Mar. 3, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn received an immediate raise on Saturday after their union and hospital administrators reached a last-minute contract agreement and narrowly avoided a strike. The Federation of Nurses/UFT ratified the two-year contract late on Feb. 27, about 24 hours before the old agreement was set…
Feb. 24, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen About 1,000 union nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn are prepared to go on strike on March 1 unless a deal can be struck before their contract expires at midnight on Feb. 28. The Federation of Nurses/UFT, which represents the nurses, issued a ten-day strike notice last week in…
Sep. 24, 2024 By Naisha Roy Bay Ridge residents are banding together to help the family of neighbor Segundo Reina-Gaon after he was identified as the victim of a fatal hit-and-run crash on Sept. 11. Reina-Gaon, 74, was crossing Ridge Boulevard on Bay Ridge Avenue when he was struck by the driver of a…
Oct. 11, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women, and a diagnosis can be scary and isolating. But, for decades, organizations like Maimonides Medical Center, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn, and the Susan G. Komen Foundation have partnered with local communities…
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Aug. 30, 2023 By Brooklyn Paper
Thousands of Brooklyn students picked up free, brand-new, fully stocked backpacks in preparation for the first day of school on Wednesday, courtesy of the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone and Empire BlueCross BlueShield.