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NY: Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield hosts backpack giveaway

Anthem Blue Cross and community partners gear up Sunset Park kids for new school year

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Family Health Centers receive $600k grant to expand anti-overdose education programs in Brooklyn

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Teal ribbons tie together community effort for ovarian cancer awareness in Park Slope

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Brooklyn teen meets ‘hero’ donor who saved his life with bone marrow transplant

By Adam Daly

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Bay Ridge

Give blood at these Brooklyn and Manhattan locations to prevent Labor Day shortage

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil

NY: BRAVO Volunteer Ambulance Service

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Bay Ridge volunteer ambulance group BRAVO celebrates 50 years of service

By Gabriele Holtermann

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AMNY

Health Department to spray parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn for disease-carrying mosquitoes next week

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AMNY

Queens and Brooklyn beaches closed again on Monday thanks to Hurricane Ernesto

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Taking back control of the mind: Hypnotherapist Glenn Rottmann

By Michael Zavatsky

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Garden State greens: Salad House sprouts first Brooklyn location in Sheepshead Bay

By Natalie Dahan

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BP Reynoso launches $50,000 fund to support community baby showers for new parents

By Jada Camille

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Bushwick

CenterLight Healthcare PACE reopens Bushwick center with Carnival celebration

By Gabriele Holtermann

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BP Reynoso tours T.E.A.L. community center ahead of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

By Gabriele Holtermann

NY: CABS Health Network Ribbon cutting

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CABS Health Network cuts ribbon on new headquarters in Bed-Stuy’s Pfizer Building

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Maimonides Health celebrates first anniversary of Bay Ridge Emergency Department

By Jada Camille

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NYC rolls out ‘Rat Pack’ to help keep rodents away ‘on the street where you live’

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AMNY

Measles outbreak at Brooklyn migrant shelter sickens two residents

Bay Ridge Cares says thank you with a luau-themed awards ceremony.

Bay Ridge

‘A chance to say thank you’: Bay Ridge Center hosts annual ‘Giving Celebration’ to thank community

By Jada Camille

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Healthcare workers rally for fair contract amid staffing crisis at Coney Island hospital

By Gabriele Holtermann

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AMNY

Brooklyn’s Dr. Sandra Scott on bringing trust back to healthcare within the LGBTQIA+ community

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Jennifer Hudson is pictured with an excited fan after singing in the audience at her inaugural concert at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre on Flatbush to promote her very first Christmas album, “The Give of Love,” during an intimate live experience on Nov.24, 2024.

Jennifer Hudson shines at Christmas concert to share Christmas album ‘Gift of Love,’ at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn

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