Imagine your country is on the brink of war. Then you learn your two-year-old child has a large, cancerous brain tumor. This is exactly what the Negodiuk family from Kyiv, Ukraine has endured. Just two days before Russian bombs began to drop, their son Mark had emergency surgery. Once home, the family of three was forced […]
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Neighbors in Need: Family Flees Ukraine, Settles in Brooklyn Heights After Toddler’s Cancer Treatment
By SongBirdNYC on July 13, 2022 7:30 pm in Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Kids, Neighbors in Need, Parents, Vinegar Hill
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D13 CEC Hosts Electeds and Journalists for Forum on School Desgregation
By SongBirdNYC on May 15, 2017 1:37 am in Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Education, Events, Kids, Neighborhoods, Parents, schools, Vinegar Hill
Studies show that for all its diversity, NYC has one of the most segregated public school systems in the country. Almost two academic years after the re-zoning of P.S. 8 and P.S. 307, the District 13 Community Education Council will hold an important forum on Tuesday evening (May 16th) as part of its scheduled calendar […]
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Love Thy Neighbor: Upcoming Vote to Fund Community Projects
By SongBirdNYC on March 24, 2016 2:32 pm in Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Education, Government, Other Brooklyn, Politics, Vinegar Hill
It’s Participatory Budgeting time again and City Council Member Steve Levin wants to know how you would spend up to 1.5 million dollars of the city’s money. “These funds can go towards capital projects in our parks, our schools—or wherever else the residents of our district decide,” Council Member Levin explains via his Tumblr blog. Levin […]
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