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Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn’s primary medical school in the State University New York (SUNY) system. Noted as a research facility as well, MRI was developed and invented here by Dr. Raymond Damadian in the 1960s.Photo courtesy of SUNY

SUNY Chancellor weighs in on vision for a stronger Downstate, built with community input

March 27 | Special from SUNY Downstate

PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — Located in Central Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate is New York City’s only public academic medical center. For 160 years, Downstate has trained a diverse, world-class health care workforce while providing essential medical services to Brooklyn residents. However, years of disinvestment have left Downstate’s hospital building in disrepair and an ongoing financial crisis. […]

Rusty Zimmerman’s 202 portraits of Brooklynites are on display at Industry City’s Building 8, March 20, 2024.

‘An Elaborate Ruse to Trick Neighbors Into Saying Hello’ Comes to a Bittersweet End

March 26 | Haidee Chu, THE CITY

Over the past year, 202 Brooklynites have sipped coffee, slouched and sometimes snoozed in the red, upholstered chair that now sits perched on a wooden pedestal inside a street-level gallery at Building 8 of Industry City. Each of those people of Southern Brooklyn, some lifers and others relatively new arrivals, had spilled neighborhood stories and […]