🌱 Why a voucher change is blocking this Brownsville family’s return home

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• Why a voucher change is blocking this Brownsville family's return home

Also on today's calendar: Ego Free Jam - Acoustic and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Mostly cloudy and humid, with a high of 73 and low of 67 degrees.
• Friday: Very warm with some sun, temps: high: 81, low: 62.
• Saturday: Some sun; nice, less humid, with a high of 72 and low of 59 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Mother says voucher change is keeping her family apart following Brownsville fire (news12.com) — A Brownsville mother is struggling to reunite her family after a May fire displaced them from their Chester Street apartment and a sudden NYCHA voucher change cut her approval from three bedrooms to two. She says the third bedroom is essential for her bedbound son's medical equipment and is fighting to restore it so she can bring him and her father home.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Brownsville

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Saturday October 3
• Ego Free Jam - Acoustic →
  Delight Factory, 303 Saratoga Ave
  7:30 pm
Wednesday October 7
• Improve Your Posture with an HSS Online Program →
  11:00 am
• Staying Strong Through Midlife and Beyond: HSS Free Webinar! →
  6:30 pm
Monday October 12
• Move with Confidence: The Nutrition Connection (In Person Class) →
  Hospital for Special Surgery Main Hospital, 535 E 70th St, New York
  10:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday October 1
• Thursdays 6am | Central Park "6 @ 6" →
  West 72nd Street Entrance to Central Park, New York
  6:00 am
• Mathews-Palmer Park →
  Mathews–Palmer Park, 445 W 45th St, New York
  7:00 am
• Brooklyn: 2K/3K Workshop Series Session 2/3 →
  SCO Family of Services-Morris Koppelman Early Childhood Center, 774 Saratoga Avenue, Brooklyn
  8:30 am
• NYPCMA Education Day →
  Hard Rock Cafe, 1501 Broadway, New York
  9:45 am
• Community Sukkah Viewing →
  1 East 65th Street, New York
  10:00 am
• Financial Community Fair →
  Park Place & West Broadway, New York
  10:00 am
• Visit Newport Beach Vacation Club →
  213 Bowery, New York
  12:00 pm
• NT Live: The Misanthrope →
  Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th St., New York
  1:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Brooklyn

• Dinner and a show: Arts festival brings Floyd Bennett Field's historic hangars to life • Brooklyn Paper (brooklynpaper.com)
• Brooklyn Chamber lands $1M Google grant to expand AI training for small businesses statewide • Brooklyn Paper (brooklynpaper.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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