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A new AARP report shows that 1 in 4 New York adults are unpaid family caregivers, providing $39 billion in care each year while facing major financial and emotional strain.

Maimonides Health opens Brooklyn’s largest freestanding children’s emergency department and only pediatric trauma center, expanding access to world-class emergency care for families across the borough.

Public school students will have continued bus service for another month thanks to an emergency 30-day contract, as the Department of Education and over 50 school bus companies try to hammer out a five-year contract extension.

On Sunday, Nov. 2, daylight saving ends at 2:00am when the clocks fall back one hour.

Brooklyn was soaked with about 2 inches of rain on Thursday, with parked cars submerging in water all across the borough including Sheepshead Bay, Midwood and Bed-Stuy. One Wingate resident died after trying to save his pet dogs from his basement.

The 87-year-old man was walking in the crosswalk on Avenue Z when he was hit by the bus operated by Andre Reid, just blocks from his home.

Officers were called to 626 Park Ave. just before 2:30pm on Wednesday.

Governor Kathy Hochul also allocated another $40 million in new funding for various state food aid programs, bringing the total to $106 million.

Thanks to a $13.2 million investment from Brooklyn-based state assemblymembers, 18 library branches will get new roofs, HVAC systems and other building upgrades.