One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, or so the adage goes. It started with a late-afternoon post to Buy Nothing Brooklyn Heights/Dumbo/Vinegar Hill. St. Ann’s School had just dumped hundreds of books in the trash. “Curb Alert: Close to 40 Clinton by the parking garage at 3:50pm Tuesday…Hundreds of books. So many good ones.” The post fomented […]
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St. Ann’s School Dumps Hundreds of Books On Clinton Street
By SongBirdNYC on August 9, 2022 8:42 pm in 11201, Brooklyn Heights, Children's Books, Education, Lame Excuses, Literature, News, schools, Schools
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Open Letter To An Anti-Vaxxer
By SongBirdNYC on January 8, 2022 6:56 pm in 11201, Brooklyn Heights, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Government, Health, Public Safety, Stupidity
On Tuesday, a flyer titled “The Replacement Game,” was taped to a lamppost directly in front of my building. There’s no sugarcoating it. The message was racist, homo/transphobic, and Anti-Semitic. The “designer” relies on a smug false equivalency to plead their case, portraying anger toward anti-vaxxers as bullying and akin to discrimination against the Black, LGBTQ+, and Jewish […]
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Alleged Racial Profiling Incident at Brooklyn Heights Key Food
For Andrea Kelly, it was a weekday morning like any other. On her way to work at a prominent neighborhood physical therapy practice, the 33-year-old African American woman stopped into Key Food on Montague Street to pick up something for lunch. She’s done this practically every day for the past year. The staff knows her. […]
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