A decade after local residents founded the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, the bank for the poor last week was declared bankrupt and taken over by a Long Island-based financial institution.
As the city’s Department of Homeless Services struggles to house the record number of homeless families it sees each day, several of the agency’s managers and social workers plan to accept a generous retirement package that the city recently offered, leaving the remaining staff and advocates for the homeless wondering how the work will get done.
The number of kids testing positive for lead poisoning dropped dramatically over the last five years, according to a city report, but the majority of toddlers are not even getting tested.
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