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Here’s Where You Can Get a Free Turkey in Brooklyn This Thanksgiving

Here’s Where You Can Get a Free Turkey in Brooklyn This Thanksgiving

Several local organizations are holding free turkey giveaways over the next week to make sure everyone can have a traditional meal this Thanksgiving.
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Health Worker Training Program Launched for Formerly Incarcerated Brooklynites

Health Worker Training Program Launched for Formerly Incarcerated Brooklynites

The program offers individuals with a history in the criminal system employment opportunities in the midst of healthcare worker shortage.
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State Analysis Shows Decline in Homeless Veterans Across New York

State Analysis Shows Decline in Homeless Veterans Across New York

Report finds New York state has made substantial progress in reducing homelessness for veterans between 2010 and 2022
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This Bed-Stuy Alliance is Helping Local Residents Start Their Own Block Association

This Bed-Stuy Alliance is Helping Local Residents Start Their Own Block Association

The BedStuy Works Alliance of Block and Tenant Associations works with more than 70 block associations and 10 tenant associations in Central Brooklyn. 
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Brooklyn Public Library Opens New Teen Tech Center Locations

Brooklyn Public Library Opens New Teen Tech Center Locations

The centers provide local teenagers with access to a wide array of technological resources, including computers, 3-D printers, cameras, and more.
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HOPE Program Appoints Brooklyn's Tracey Capers as Executive Director

HOPE Program Appoints Brooklyn's Tracey Capers as Executive Director

Tracey Capers will be joining the HOPE Program following a 20-year tenure at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
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Green-Wood Cemetery Receives $500K State Funding for Education Center

Green-Wood Cemetery Receives $500K State Funding for Education Center

Once completed, the Brooklyn cemetery's Education and Welcome Center will feature art galleries, spaces for educational programming, a dedicated classroom and more.
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Community Leader Bunmi Samuel Transforms Tragedy into Opportunity

Community Leader Bunmi Samuel Transforms Tragedy into Opportunity

After surviving a near-fatal skydiving accident, Bunmi Samuel leverages his past to champion a more accessible New York.
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Developers Break Ground on New, All-Electric Apartment Building in Brooklyn

Developers Break Ground on New, All-Electric Apartment Building in Brooklyn

The building will have 324 units of multi-family housing with 98 units designated as rent-stabilized, middle-income housing at the border of Fort Greene and Downtown Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Public Library Announces 2023 Book Prize Winners

Brooklyn Public Library Announces 2023 Book Prize Winners

Biography of X awarded Fiction Prize, Hijab Butch Blues claims Nonfiction Prize.
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