This week, we mourn the tragic loss of third-grade Brooklyn teacher Sandra Santos-Vizcaino, the first teacher to die from the new coronavirus. Ms. Santos-Vizcaino taught at P.S. 9 in Prospect Heights, and was described by the community as a generous, ...
The Brooklyn company behind the interactive escape room Beat The Bomb has launched a new online game Beat The Virus, where Dr. Anthony Fauci shoots lasers from his eyes to destroy the Coronavirus. The single player, 19-level game (read COVID-19) ...
If home isolation has taught 7-year-old Miles George one thing, it’s that the unemployment office is nearly impossible to reach on the phone. “We’ve made it a game,” laughed Miles’s mom Nicole George from their Flatbush home. “I was like ...
Emerging Brooklyn singer Samantha Bowers—better known to her devoted fans as Sammy Rae—was scheduled to take her band on a national tour from mid-March through the first week of May. Several of the venues sold out early. [caption id="attachment_177078" align="alignleft" ...
Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay, the pastor of St. Brigid’s parish located in Wyckoff Heights in Bushwick died Friday evening, March 27, at Wyckoff Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn from complications related to the coronavirus. The Mexican-born Brooklyn pastor is the first priest ...
A recent study by the NYC Comptroller's office shows that New York City’s essential frontline workers in the battle against Covid-19 are more than just healthcare workers, and their needs extend beyond masks and protective equipment. Included amongst the brave first ...
In New York and in many other cities, states, and countries around the world, the horrifying spread of Covid-19 has resulted in drastic measures that few of us have seen in this lifetime. In fact, the rapid spread of the ...
By a New York Resident March 11, 8:01 PM: I got a call from the nursing facility that my aunt had passed away due to complications with diabetes. As one of her three nieces in New York, it was left ...
This week, we mourned the tragic loss of Dez-Ann Romaine, principal of the Brooklyn Democracy Academy in Brownsville due to coronavirus. A student recalled on Facebook how “She supported us through all our future endeavors, whether it personal or ...
New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 27 attorneys general from around the nation today sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos calling on the U.S. Department of Education to extend federal student loan borrowers an ...
When news of the coronavirus outbreak reached the hospital back in January, Dr. Sandra Scott, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, said her department began preparing early for what it knew was inevitable: ...
On Wednesday, the office of The New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. released a policy brief that looks at the problem ...
At a tele-press conference on Tuesday, New York City local elected officials released a rent relief plan that calls on city and state government, in concert with landlords, to allow renters to apply their cash security deposits to their April ...
During this time of social distancing, the New York State Department of Health has released guidelines around planning funerals, as life (and death) continue during the battle against the coronavirus. The department's recommendations are common-sense measures aimed at keeping New ...
He calls it putting the City "on pause," so that everyone understands it means STOP... but, hopefully, not for too long. Governor Cuomo's 10-Point Policy that he announced on Friday and which went into effect at 8:00pm on Sunday, calls ...
On Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a sheltering-in of all New York residents and employees of nonessential businesses. That means hundreds of thousands of New York City residents are suddenly out of work. We don't know the exact numbers since ...
On Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that New York residents are now ordered to stay indoors as much as possible to avoid the spread of coronavirus, and if they do leave the house — whether to do essential shopping or ...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center on Thursday announced the opening of a new telemedicine facility within the hospital, offering another way to potentially pre-screen for coronavirus through live video conferencing on a patient's phone or computer. Health professionals began using the ...
Amma Whatt (Artist, Mom, Content Creator, Brooklyn Resident) It was all good just a few weeks ago. And then, countless parents across the country were sent scrambling when one school district after another began to close down. As we all know ...
Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Council Member Rory Lancman, Chair of the Committee on the Justice System, and Council Member Donavan Richards, Chair of the Committee on Public Safety, are calling on the city's top law enforcement officials to take all necessary ...
Dear Brooklyn Readers,
In New York City, social distancing may require re-evaluating the things you value and rethinking the way you love!
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