AI-GENERATED ‘UGLY BEAUTIES’ ON DISPLAY IN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN

DOWNTOWN — ‘UGLY BEAUTIES,’ AN AI-GENERATED ARTWORK by way of artist Curry J. Hackett that includes pictures of Black other folks immersed in so-called “weeds,” is on show at The Plaza at 300 Ashland. Commissioned by way of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership with reinforce from Two Trees Management Co. and Van Alen Institute, Ugly Beauties includes a panoramic show of pictures that advised audience to imagine society’s belief of attractiveness and belonging, and “captures the spirit of the neighborhood,” stated DBP’s President Regina Myer.

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“With residents, shoppers, workers, diners, and other visitors rushing around the neighborhood, we hope this piece will impart a moment of reflection and help Brooklynites to realize the beauty all around them,” Myer stated. “Ugly Beauties” might be on view till May 2, 2024.

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BROOKLYN JAIL CONSTRUCTION VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETING MARCH 26

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BOERUM HILL — A PUBLIC MEETING WITH THE DESIGN-BUILDER for the Brooklyn Borough-Based Jail Facility, deliberate for Atlantic Avenue and State Street in Boerum Hill, will happen on-line on Tuesday, March 26, from 6-7 p.m., consistent with the Cobble Hill Association. The builder will provide an outline of the undertaking’s development way, development agenda and milestones, environmental tracking plan and upcoming development actions. RSVP online.

The design of the deliberate $3 billion Brooklyn Detention Center at 275 Atlantic Ave. has modified since an settlement used to be hammered out in 2019 — to the detriment of each the group and the inmates, citizens and officers say.

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MISSING GIRL IN SHEEPSHEAD BAY

SHEEPSHEAD BAY – POLICE ARE ASKING THE PUBLIC FOR HELP IN FINDING MISSING teenager Polina Kovalevska, age 14, who used to be closing observed leaving her place of abode close to the Sheepshead Bay B/Q station at the evening of Monday, March 11. Polina is described as roughly 5’3” and 125 kilos, with a mild complexion and brown hair, and used to be closing observed dressed in a grey hooded sweater, black sweatpants and white footwear.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public too can put up their pointers by way of logging onto the CrimeStoppers site at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (Twitter) @NYPDTips.

Missing girl Polina Kovalevska. All calls are strictly confidential. — Missing lady Polina Kovalevska. All calls are strictly confidential.

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TOWN HALL MEETING ON SUNY DOWNSTATE

FLATBUSH – COMMUNITY BOARDS 9 AND 13 ARE HOSTING A JOINT TOWN HALL assembly on Monday to talk about the way forward for SUNY Downstate health center, which has been suffering with ongoing price range problems and construction restore wishes. After Governor Hochul in January directed the college machine to create a “transformation plan” to rehabilitate the suffering health center, union leaders for group of workers at Downstate have warned that SUNY’s proposal would see the most important departments like its psychological well being program relocated to different amenities, doubtlessly resulting in “downsizing” within the type of process losses and the removal of residency placements for clinical scholars, in addition to the conversion of one of the most campus to different makes use of like housing. Advocates concern that the plan is a solution to jumpstart the closure of but every other Brooklyn health center.

The the town corridor assembly will happen on Monday, March 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. on the High School for Public Service.

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NEW APARTMENT TOWER PLANNED FOR RED HOOK

RED HOOK – A MAJOR NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IS PLANNED for the website of a present Red Hook strip mall, reports Crain’s New York Business: developer Express Builders has filed plans to construct an 8-story-tall, 227,000-square-foot tower at 498 Columbia Street, providing 371 flats and group area at the floor ground. The tower is a part of an offer for the website that might see two extra equivalent structures erected at the grounds of the present one-story industrial construction, in addition to a landscaped inexperienced house; the website is a part of the state’s Brownfield Cleanup Program, and decontamination efforts are set to start out this spring.

Development in Red Hook may just grow to be extra horny after this week’s passage by way of the City Council of the Our Air Our Water Act, which calls for the huge cruise ships that dock on the community’s terminal to hook up with {the electrical} grid as a substitute of burning diesel gasoline, that means native air air pollution might be considerably decreased.

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BOEING MANAGER TURNED WHISTLEBLOWER FOUND DEAD OF GUNSHOT WOUND DURING HEARINGS ON COMPANY’S SAFETY ISSUES

CHARLESTON, SC — IN THE LATEST WOE FOR THE AVIATION GIANT BOEING, A LONGTIME QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER TURNED WHISTLEBLOWER used to be discovered useless in his truck over the weekend in Charleston, South Carolina, the place he used to be attesting on protection considerations, experiences the British Broadcasting Corporation. John Barnett, a 30-year Boeing worker who had labored on the North Charleston plant construction the 787 Dreamliner, had advised the BBC 5 years in the past that assembly-line staff have been underneath such force they short-shifted protection protocol by way of intentionally becoming sub-standard portions to plane at the manufacturing line. Barnett had additionally exposed severe issues of the oxygen programs, doubtlessly inflicting them to malfunction in an emergency. Although Boeing had denied Barnett’s assertions, a 2017 evaluation by way of the Federal Aviation Administration upheld a few of Mr. Barnett’s considerations and ordered Boeing to take corrective movements.

