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  • Aug 26, 2024 | brooklyneagle.com | Ximena Del Cerro

    Dozens of Jackson Heights neighbors attended a Back to School giveaway on Saturday. Liakas Law, a firm specializing in personal injury and civil rights, gathered a group of volunteers among their staff and handed out backpacks to children and families getting ready to start a new school year in a few weeks. According to the city’s Department of Education, New York has the largest school district in the country with roughly 915,000 students as of last year.

  • Jun 24, 2024 | brooklynpaper.com | Ximena Del Cerro |Brooklyn Paper

    Three-point shot!Fifth-grade students at Mill Basin’s PS 236 got a treat when Brooklyn Nets forward Cam Johnson showed up at their school. Johnson recently visited a class with dozens of students enrolled in the NETSTEM program. Kings County’s home team is providing an online course that covers science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for middle school and high school students throughout Brooklyn.

  • Jun 14, 2024 | brooklynpaper.com | Ximena Del Cerro |Brooklyn Paper

    Hundreds of New Yorkers descended upon City Hall on Wednesday in to voice their opinions on Brooklyn Council Member Chi Ossé’s bill to shift the onus of costly broker fees off of tenants and on to landlords. Intro. 360, also known as FARE Act —Fairness in Apartment Rental Expenses — would require whoever hires the broker to pay the fees. More often than not, it’s the landlord who has hired the broker, but the renter who must absorb the sometimes-exorbitant fees.

  • Jun 14, 2024 | politicsny.com | Ximena Del Cerro

    Posted on Hundreds of New Yorkers descended upon City Hall on Wednesday in to voice their opinions on Brooklyn Council Member Chi Ossé’s bill to shift the onus of costly broker fees off of tenants and on to landlords. Intro. 360, also known as FARE Act —Fairness in Apartment Rental Expenses — would require whoever hires the broker to pay the fees.

  • Jun 13, 2024 | brooklynpaper.com | Ximena Del Cerro |Brooklyn Paper

    Last week, Fort Greene officials inaugurated a 13-story, 104-unit affordable housing building for formerly homeless individuals and households with extremely low to moderate incomes. Within the first two weeks of opening in January, the lottery for 87 of 104 units received 70,000 entries. The development, a former orphanage now called Hanson Place Community Plaza, is owned by the The Hanson Place Church Support Corporation.

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