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hi! unfortunately, my cat unexpectedly passed away, and since she was almost 9, I have 2 big bags of senior food I need to donate. I’m in the process of adopting through Flatbush Cats and they don’t typically recommend dry food diets so I wanted to see if there was anywhere else that would take these off my hands. I’m located in Bed-Stuy near the C so preferably somewhere that’s easy for me to access or can come pick it up. Thank you in advance! 🩷

Hi everyone,

I'm an incoming grad student at Pratt for the fall. I've started looking at health insurance options/providers and wanted know what people recommend.

About me:

• I'm pretty healthy
• I would like to consult a therapist at least 1x a month
• I'll likely need a psychiatrist
• I get UTIs relatively frequently; historically, this has meant telehealth visits, running by the pharmacy for some antibiotics, sometimes dropping into a lab to do a urine test.
• My income this next year will likely be under $25k
• I'm moving to Brooklyn from out of state in August

I'm confident I qualify for NY state marketplace/ACA health insurance plans.

1. I'd love to know - if you have ACA/NY marketplace health plans, Your favorite clinics/hospital systems in Brooklyn that provide competent and timely care?
2. Favorite, reasonably priced acupuncturist? Willing to travel
3. Your favorite therapist?

Thanks so much in advance!

I saw something really disturbing happening on my TikTok live of a girl in Coney Island, who was so drunk that she had no consent or awareness of what she and others were doing around her. Eventually, she ran towards the water with a random guy who was touching her while other men were recording her. From the live you can see when the two of them first interact with each other that's how I knew she didn't know him. This was on the boardwalk and there was no visual NYPD around so I called 911 and no one answered the phone. No operators just a robot saying to hold on while others are being helped. I was on hold for a long time yet no one ever answered the call. Eventually the girl left with the guy but I hope she's safe.

I'm helping a friend plan his 55th birthday - he wants a kind of a dive bar vibe in Brooklyn that also has food and outdoor space. Any recommendations?

I passed when it had just started about 7:30pm. Called 911 but system was down today. Dark smoke then I ran when I saw blue flame and the fire department had arrived (I think someone else called them).

It was a few hundred feet from the gas station on the corner so I let the attendant know. Just curious if anyone else saw this / what happened? Was it a gas fire?

Recently, I was walking along Flatbush when I hear a drawn out caw and looked to see a peacock sitting on top of what I'm assuming is the gate to get into the Prospect Park Zoo. It was above the height of the surrounding fence, and it didn't look like there was any sort of netting, so I'm assuming the peacock could have freely gone anywhere.

When I looked up whether the zoo even has peacocks, I found a news article from 2020 about an incident when the peacock broke out and was wandering the streets. How has this happened on multiple occasions, and is the peacock not a flight risk?

Does anyone live here or close by ? And know of any reasonable parking options around the area ?

Hello Brooklyn!
I live in Gowanus near 4th and 13th. Does anyone know if there are Spanish classes available nearby? Specifically Latin oriented.

Hey yall!! I'm doing a show in Williamsburg called:

"The lungs still remember what the mouth never said"

This Saturday May 23, and I really wanted to share it with you all. Hope to give everyone a space to sit with their thoughts, let them consume you, until they finally quite down.

About the show:

https://ja.ra.co/events/2438865

In Tokyo, the city Zahra & Rocca started in, shrines exist in the middle of the biggest city in the world. You make the decision to pass through the gate and walk further and further in. You climb the stairs and press your hands together. You try to pray — but as you stand with your head hanging in a bow, the words don’t come to you. Fragments, images, everything you can’t seem to verbalize. You pray in pictures as your thoughts go haywire until something finally condenses. And then you walk back out.

​Using field recordings they have personally gathered in New York, Tehran, and Tokyo, Zahra & Rocca build sound from memory.

​Indeed, nostalgia is not a strategy. But you must understand the threads that have been pulled within you, so they cannot be pulled against you.

For some idea of the sound: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYdnovoKBbY/?igsh=ejBsODY5a2x3cXA3

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYXrsb7KC5s/?igsh=MW4waTZrMWkxcmNw

Hope to see you there if you can make it!!

Bought two larger water bottles for $13 (already a scam in itself), but got an email two days later from my bank asking if i intended to tip 74% ($10 extra). Obviously, I did not and contacted my bank who sorted it out, but just sucks. Wanted to possibly warn anyone who might be looking into the area.

•this was the larger food truck and not the stand that was there. Occurred 5/18.

Anyone have experience with this? I brought my car in to get serviced and looks like fried rat fur all over the place. The servicer won’t touch it. I’m sure this is common. Where can I bring it?

My original girl moved to Long Island and all I can find now are these over priced IG spots. I def wanna stay under $100. Im in the sheepshead area but id go anywhere the Q or B train stops. Any recommendations are appreciated :)

Apologies if this is the wrong place to be asking about the water in the beach because basically what I was looking for was to see if the tides there are calm enough to swim in.

Like what I mean is that there was an incident just recently in Riis Beach where someone drowned in the water as I was looking for a place in Brooklyn for a good swim, but I wanted to know more about Manhattan Beach regarding the water tides.

I'm not sure if this is a stupid question but I have young kids and would love to have access to a club with a pool we could bring them to regularly over the summer. If so, where do you go and what do you pay?

I know there are public options but the lines in my area are long which is hard with young kids. The pools are also freezing.

Hello, just as the title says looking for fellow friends based in Brooklyn (mostly crown heights, bed stuy, Bushwick). Interests are cooking, art, gaming, foodie culture, pop culture. Also open to any groups or clubs to join esp where creation is concerned!

My buddy doesn’t have Reddit. Posting since the cops at the station didn’t do anything.

He was waiting for the train yesterday afternoon around 1pm and a Hispanic woman in her late 20s/30s punched him in the back of the head with an object in her hand. When he turned around he pushed her away and she was screaming nonsense in Spanish and scratched his arm up pretty bad with her fingernails. He fled the situation since she was obviously mentally unstable.

He stopped by the police booth and the response was annoyance by their candy crush being interrupted. They ridiculed because he said it was a woman that hit him. “You let a woman hit you?” was the quote.

He’s fine but just wants to put the word out there because whoever she goes after next might just end up on the tracks.

Just wondering how the seat view is. I saw a few pics online but mostly of basketball games. I got cheap tickets for a concert and I’m just happy to be going but also wondering realistically how much I’ll be able to see.