Sep. 6, 2024 By Brooklyn Paper On Thursday, Sept. 19, Schneps Media will continue its 30-year celebration of Power Women with the Power Women of Brooklyn event at El Caribe. The evening will gather remarkable women from diverse industries for a premier networking experience. Produced by Schneps Media, publishers of the Bay News, Brooklyn…
Sep. 6, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann It’s the most wonderful time of the year — for parents. After nine weeks of summer fun, nearly 1 million public school students returned to the classroom Thursday for the start of the new school year. At M.S. 51 and P.S. 321 in Park Slope, students were excited…
Sep. 6, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan Wednesday will mark 23 years since the horrific terrorist attacks devasted New York City and forever changed the world. Several local organizations across Queens are hosting memorial events on September 11, 2024, to mark the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. They will honor the…
Sep. 5, 2024 By Barbara Russo-Lennon New York City opened 24 new public schools on Thursday, the first day students returned to the classroom for the new academic year — almost half of them in Brooklyn. The schools, which accommodate grades K through 12, are located across the city. The new buildings come outfitted…
Sep. 5, 2024 By Dean Moses A Crown Heights man was shot and killed in a Bed-Stuy subway station late on Wednesday night, according to police. Law enforcement sources said the victim — 47-year-old Freddie Weston of Sterling Place — was killed next to a MetroCard vending machine at the Rockaway Avenue train station…
Sep. 5, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell Brooklyn’s school bus fleet was one short on the first day of school after a fire broke out on board an empty bus in Canarsie. The squat yellow bus was parked in a driveway beside a private residence on the 1400 block of East 93rd…
Sep. 5, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen The end of August brought some good news to Brooklyn: while there were occasional spikes in gun violence, this summer was the safest on-record in terms of gun violence and gun-related deaths. Shootings in June, July and August were down 74% compared to 2020, per the Brooklyn District…
Sep. 5, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s Sunset Park Customer Service Center on Fifth Avenue was buzzing with excitement on Aug. 30 as parents and children lined up between 53rd and 54th streets to collect much-needed school supplies for the upcoming school year. Gary Tai, Anthem’s community outreach manager,…
Sep. 4, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen The Sunset Park Health Council, including nine Brooklyn-based Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Health, has been awarded $600,000 to expand its anti-overdose education program across Brooklyn. Over the next three years, the Family Health Centers will use the funds — granted by the Anthem Blue Cross and…
Sep. 4, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann Middle school students from the now-closed Visitation Academy were welcomed to their new academic home on Sept. 3, as Fontbonne Hall Academy cut the ribbon on its new middle school, The Visitation Program. The all-girls Catholic high school, a ministry of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, adopted The…