Authorities advised the BBC that Barnett died of a “self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.” On the day of his dying, he were scheduled for wondering in an ongoing felony dispute he had initiated. Investigators are operating at the case.

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WATER SHUTOFFS SCHEDULED FOR PARTS OF CROWN HEIGHTS

CROWN HEIGHTS — TEMPORARY WATER SHUTDOWN ADVISORIES WERE POSTED IN PARTS OF CROWN HEIGHTS WITH LITTLE NOTICE, experiences Brooklyn Community Board 9. District Manager Dante Arnwine despatched a dispatch to the community on Tuesday night time, March 12 upon finding out of a water provider interruption scheduled for Wednesday morning, March 13 from 9 a.m. to at least one p.m. for structures at the south aspect of President Street between Kingston and Troy avenues; and structures on all sides of the road on Albany Avenue between Eastern Parkway and President St. Water shutoffs on Thursday, March 14, from 9 a.m. to at least one p.m. have an effect on structures at the north aspect of President St. between Kingston and Albany avenues; on Friday, March 15, from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. in structures on all sides of Kingston Avenue between President and Union streets, and on Monday, March 18, from 9 a.m. to at least one p.m. in structures on all sides of Albany Avenue between President and Crown streets.

The water shutdown is vital to check the capability of the prevailing water primary valves, consistent with the NYC Department of Design and Construction’s posted advisories.

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EVICTION OF LONG-ESTABLISHED FOOD PANTRY ANGERS VOLUNTEERS, COMMUNITY

PARK SLOPE — MEMBERS OF A COMBINED ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH IN PARK SLOPE ARE PROTESTING THE CLOSURE AND EVICTION OF THE HELPING HANDS FOOD PANTRY, in addition to different ministries that serve needy and unwell individuals of their group. Father Frank Tumino, who used to be assigned to the related parishes of St. Augustine-St. Francis Xavier in 2021 to reinforce them all through the pandemic, knowledgeable Helping Hands on Feb. 20 that its closing day could be Saturday, March 16. Other customary ministries, together with a per thirty days dinner for AIDS sufferers and their households and a Christmas celebration for kids of incarcerated individuals, have been additionally discontinued for some difficult causes. (See THE CITY tale, somewhere else on this version.)

Diocesan spokesman John Quaglione in a remark to THE CITY credited Fr. Tumino (who had a Wall Street banking profession background) with expanding attendance on the mixed parishes. However, a number of of the ousted ministries’ volunteers are parishioners who assert that Fr. Tumino has violated the Gospel commandments to assist the needy.

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CITY HARVEST DELIVERS HALAL FOOD FOR BROOKLYNITES OBSERVING RAMADAN

FLATBUSH — CITY HARVEST AND THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION (COPO) based totally in Flatbush teamed up this month to assist feed the group all through the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. City Harvest’s New York’s first and biggest meals rescue group, via its halal meals program, delivered 10 pallets of dried dates and rice flour to COPO and 5 different companies. AKC Commodities Inc. additionally donated 30,360 kilos of dried dates — which is the standard first meals that Muslims devour on the conclusion of every day’s rapid. The group works to be sure that Muslim New Yorkers going through meals lack of confidence around the town are ready to search out culturally suitable substances during Ramadan (and will accomplish that via City Harvest’s web page).

The Council of Peoples Organization (COPO) used to be based proper after 9/11 to counter anti-Muslim hatred and misperceptions about Islam. The not-for-profit COPO has expanded to serve the South Asian group offering more than one services and products from psychological well being to elder grownup methods, and companions with a number of executive and church entities.

A City Harvest volunteer delivers bins to COPO’s Coney Island Ave. headquarters.
Photo: Paul Frangipane/courtesy of City Harvest

COPO Founder and CEO Mohmmad Razvi (at left) thank you the City Harvest supply volunteer.
Photo: Paul Frangipane/courtesy of City Harvest

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STATE HEALTH DEPT. REQUIRES SCREENINGS FOR HEPATITIS C STARTING IN MAY

STATEWIDE — TRYING TO REVERSE A NATIONWIDE SPIKE IN HEPATITIS C INFECTIONS AMONG ADULTS OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE, The NY State Department of Health would require everybody over 18 with a possibility to be presented a screening check, beginning on May 3. These new necessities align New York State with the present Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HCV screening suggestions. Individuals more youthful than 18 should even be presented a Hepatitis C screening if proof or indication of possibility job exists. If an individual’s Hepatitis C screening check is reactive, then a Hepatitis C ribonucleic acid check (RNA) should even be carried out at the similar specimen, or a 2nd specimen accumulated concurrently the preliminary hepatitis C screening check specimen, to verify the analysis of present an infection.

