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A frame from a TikTok video shows what a woman described as a razor blade she found in a hot dog purchased at the Brooklyn landmark

AMNY

Hard to swallow: NYC probes Nathan’s Famous Coney Island flagship after family says razor found in hot dog

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Health

‘It’s about the fight’: Brooklyn residents share stories of breast cancer survival and community support

By Olivia Seaman

Asian woman show pink ribbon as sign of October Breast Cancer Awareness month

AMNY

Rising rates of early-onset breast cancer: Busting the myths

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News

Maimonides Health to celebrate breast cancer survivors at 14th annual Pink Runway

By Olivia Seaman

Mount Sinai's Mammvon is providing breast cancer screenings across NYC.

AMNY

Mount Sinai’s Mammovan hits the road to bring screening access to every borough

Maimonides marks milestone with opening of state-of-the-art Clinton Hill Pavilion

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil

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Bay Ridge

Tribeca Pediatrics expands Bay Ridge footprint with new Fort Hamilton office

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil

Gay City News

Bellevue’s chief psychiatrist underscores importance of ‘behavioral cues’ and warning signs in suicide prevention

Hochul receives COVID-19 shot from pharmacist

AMNY

Hochul seeks to keep COVID-19 vaccine available to all New Yorkers despite RFK Jr.-led restrictions on lifesaving shot

L: New York City Department for the Aging Commissioner Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez. R: Tracy Walsh, in center, with co-workers from Bryan Skilled Home Care Agency in Amityville.

AMNY

Caregiving summit seeks solution amid shortage

Shine Movement Pilates

Shine Movement Pilates brings health and confidence to Williamsburg

By Olivia Seaman

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Red Hook

Addabbo Health Center earns national recognition for patient-centered care

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil

NY: Woodhull Hospital Groundbreaking of Labor and Birthing Suite

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Brooklyn Beep, Woodhull Hospital break ground on $20M birthing suite upgrade

By Gabriele Holtermann

Social Security 90th Anniversary

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Slices and stories: AARP marks 90 years of Social Security at Bed-Stuy pizza pop-up

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil & Paul Frangipane

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AMNY

Push to ban NYC carriage horse industry continues with City Hall rally days after equine’s death

people dressed in white crossing a street in Harlem during a Legionnaires' disease outbreak.

AMNY

Legionnaires’ outbreak in Harlem exposes grim future risks for NYC as steep Medicaid cuts loom

Maimonides Health summer youth employment

Maimonides honors nearly 300 students in Brooklyn summer jobs program

By Olivia Seaman

Dolores Catania Battle for Brooklyn

Dolores Catania leads Bravolebrities in ‘Battle 4 Brooklyn’ charity softball game at Maimonides Park

By Olivia Seaman

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Hospitals in Crisis

Medicaid cuts could force Brooklyn’s safety-net hospitals to close, leave thousands uninsured

By Kirstyn Brendlen

community baby shower

Health

Community Baby Shower Fund returns to support high-risk maternal health neighborhoods

By Gabriele Holtermann

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“Blue Moon," directed by Richard Linklater, is running at the Angelika Film Center and the AMC Lincoln Square 13.

Ethan Hawke stars as fading lyricist in melancholic ‘Blue Moon’

Classic Caribbean Brown Stew Oxtail recipe.

Classic Caribbean Brown Stew Oxtail

Things to Do with the Kids This Weekend in Westchester

New York Family

19 Things to Do with the Kids This Weekend in Westchester

Tens of thousands of New Yorkers peacefully marched from the heart of the Big Apple to Lower Manhattan on Saturday in protest of President Trump and his policies, including the escalation of violence against United States citizens.

‘No Kings’ march in NYC sees more than 100,000 marchers speak out against Trump, no arrests or disruptions