In one attempt to improve students’ lunch options, the New York City Department of Education began offering schools all-you-can-eat salad bars. PS 151 in Bushwick ordered its salad bar last year, but did not receive it until last month. And even though the salad bar is now at the school, John Espineli, the school’s SchoolFood...
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May 11, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life, Video
[VIDEO] Disabled New Yorkers Struggle to Get Around
Trudging up the stairs on the subway, it’s easy to forget that there are New Yorkers who can’t make it past a single step. They suffer from mobility issues or need a wheelchair to get around.
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April 17, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
A Tasting for Brooklyn Palates
What ever you were in the mood for Tuesday night, you could have found at The Green Building in Cobble Hill at the third annual Tasting Brooklyn event.
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March 20, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
SUNY Orders LICH Closure Again in Court-Ordered Public Meeting
Tuesday afternoon, the State University of New York voted, once again, to close Long Island College Hospital, citing financial difficulties. A Brooklyn judge ruled last week that SUNY’s Board of Trustees had to hold a public meeting on the closure to comply with the Open Meetings Law. Now, for the LICH closure to go forward, the state Department of Health...
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March 15, 2013September 30, 2019Video
VIDEO: Brooklyn Keeps Sipping: Soda Ban Overturned
After the soda ban was overturned, Brooklyn movie theaters, along with the soft drink industry and civil rights groups who'd filed a lawsuit against the ban, breathed a sigh of relief.
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February 27, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
An Aquarium in Brooklyn Will Partly Reopen in Spring
The New York Aquarium in Brooklyn, which was closed after flooding caused by the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy in October, will partly reopen in the late spring.
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February 26, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
De Blasio Urges NBA to Hold 2015 All-Star Game at Barclays Center, Not MSG
De Blasio, the city's public advocate and mayoral candidate, has joined a Brooklyn labor union in holding the Madison Square Garden Company executive chairman James Dolan accountable for alleged labor violations they say he committed as CEO of Cablevision.
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February 22, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
A Taste of Vegan Brooklyn
Many people do not equate a vegan diet to delicious food – more often, cardboard is the closest descriptive word, but Brooklyn vegans are working hard to change that misconception with new vegan restaurant and bakeries around the borough.
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February 22, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Vestige of Bygone Era Endures Time, and Talk of Its Demise
Gowanus Brooklynites were startled recently by an Internet rumor that the 8-story tall "Kentile Floors" sign would be torn down, though the report turned out to be false.
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February 22, 2013September 30, 2019Live Wire
Brooklyn Construction Company Shortchanged Workers, Prosecutors Say
The leaders of the Brooklyn based SM&B Construction Company, were charged in federal court on Thursday with defrauding New York City’s School Construction Authority of more than $32 million.