The Department of Health experiences that the selection of new hepatitis C infections has doubled since 2014.

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BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER, CLEARWAY HEALTH PARTNER ON MEETING NEW HEPATITIS SCREENING RULES

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER HAS PARTNERED WITH CLEARWAY HEALTH to conform to the State Department of Health’s new necessities on Hepatitis C screenings. Their partnership comes to growing a screening and remedy program via their strong point pharmacy that can release in May. The new program at The Brooklyn Hospital Center comprises stepped forward trying out protocols, medical workflows, affected person training, and remedy plans for the emergency division, number one care, and maternal and fetal medication. TBHC and Clearway additionally emphasize the significance of offering sufferers with getting the care and administrative assist they want in acquiring prior authorizations from the affected person’s well being plan, discovering vouchers and coupons, and making sure sufferers conform to their drugs.

HCV remedy calls for strong point medicine, and sufferers continuously stumble upon affordability hindrances with the strong point drugs that HCV remedy calls for. In some instances, sufferers’ well being plans exclude those medications from protection tiers or assign top co-pays.

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HOUSE VOTES 352-65 ON BILL BANNING TIKTOK, AS BROOKLYN LEADERS RAISE FREE-SPEECH CONCERNS

CAPITOL HILL — AMERICA’S 150 MILLION USERS OF TIKTOK, INCLUDING TOP INFLUENCERS IN BROOKLYN, may just lose get admission to to the video-sharing app now that the U.S. House of Representatives has handed law to prohibit the provider, experiences the Daily News. The House on Wednesday, March 13, voted 352-65 to go the invoice, with an extraordinary bipartisan reinforce in this divisive factor. The invoice’s language would ban the preferred video-sharing app except its Chinese proprietor, ByteDance, divests within the corporate. American politicians have known as TikTok a countrywide safety danger as a result of they declare the Chinese executive may just achieve get admission to to customers’ knowledge, specifically via rules in China that require compliance with sure investigations.

However, the invoice has its detractors, who declare that TikTok helped them grow to be marketers. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who’s from Brooklyn, didn’t decide to bringing the invoice into the higher chamber, and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-11) stated she voted for the ban. And Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-12), whose district previously incorporated Brooklyn, cited First Amendment problems for constituents who would lose the provider.

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ALL BUT ONE BROOKLYN CONGRESSMEMBERS VOTE YES ON BILL REQUIRING FOREIGN DIVESTMENT FROM TIKTOK

CAPITOL HILL — THE BILL TO BAN TIKTOK GOT ‘YEA’ VOTES FROM ALL BUT ONE OF BROOKLYN’S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION on Wednesday, consistent with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives’ website. House Democratic (Minority) Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-8), and Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-9), Dan Goldman (D-10) and Nicole Malliotakis (R-11), voted for the invoice. Rep. Malliotakis, issuing a remark at the extra formally-named Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, defined that the invoice doesn’t in reality ban the app however fairly forces ByteDance, which, she asserts is managed by way of the Chinese Communist Party, to divest from TikTok. “Currently, there are no safeguards on ByteDance to protect personal data, meaning the company can collect passwords, contacts, photos, texts, location and biometric data about our children and freely share it with the CCP,” she stated.

The sole Brooklyn Congressmember to vote “nay” at the invoice used to be Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-7/Northern Brooklyn and Queens) who, as of press time, had now not but launched a remark relating to her determination.

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GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY’S PRESIDENT WILL RECEIVE 2024 PILLAR OF NY AWARD

GREENWOOD HEIGHTS — RICHARD J. MOYLAN, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL LANDMARK GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY, WILL BE HONORED Thursday, March 14, on the 2024 Pillar of New York Awards. The Preservation League of New York State items the Pillar of New York Awards to those that have taken atypical motion to offer protection to, maintain and advertise New York’s inventive and architectural heritage. Moylan, who has labored at The Green-Wood Cemetery for greater than 50 years and who has served as president since 1986, reworked Green-Wood right into a cultural heart inside of its group by way of prioritizing training, arts programming, environmental tasks, and ancient preservation, environment a brand new ordinary for cemeteries around the nation. Under Moylan’s management, the cemetery received National Historic Landmark standing in 2006. Recently, Green-Wood launched into a daring enterprise to create a one-of-a-kind Education and Welcome Center to serve its group.

Moylan is a recipient of the Fine Arts Federation’s perfect honor and the 2016 Place Maker award of the Foundation for Landscape Studies.