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Jul
24
Friday Crime Blotter: Bank Robbery, Stabbing & Beating A 12-Year-Old

Friday Crime Blotter: Bank Robbery, Stabbing & Beating A 12-Year-Old

BED STUY – Cops are looking for six guys who beat up a 12-year-old boy inside a deli two weeks ago.
4 min read
Jul
21
City-Run COVID-19 Testing Sites Lagging in Results Turnaround

City-Run COVID-19 Testing Sites Lagging in Results Turnaround

A Health + Hospitals coronavirus testing center at Gotham Health in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, July 17, 2020. | Rachel Holliday Smith/THE
4 min read
Jul
20
COVID Rent Relief – Only Two Weeks To Apply

COVID Rent Relief – Only Two Weeks To Apply

Photo by Anthony Fomin [https://unsplash.com/@aginsbrook?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on
2 min read
Jul
14
How Mindfulness Helps Students in Brooklyn School Cope With Pandemic And Social Justice Issues

How Mindfulness Helps Students in Brooklyn School Cope With Pandemic And Social Justice Issues

Unite NY Rally on Juneteenth 2020. Adrian Childress/BklynerStudents may be drawn first to the calming impacts of mindfulness, but
5 min read
Jul
13
Black And Blue Lives Matter Protesters Clash In Bay Ridge

Black And Blue Lives Matter Protesters Clash In Bay Ridge

A protestor and counter-protestor clashing. (Photo via Rathkopf Photos, with permission.)BAY RIDGE/DYKER HEIGHTS – On Sunday, dozens of people
7 min read
Jul
13
Brooklyn Woman’s Death During Childbirth Spurs Renewed Outcry Over Treatment Disparities

Brooklyn Woman’s Death During Childbirth Spurs Renewed Outcry Over Treatment Disparities

By Claudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY.  This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/health/2020/7/9/21319623/
6 min read
Jul
10
Your Absentee Vote May Not Count

Your Absentee Vote May Not Count

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerThousands of absentee ballots in Brooklyn and across the city are likely to be invalidated by the
4 min read
Jul
10
How To Stay Safe During Tropical Storm Fay

How To Stay Safe During Tropical Storm Fay

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBROOKLYN – Tropical Storm Fay is here! It is expected to be windy and rain all day today
3 min read
Jul
09
New York Jobless Face New Woes With End of $600 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance

New York Jobless Face New Woes With End of $600 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance

Bushwick resident and former restaurant Kendra Avila’s unemployment benefits are calculated without her tips, making her even more reliant
6 min read
Jul
01
Whitney Hu Is Running For City Council District 38

Whitney Hu Is Running For City Council District 38

Whitney Hu. (Rathkopf Photography [https://www.rathkopf.com/], with permission) SUNSET PARK/RED HOOK – Whitney Hu, 29, announced her run
5 min read