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With Dangerously High Temperatures Expected This Week, City Warns New Yorkers to Take Precautions

High heat and humidity are in the forecast Tuesday through Friday, with heat indices in the mid-90s and potentially as high as 105 degrees across the city, thanks to high levels of humidity.

Central Brooklyn

A Snowy Winter Highlights New York’s Trash Problems

As storm after storm piled several inches of snow over Brooklyn’s streets this month, a familiar complaint emerged on social media: the garbage was getting out of control. > Ahhh nothing more New York than freshly fallen snow on days old garbage .#snow [https://twitter.com/hashtag/snow?src=hash&

News

Glenwood Houses Without Heat In The Middle Of Massive Snow Storm

via @NYCSanitationThe 2,424 residents of Glenwood Houses were without heat all day today as the snowstorm that made Mayor de Blasio issue a State of Emergency blanketed the city. The outage follows a weekend where four Glenwood Houses buildings, which house 497 residents, were without heat or hot water

fort greene

Over 4,000 Neighbors at Ingersoll Houses Have Been without Heat All Day

Aerial Photo of Ingersoll Houses via NYCHAFORT GREENE — The 4,046 neighbors who live at the 21-building Ingersoll Houses [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/ingersoll-report-en.pdf] complex have been without heat and hot water since 10 am today. NYCHA, the city’s worst landlord [/nycha-jason-korn-again-top-public-advocates-list-of-worst-landlords/], has failed

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Snow Advisory

December 16, 2020 Snow. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeA citywide snow warning has been issued for this Wednesday, January 20th. The New York City Department of Sanitation’s Winter Operations Advisory will begin at 12:01 am. Snow is expected to begin in the early morning and persist through tomorrow

Kids & Family

Biggest Snowfall In Years Means Perfect Snow For Sledding

Sledding happening throughout Prospect Park. Keira Wingate/BklynerThe biggest downfall the city has seen in years brings the perfect weather for holiday fun – sledding, building a snowman, or a snowball fight. Snowfall came racing down at a rate of 1 to 2 inches an hour, with Brooklyn getting anywhere between

Education

Snow will keep school buildings closed Thursday, but remote learning will continue for all

Snow in Bensonhurst. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/12/16/22179223/snow-day-nyc-remote-learning] New York City school buildings will be closed for in-person learning on Thursday due to a storm that’s expected to dump up to a foot of snow [https://www.

Announcements

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

Announcements

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

Announcements

A Tree Falls In Brooklyn. Two Months After Isaias, Still There.

The fallen tree. (Photo: Ryan Lynch)DITMAS PARK – Tropical Storm Isaias hit Brooklyn in early August. [/was-brooklyn-prepared-for-tropical-storm-isaias/] It left 22,000 households without power and left 21,000 fallen trees across the city – some 6,000 of them in Brooklyn. A week after the storm, a neighbor noticed a fallen

Announcements

Was Brooklyn Prepared For Tropical Storm Isaias?

A fallen tree in Bath Beach. (Photo via Steve Patzer, with permission)SOUTHERN BROOKLYN – Tropical Storm Isaias left about 22,000 Brooklyn households without power last night. The number is now down to 5,632. In Manhattan this morning? The number is 67. Fallen trees have taken over the streets.

Announcements

Tropical Storm Isaias Is Expected Around Midnight, Heavy Wind & Rain

National Weather Service forecast for tropical storm Isaias [https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/084832.shtml?tswind120]We have another tropical storm heading our way. Tropical Storm Isaias is expected to bring heavy rainfall and strong winds starting around midnight tonight, and through the day tomorrow. Expect

Announcements

Brooklyn, You’ve Been Warned: It’s Blackout Season

Blackout in Mill Basin, July 21, 2019. Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner“We got a warning this morning from Con Edison, and there is a problem in Southern Brooklyn,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at this morning’s press conference. “We’ve got to protect our electricity supply for all New

