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USTA breast cancer awareness event

Health

Playing in pink! Brooklynites unite for Breast Cancer Awareness Month with tennis camp

By Jada Camille

breast cancer awareness ribbon-tying

Health

Go Pink! Local orgs hang pink ribbons for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Cypress Hills

By Jada Camille

NY: 2024 Pink Runway

Maimonides kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with Pink Runway Fashion Show

By Gabriele Holtermann

home care settlement

Health

Two Brooklyn-based home care agencies agree to pay $7.5 million in unpaid pages to more than 25,000 employees: AG

By Adam Daly

Flatbush

Ditmas Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center celebrates community with vibrant carnival block party

By Brooklyn Paper

Kelly Rowland and Baby2Baby deliver maternal health and newborn supply kits to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County

‘When Love Takes Over’: Singer Kelly Rowland partners with maternal aid non-profit to to support new mothers

By Jada Camille

NY: 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers show support for Haitian Community

Brooklyn healthcare workers stand with Haitian immigrants, denounce Trump’s ‘pet eating’ claims

By Gabriele Holtermann

park slope pharmacy free doctor visits

Park Slope

This Park Slope pharmacy is offering free online doctor visits next week

By Adam Daly

T.E.A.L. ovarian cancer walk

Health

Hundreds turn out to raise money for ovarian cancer at 16th annual T.E.A.L. 5k

Gabriele Holtermann

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

nyc family health center

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

By Kirstyn Brendlen

NY: T.E.A.L.

Park Slope

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

By Gabriele Holtermann

bone marrow donor meeting

Health

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

By Adam Daly

World donor day concept with hand holding paper red drop on white background

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

Bay Ridge

Bay Ridge volunteer ambulance group BRAVO celebrates 50 years of service

By Gabriele Holtermann

Mosquito on human skin during summer months

AMNY

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

Beaches closed sign on Rockaway Beach

AMNY

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

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Health

Taking back control of the mind: Hypnotherapist Glenn Rottmann

By Michael Zavatsky

saladbar-sheepsheadbay

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

By Natalie Dahan

reynoso community baby shower

Politics

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

By Jada Camille

More from Around New York

Ellen Adair, Mitzi Akaha, and Scott Thomas in "Coming Out Polyamorous."

Chain NYC Festival, set for mid-August, offers six LGBTQ shorts

Family members and friends gathered on July 13, 2025, to honor outstanding students at the 4th Annual Empowering Dreams Across Borders: The McGowan Foundation, Inc.

Dream big: McGowan Foundation awards bright futures at 4th Annual Gala

Things to Do This Weekend in NYC with Kids

New York Family

12 Things to Do This Weekend with the Kids in NYC

police officers escort person away from mass shooting scene

Midtown mass shooting was NYC’s deadliest in 25 years in an era when America sees hundreds of massacres annually