Day: April 9, 2024

News

Brooklyn Borough President makes a speech, by Brian Abate

On March 13, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso delivered his State of the Borough speech in front of a packed crowd of hundreds of people at New York City College of Technology. Reynoso spoke about a variety of issues including how to move freight throughout the city in safe, sustainable, and efficient ways. The problem is one that Jim Tampakis […]

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Local group renames itself, by Nathan Weiser

The Red Hook Civic Association met on March 26 at the Red Hook Recreation Center. The March meeting was the group’s first anniversary. According to Nico Kean, the April meeting will consist of a special celebration with a party and a progress report, and will be held at the Red Hook Coffee Shop on Van Brunt Street. A name change […]

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Women celebrated at the Harbor Middle School, by Nathan Weiser

PS 676 Harbor Middle School held a family fun STEM night in the cafeteria for the students and parents. There was a special focus on women in science as March is Women’s History month. There were also hands-on math and science activities at tables and outside organizations at the event. There was a women’s history coloring table. A drawing was […]

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Participatory Budgeting Vote Week, by Katherine Rivard

Council Member Shahana Hanif, her staff, several artists from the nonprofit Arts & Democracy Project, and a handful of volunteers all gathered in the Old Stone House in Park Slope on a Monday evening last month. At the start of the meeting, each person introduced themselves and stated their artistic skills, before being assigned a project and getting down to […]

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Ongoing Efforts from the Department of City Planning, by Katherine Rivard

It has been a busy year for the Department of City Planning (DCP). The city has seemed weighed down with budget cuts, constant media attention on crime in the subways, and sexual assault allegations against the mayor, and yet DCP has continued its work, publishing Principles of Good Urban Design for New York City (a tool for creating better neighborhoods) […]

Feature Story, Sports

Summit Academy’s Girls Basketball Team Secures Historic Win in Citywide Championship, by Nathan Weiser

Summit Academy’s girls basketball team won its first citywide championship last month as it pulled away in the 4th quarter to win the 1A girls basketball playoffs over Manhattan’s School of the Future, 53-45. The game at Long Island University’s Steinberg Wellness Center was packed with fans from both teams. In the semifinals at Queensborough Community College, Summit beat No. […]

Feature Story

WALKING WITH COFFEE vol. 4 by R.J. Cirillo

Jean-Paul Sartre was right! (maybe) We’ll skip the millennial interview and let a Boomer rant this month.  The main threat to society, from my born in the ‘50s point of view, is the trending reduction in human contact.  The millennials I have spoken in the past few months don’t seem to be bothered by this, i.e. the dating apps and […]