Announcements

Stay Hydrated And Check On Your Neighbors In This Heat

Photo by Erica Price/Bklyner.BROOKLYN – It’s hot out there. Today may feel as high as 100F, even while our thermometer records just 93F this afternoon. There is a heat advisory and Mayor Bill de Blasio this morning advised New Yorkers to stay hydrated and cool. “So everyone, remember,

Announcements

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 until 2 a.m. Saturday. The City has also issued a flash flood warning and it is in effect until late tonight. Please stay indoors and stay safe. “We are

News

Two Inches of Snow to Hit New York City Tomorrow

New York City — the Department of Sanitation has declared a snow alert for New York City, [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/resources/press-releases/dsny-issues-snow-alert-for-saturday-january-18-2020-at-7-a-m] beginning tomorrow at 7 a.m. and remaining in effect until Sunday at 1 a.m. The National Weather Service of New York sent

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More Snow Squalls Expected Noon To Midnight Today

Snow squall on Cortelyou, December 18, 2020.Scattered snow showers + gusty winds = snow squalls and hazardous travel. Many of us had to google what on earth was a snow squall when it hit us back in December [/danger-snow-showers-expected-this-evening/]. “Snow squall is a sudden, intense period of moderate to heavy blowing

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PR Declares State of Emergency After 6.4 Magnitute Earthquake Hits Island, Brooklyn Gets Ready to Help

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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Danger: Snow Showers Expected This Evening

Did you just get a squall warning on your phone? The National Weather Service has issued a Snow Squall Warning for all of Long Island. What on earth is it? A Snow Squall is “a sudden, an intense period of moderate to heavy blowing snow”, which the authorities expect to

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Winter Weather Advisory: New York May Get 5-8 Inches of Snow Tonight

Winter’s here: Just days after pleasant holiday dinners, New York gets hit with challenging weather. The mayor and other city representatives held a weather preparedness press conference today to address any snow-related questions and ensure New Yorkers of the city’s weather emergency plans. According to the National Weather

Letter To The Editor

Sewage Check Valves Before Another Park Reno! Manhattan Beach Residents Upset Over Missing Storm Protection Money

Dear Editor,Thank you for shedding more light on the question of where the Federal monies for future storm protection that were allocated to South Brooklyn communities have gone [/what-happened-to-the-10-million-the-mayor-promised-for-sewage-backup-valves-in-southern-brooklyn/] . The Manhattan Beach Community Group and other South Brooklyn civic organizations spent months with NYRising to determine how and where

Announcements

Will We Get Our First Snow Tomorrow?!

Snow in Brooklyn. Photo from Bklyner Archive.New York City — The Department of Sanitation has declared a snow alert [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/resources/press-releases/dsny-issues-snow-alert-for-tuesday-november-12-2019-at-10-a-m] for New York City beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 12. Get your hats and gloves out! Data

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NYC Has Planted 34,000 Trees in Brooklyn Since Sandy

A downed tree in Bensonhurst in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Via Flickr user bigmike33x. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigmike33x/8148028948/in/photostream/]The city Parks Department has planted over 34,000 tees in Brooklyn since 2012, far outpacing the 4,000 trees lost in the borough as

brownsville

High Temperatures Tax Firefighters At Two Major Fires In Sunset Park And Brownsville

SUNSET PARK/BROWNSVILLE – High temperatures made fighting a pair of two-alarm fires in two Brooklyn neighborhoods much more difficult this morning, injuring six people and leaving numerous homeless, fire officials said. Firefighter Jesus Sanchez of Ladder 176 cools down after fighting a fire on Pacific Street. (Photo by Todd Maisel)

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Adams Says He Would Have Immediately Arrested People Who Dumped Water On Cops

Borough President Eric Adams. Todd Maisel/BklynerBorough President Eric Adams said Thursday that he would have arrested the men who over the weekend doused water on police officers. During the heat wave, two videos [https://time.com/5632901/nypd-de-blasio-water-police/] were recorded and posted to social media of people dumping water