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edward r murrow high school

Midwood

15-year-old boy stabbed at Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood

By Kirstyn Brendlen

bensonhurst students taylor & co.

Kids & Education

Bensonhurst students showcase their first published works in Ditmas Park bookstore

By Jada Camille

Nandy Del Castillo, member of the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society parents network,

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Toddlers and entrepreneurial parents find support network at the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society

By Ximena Del Cerro

Brooklyn Children's Museum names new CEO, Atiba Edwards.

Atiba T. Edwards named Brooklyn Children’s Museum CEO, first Black man to lead in museum’s 125-year history

By Jada Camille

fort hamilton school bay ridge

Bay Ridge teacher criticized for making anti-Palestinian remarks on social media

By Jada Camille

UFT members at oversized class rally

Kids & Education

Teachers’ union says 300,000 New York City students are in oversized classes despite class size law

By Augostina Mallous

opposites abstract mo willems exhibit

Kids & Education

‘Opposites Abstract: A Mo Willems Exhibit’ headed to Brooklyn Children’s Museum

By Kirstyn Brendlen

ribbon cutting teen tech center at Brooklyn Public Library

Kids & Education

Brooklyn Public Library opens two new Teen Tech Centers, hopes to inspire next generation of engineers, entrepreneurs, and scientists

By Melissa Fishman

New Sunset Park Library

Sunset Park library prepares to open in new building

By Cate Corcoran

BAMboo trick-or-streets

Kids & Education

Trick-or-Streets returns to Brooklyn with dozens of locations for Halloween fun

By Brooklyn Paper

Coney Island halloween parade

Spook-tacular! Coney Island gearing up for 13th annual Halloween Parade on Oct. 28

By Augostina Mallous

adams and president of brooklyn public library

Kids & Education

Brooklyn Public Library expands ‘Books Unbanned’ program as city proclaims ‘Freedom to Read Day’

By Augostina Mallous

The Boricua Festival Committee, The Alliance for Puerto Rican Education and Empowerment, and the Sunset Park community held a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday

Sunset Park school officially named after Puerto Rican activist Dr. Antonia Pantoja, ‘a role model for all of us’

By Adam Daly

Students gather at Maimonides Medical Center

Kids & Education

Bringing the heat! Maimonides Medical Center launches new student internship program

By Jada Camille

teacher in classroom GoFundMe

Kids & Education

Faced with tight school budgets, Brooklyn parents and educators turn to GoFundMe for support

By Megan McGibney

Prospect Park Boathouse on the water.

Kids & Education

A different kind of back-to-school: University Open Air offers free classes from teachers around the world in Prospect Park

By Isabel Song Beer

More from Around New York

Makyyla Holland, 25, filed a lawsuit that prompted the Broome County Jail to implement policies for the treatment of LGBTQ people in custody.

Advocates renew push to protect incarcerated trans people in New York

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Consul General to the United States Rondy "Luta" McIntosh, center, receives plague, on behalf of Vincentian Prime Minister Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves, from Dr. Ken Irish-Bramble, to McIntosh's left, chair of Brooklyn's Medgar Evers College's (MEC) Caribbean Research Center, in June 2023 in commemorating Caribbean-American History Month at MEC. Others in photo from left: Horace Davis, president of Caribbean-American Society of New York; MEC Provost Dr. Antoinette Coleman; Sherrill-Ann Mason-Haywood, director of MEC's Seek Program; Dr. Evelyn Castro, senior advisor to MEC President Dr. Patricia Ramsey; and Anna Walker, representative of the Caribbean-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI).

SVG Diaspora Committee of NY head ‘very happy’ about call for greater youth engagement

Dining with Santa on Long Island 2023

New York Family

Dining with Santa on Long Island 2023

JG Pageau Islanders Kings

Islanders complete frenzied 3rd-period comeback, JG Pageau scores OT winner to beat Kings 3-2