The Red Hook Initiative (RHI), which serves within Brooklyn’s largest public housing development, announced it is currently experiencing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19. “Our multi-generational families — for no matter where we live, these are our families too — face life-altering choices on a daily basis: whether to send a grandchild to their job at […]
I don’t remember all that much about first grade. But I do recall my mother telling Ms. Deshora at P.S. 102 that I would be missing another day of school because of complications from my asthma. I should have been playing with my friends, and learning how to read, but I was stuck at home […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday that the federal government will build four additional temporary hospitals in New York City, one in each borough, to handle the novel coronavirus pandemic. The chosen sites, which would each be equipped with a thousand beds, include the 182,000-square-foot Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. The Cruise Terminal, where such notable ships […]