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Getting Our Little Ones off to a Great Start: How Farm to Preschool Can Make a Difference

Getting Our Little Ones off to a Great Start: How Farm to Preschool Can Make a Difference

Malata Cuisine Cooking Demo at BSECD By Afia Bediako, Community Health Advocate and Farm to Preschool Program Manager at Parenting can give us many opportunities to be proud of our little ones.
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Brooklyn Friends School Opens High School in MetroTech in Partnership with Forest City Ratner Companies

The popular Quaker grammar school Brooklyn Friends School on Tuesday welcomed an additional 200 students and 40 faculty members to a second facility: its new high school, located at One MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn.
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Brook-Lens (Photos): Central Brooklyn Goes Back to School!

Siblings Savannah, 4 yrs, Pre-K; and Fela, 7 yrs, 2nd grade It's that most wonderful time of the year!!! It's back to school for Brooklyn Babes! Oh, the joy for parents! The babes also are excited (if even for just one week)! This year, more than eve
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Common Grounds, a Neighborhood Staple in Bed-Stuy, is Closing its Doors, Says Owner

Photo: Facebook The Tompkins Avenue coffee shop Common Grounds-- a beloved staple in the Bed-Stuy community-- will be closing on September 27, 2015, announced its owner Tremaine Wright on Facebook on Thursday.
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Editorial: City Councilmember Laurie Cumbo on the Labor Day Carnival and Gun Violence

Dear Friend, As a Council Member serving in my second year in office, I would say the most challenging aspect of the position has become writing statements or press releases or even attending rallies around issues of gun violence in our communities.
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'Parents Allegedly Drugged Then Viciously Attacked by Sons:' Examining Changes in Adolescent Behavior

Two teen brothers from Atlanta drugged and attacked their own parents. Why? Over the Labor Day weekend, an Atlanta-area mother called 911 as her sons tried to kill her and her husband.
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Upcoming in Bed-Stuy: Residents, How Would YOU Spend $1 Million in Your Community?

Residents of District 36 (which includes Bedford-Stuyvesant and parts of Crown Heights): How would you spend $1 million dollars in your neighborhood? Surely you have some ideas.
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Advisory: Water Service Disruption in Parts of Clinton Hill

Advisory: Water Service Disruption in Parts of Clinton Hill

The New York City Department of Design and Construction has announced water service disruption for Myrtle Avenue and Emerson Place on Wednesday, September 9. Please make the necessary preparations and share this notice with others.
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First-Ever, All-Ages, Early Morning Dance Party Coming to Bklyn!

There's never been a morning rave in Brooklyn! C'mon Everybody, located at 325 Franklin Avenue, will host the first-ever, early morning dance party benefiting the #BlackLivesMatter movement Well, the borough is about to get its first one! On Wednesda
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This Labor Day: Everyday People and OkayAfrica Present 'EverydayAfrique!'

This Labor Day: Everyday People and OkayAfrica Present 'EverydayAfrique!'

This Labor Day, OkayAfrica is teaming up with Everyday People for the second EVERYDAY AFRIQUE rooftop party at Output , located at 74 Wythe Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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