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TJ Martell Foundation: The Fight Against Cancer Cancer remains one of the most prevalent and devastating diseases worldwide, affecting countless lives. Cancer research plays a pivotal role in unraveling the complexities of this formidable illness. In the month of July, the T.J. Martell Foundation, a renowned nonprofit organization dedicated to funding innovative cancer research, orchestrated its awe-inspiring fundraising event, the […]
SummerStage Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is yet again bringing forth an unforgettable free musical experience. I attended my first SummerStage concert and was blown away. I sat in my seat and I looked around at the impressive stage set up and lighting. From the bleachers to the grass, concert goers decorated the venue with picnic mats and colorful […]
Another French airplane for Zelensky (to go to the G7)” states a comic strip on the French weekly Canard Enchaîné, portraying Zelensky getting on an airbus and a French politician telling him “We’ve agreed that it’s just a loan.” Far from being just a comic strip, this little joke shows how airplane diplomacy is having an impact on the country’s […]
Destiny Mirabel was working in one of the greenhouses when I walked up to the Columbia Street farm one afternoon in late May. I had imagined the farm’s Distribution Manager clad in overalls, perhaps wearing a pair of knee high rubber boots and wiping a moist brow on their shirt sleeve as they walked up to introduce themselves. Instead, I […]
On April 2nd Barbara, a retired New York City school teacher, parked her silver 2021 Hyundai Tucson SE in a spot that had miraculously opened up, right across from her Park Slope home. Sadly, that night her car joined the ranks of the Hyundai TikTok Challenge. For numbskull young-ins, that Challenge is pretty easy to conquer. You see, Hyundai models […]
For most voters in Brooklyn, including virtually every Democrat in Brownstone Brooklyn and Sunset Park (outside of the vicinity of Chinatown) there will only be one race on the ballot in this year’s primary: a seat on the Civil Court bench. For most of you, this is a race involving candidates you never heard of the day before yesterday who […]
In mid-May, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that $7.6 million would be awarded to 21 animal shelters and humane societies across the state—through the New York State Companion Animal Capital Projects Fund—for capital projects that “will enhance animal care and health and help ensure adoptions for New York’s dogs and cats.” One of the recipients in this fifth round of the […]
In the early 1990s, I was living in what I considered a boring neighborhood, on East 19th Street and Avenue O near Kings Highway. There were few other single people living nearby on their own, and I found little to interest me other than Highway Bagels and Adelman’s Deli. But one summer, I saw a flyer attached to a telephone […]
Three years ago the whole world was hit hard by the Covid-19. I still remember, like most of us, being locked at home, doing online learning, preparing I don’t know how much bread and pizza (sounds Italian, eh?) and seeing the outside from the little apartment where I lived with my family. In that period, April 2020, I started writing […]
My brother Jerry, who’d been battling Parkinson’s for the past six years, died last week at the age of 84. He leaves no heirs, no inheritance, no smartphone, and no debts. He lived and worked his entire life in Brooklyn, but there will be no street dedications in his honor. A proud member of Teamster’s Local 237, a weekly contributor […]