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Some aren’t ready to give up masks despite new CDC guidance

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Virus testing strategies, opinions vary widely in US schools

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Brooklyn’s Rachel Loeb named new head of EDC

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Brooklyn resident Rachel Loeb, who had been the acting president and CEO...

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Flatbush landlord charged with manslaughter in ‘dead man’s room’ fire

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Around Brooklyn: Kathryn Garcia wants senior centers to reopen

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Reaching for new heights in DUMBO

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Identity theft surged in NY during pandemic

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"We are producing too much plastic"

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Read the informative opinon on plastic here. Also, this week city council passed an anti-plastic bill banning stirrers, and curbing the use of straws.

Unwelcome Morgue

Activists Petition City To Remove Bodies Stored in Trucks

Sunset Park residents are calling on the city to relocate 750 bodies of COVID-19 victims from refrigerated trucks on the neighborhood’s 39th Street Pier to out of the area. Read more, here.

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Clarification on the term 'Affordable Housing' seems to be a moving target in political and developmental terms, depending on whether is it built as a concession, or as a purposeful, geographically-based asset. Mitchell-Lama projects, most dating from the 1960s, were an amazing urban success. One of those projects just outside the historic district lines of Brooklyn Heights, served as a model for some of the ideas of City Council candidate Toba Potosky. He knows it well because he lives there. His new Five Point Plan for better housing in NYC is linked here.

Brooklyn Bird Watch

A reader enjoyed a recent report on woodpeckers. Brooklyn Heights resident Pia Scala-Zankel sent this photo of a woodpecker spotted on Willow Street between Cranberry and Middagh… Also inside: update on how Mourning Dovesgot their scientific name. Hint: it traces back to Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother.
Read more in  Brooklyn Bird Watch. 

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A Cedar Waxwing, seen in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Jan A Cedar Waxwing, seen in Brooklyn Bridge Park, January 2021. The Waxwings have a colorful scientific name: Bombycilla cedrorum. In no danger of extinction, they love fruit. Over-ripe berries that have fermented in the sun have intoxicated flocks of cedar waxwings, causing them to crash into windows. Photo by Heather Wolf, author of BIRDING AT THE BRIDGE. Join the Eagle family of supporters and get daily updates on Brooklyn news (and birds).
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