] over the weekend. Haley Harris, 8, and Payton Gomez,
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We are joining Brooklyn Community Foundation in its call to ask you all to give in your neighborhood, in our borough, and help raise $1 million today for these 138 local nonprofit organizations [https://www.brooklyngives.org/organizations?show_all=true] working tirelessly to make Brooklyn a better place for