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‘There is help’: Samantha Goldsmith Fund brings hope to Brooklyn families on Random Acts of Kindness Day

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Stolen church van disrupts outreach services in East Flatbush

By Olivia Seaman

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Bedford-Stuyvesant

‘We’ve touched a lot of lives’: Bed-Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corps prepares to celebrate 37 years of service

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Brooklyn’s ‘big day’: Crowds gather for annual Dumbo Drop, benefiting local schools

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Greenpoint

Slice Out Hunger’s annual Pizza on the Pier brings NYC’s top pizzaioli together to fight food insecurity

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Community comes together to replace stolen Nonbinarian Book Bike

By Matt Tracy

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Carroll Gardens

Temporary Carroll Gardens Library to open in ‘underutilized’ Community Board 6 office space this summer

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Brooklyn Org Volunteer Day 2025

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Hundreds lend a hand across borough for Brooklyn Org Volunteer Day

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A civil rights lawyer by trade, Keegan Stephan started the community fridge to help out his neighbors

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Bed-Stuy man fights food insecurity with free front yard community fridge

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Red Hook

Red Hook school rallies to support migrant families amid housing crisis

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QNS

Mets owners award more than $116M to LaGuardia Community College to establish Cohen Career Collective on LIC campus

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Flatbush

Bishop Brennan of Brooklyn joins Catholic Charities for turkey giveaway

By Kirstyn Brendlen & Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil

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How Brooklynites came together during an unforgiving pandemic year

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Cobble Hill teachers connect struggling restaurants with hungry hospital workers

By Aidan Graham

Park Slope

Park Slope diner plasters windows with messages of support for healthcare heroes

By Ben Verde

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Grateful locals leave kind messages outside Borough Park hospital

By Rose Adams

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Kensington

Kensington restaurant delivering free lunches to those in need

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