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🌱 Brooklyn Composer Turns 90 + Woman Drives Through Restaurant Window

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Brooklyn born, world-renown composer Stanley Walden is preparing to celebrate his 90th birthday and the man is still writing scores. As a teenager, Walden was inspired by the Walt Disney film "Fantasia," after a childhood that was relatively dry of any sort of musical exposure. Since the 1950s he has gone on to support legendary artists in music, theatre, and dance, performed military service with performances as solo clarinet with the 7th Army Symphony Orchestra in Europe, had a stint with the New York Philharmonic, served as a faculty member at the Juilliard School, founded the musical/show department at the Berlin University of the Arts, and received a Grammy award nomination for the score of Broadway musical "Oh! Calcutta!" Another inspiring story from one of Brooklyn's many creatives. (Desert Sun)

What else is going on?

  • NYC announces Humanity for Haiti Coalition
  • The mayor ponders cruise ships
  • A motorist drove into a restaurant
  • Ultra-Orthodox schools are under the microscope

First, today's weather:

☀️ Mostly sunny and more humid. High: 85 Low: 70.

Here are the top stories in Brooklyn today:

1. Folks gathered in the Little Haiti area of Brooklyn to address the economic and humanitarian crisis plaguing Haiti. The newly formed Humanity for Haiti Coalition follows a meeting between New York government officials and officials in the Dominican Republic to discuss a range of issues related to trade assistance. As the representative of one of the largest concentrations of Haitians outside of Haiti in Flatbush, Brooklyn, State Senator Kevin Parker broached the issues of increasing numbers of Haitian refugees, and the need for deeper communication between governments to address the rapidly growing humanitarian crisis happening right now in Haiti.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

2. The city has seen over 11,000 asylum seekers arrive in the last couple of months—these numbers are unprecedented. Buses used to arrive a few days out of the week, but now, at least 8 are dropping off individuals and families every day at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The city is desperately struggling to house these migrants, and Mayor Eric Adams is exploring the legality of setting up temporary housing on cruise ships.

CBS News

3. An elderly woman drove her car straight through a restaurant window in Brighton Beach, causing severe injury to a mid-day customer enjoying their lunch. Apparently unbothered—leaning agains the crashed car and smoking a cigarette—the driver mentioned that the brakes of her Honda CRV failed and she lost control of the vehicle. The elderly man who was hit and injured by during the incident is currently in critical condition at Lutheran Hospital. Our thoughts are with him and his family.

MetroLaw

4. After every single student failed a round of standardized testing in 2019 at the Central United Talmudical Academy, ultra-Orthodox schools in New York are under the microscope. This week, New York's Board of Regents approved, for the first time, rules aimed at addressing long-standing allegations that scores of ultra-Orthodox private schools, called yeshivot, are defying state law by failing to provide an education in English, math and other basic subjects, purposefully denying some 50,000 students a basic secular education. The regulations aim to re-establish mandates that require private schools to offer "substantially equivalent" education to that received in public schools.

The Jerusalem Post

Today in Brooklyn:

  • 📸 Free family mini photo sessions, Dumbo Waterfront, Today @ 9 a.m. | Details
  • Bushwick Brunch, Street Art, & Open Studios, OTIS, Today @ 12 p.m. | Details
  • All-day screenings & $8 dollar tickets, Coney Island Film Festival, Today @ 1 p.m. | Details
  • Cirkus Luna by Dzieci Theatre, Old Stone House of Brooklyn, Today @ 3 p.m. | Details

🐝 Brooklyn Buzz

  • Myths & Magic at the Brooklyn Museum: "THE QUEST: A new museum artifact turned out to be a powerful magical device that has gone haywire. We need heroes to help us fix it before it's too late!" (Brooklyn Children's Museum via Facebook)
  • Puppet with a packed schedule: "Late in the evening, Amal is drawn to a carousel lit up in the middle of @bbpnyc. She finds two special sisters and is invited to play. Led by @stannswarehouse and created by @swoon w/ @sxipshirey , join us on 9/19 for a magical theatrical event." (Brooklyn Museum via Twitter)
  • Brooklyn made a splash at NYFW '22, read more at the link about the borough's own impressive emerging designers who stepped it up this week. (BK Magazine)

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About me: I'm a recent grad based in Brooklyn, NY. I love to write, run, read, and find new restaurants and venues around the city.

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