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Giving thanks and giving back: Where to volunteer in Brooklyn this Thanksgiving

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Nov. 15, 2023 By Augostina Mallous Thanksgiving is just around the corner, which means organizations across Brooklyn stand ready for volunteers eager to make a difference! From creating festive art to packaging and delivering meals, there are many avenues for Brooklynites to come together give back to their community. Here are a variety of opportunities…
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Affordable housing lotto opens for 299 units near Coney Island boardwalk

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Nov. 14, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 299 apartments in a 100 percent affordable development rising on Coney Island’s Surf Avenue, overlooking the Brooklyn Cyclones’ home ground, Maimonides Park.

Bensonhurst seniors turn out for CenterLight PACE health fair

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Nov. 14, 2023 Brooklyn Paper

The state’s largest provider of all-inclusive health care for the elderly, CenterLight Healthcare PACE, held a health and wellness fair in Bensonhurst on Saturday to bring awareness to local seniors about their options for long-term care.

Colorful mural installation ‘Brownsville Reflections’ brightens affordable housing construction site, celebrates nabe’s residents and history

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Nov. 14, 2023 By Bella Sanchez

Innovative artists have unveiled a 600-foot-long collaboration of murals on construction sheds over an affordable housing project in Brownsville, bringing together a diverse community and bringing color to the dull barriers surrounding the new housing developments until construction is finalized.

Woman who claimed abandoned East New York house fights investors for possession

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Nov. 14, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith Ten years ago Sybil Green, who goes by the name Tami, was biking down a stretch of Jackie Robinson Parkway’s residential frontage road, which connects Vermont Street in East New York with Highland Park, when she noticed a house that looked in disrepair, with a door ajar and a…
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