Aug. 20, 2024 By Adam Daly Members and volunteers of a Bay Ridge nonprofit that serves children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities celebrated on Tuesday after securing $2 million in federal funding for renovations and upgrades to their southern Brooklyn facilities. Congress Member Nicole Malliotakis obtained the funding for the Guild for…
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Clearing the air: 1,500 new trees at Green-Wood Cemetery will filter greenhouse gases, fight climate change
Aug. 6, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A tree grows in Green-Wood Cemetery — or, it will soon.
With demand for food assistance rising, CHiPS receives federal funding to expand mobile food pantry program
May. 31, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Community Help in Park Slope will soon be able to expand their mobile food pantry program, thanks to new federal funding secured by U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman.
City receives $5.6M federal ‘Reconnecting Communities’ grant to revamp BQE
Mar. 15, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
The city has been awarded a $5.6 million federal “Reconnecting Communities & Neighborhoods” grant to help revamp the northern and southern stretches of the infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Biden administration denies $800M infrastructure grants for BQE’s crumbling cantilever
Feb. 6, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
The Biden administration has rejected the city’s applications for $800 million in infrastructure grants to redesign and reconstruct the crumbling triple cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Brooklyn Paper’s sister publication amNewYork Metro first reported.
U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries delivers more than $1M in funding for new schoolyard, science facilities at Brooklyn public schools
Apr. 5, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Brooklyn Congress Member and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took some time out of his busy schedule in Washington this week to visit two Brownsville schools with good news — and hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for new programs and infrastructure.