Calming Local Ebola Fears
REASSURING WORDS: The first confirmed Ebola case in New York launched efforts to assuage concerns and educate the public on how the virus is spread.
Place: Brooklyn
via Gotham Gazette
Homeowners’ Long, Bitter Wait
A city report found what many New Yorkers who lost homes to Sandy already new: the Build it Back program has left thousands in a frustrating game.
via Bensonhurst Bean
Park’s Long Sandy Comeback
Nearly two years after the storm, power has returned to McDonald Playground, allowing the reopening of the bathrooms.
via Brooklyn Based
Brooklyn’s Meaning of Life
Brooklyn Public Philosophers discuss questions even bigger than the borough.
via Voices of NY
Ebola Hits Home in Brooklyn
A Park Slope non-profit group is scrambling to get supplies to a clinic it runs in Liberia.
Vermouth Maker’s Touch of Glass
Bianca Miraglia’s start-up company, Uncouth Vermouth, produces only a few hundred cases annually – and that’s how she likes it.
via New York Daily News
NYCHA Security Cameras Blocked
Scaffolding blocks the views of five security cameras at the Van Dyke Houses in Brownsville.
via The Jewish Daily Forward
Kosher Soup Kitchen Struggles
The Masbia soup kitchen, which serves Jewish and non-Jewish clients, expects to serve up to 1.5 million meals this year — twice the number doled out in 2013.