BrooklynEagle – By Brooklyn Eagle Staff | Published July 7, 2025
BOROUGHWIDE — TWO BROOKLYN CITY COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE TEAMED UP ON A SOLUTION TO THE UPCOMING EXPIRATION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 support and the e-waste that is expected to result from it.
Councilmembers Shahana Hanif (D-39) and Jennifer Gutiérrez (D-34) on Monday, July 7, are sponsoring the Brooklyn Laptop Fix-a-thon to reduce e-waste and support local literacy programs.
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DailyNews – By GRAHAM RAYMAN | Published Jun 12, 2025 |
The City Council voted 51-0 Wednesday to pass a bill designed to expand access to the overdose prevention drug Narcan in the city jails — a response, in part, to the fallout from the 10 OD deaths behind bars in 2022 and 2023.
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Published by Brooklynspeaks | June 3, 2025
Empire State Development declines to honor a 2014 settlement that provided for monetary damages if affordable apartments are delayed past May 2025, instead trying a new version of a risky single-source strategy under which two previous developers failed.
BROOKLYN, NY, June 3, 2025: Eleven years after local organizations in the BrooklynSpeaks coalition
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | May 22, 2025
Press Contact: Mus Lamia | mlamia@council.nyc.gov | Clio Rose | media@gothamfoodpantry.org
As hunger soars past pandemic levels and federal safety nets collapse, Gotham Food Pantry and CHiPS help keep Brooklyn families fed
Brooklyn, NY — In response to drastic federal cuts to hunger relief programs and rising need, today, Council Member Shahana Hanif announced $20,000 in discretionary funding earmarked in her FY26 budget to support two frontline organizations: Gotham Food Pantry and Community Help in Park Slope (CHiPS).
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New York Post – By Nicole Rosenthal | May 15, 2025
These Brooklyn musicians are playing to deaf ears.
Tenants at a band rehearsal space near Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal are taking matters into their own hands and pooling funds to hire a private company to test for cancer-causing vapors inside the building after the landlord refused to let state inspectors inside.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | May 5, 2025
Press Contact: Mus Lamia | mlamia@council.nyc.gov
Council Member Shahana Hanif Announces $1.5 Million in Community-Funded Projects, along with Record-Breaking Turnout and School Engagement in District 39’s Participatory Budgeting
Brooklyn, NY | Yesterday, Council Member Shahana Hanif announced the winning project proposals of the 2024-2025 Participatory Budgeting (PB) Cycle, which saw the highest participation in the district’s 14-year PB history.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle – By Raanan Geberer | April 25, 2025
BOERUM HILL — Plans to transform a city-owned parking lot in Boerum Hill into a new rent-stabilized senior housing development were announced Thursday by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
The dilapidated lot on Third Avenue, between Bergen and Wyckoff Streets, will be converted into approximately 68 units of affordable senior housing.
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