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At an awards ceremony inside Brooklyn Borough Hall, Borough President
Adams checked out a winning entry in a wellness poster contest submitted by
Matteo Feola, a fourth grader at PS 32 Samuel Mills Sprole in Carroll Gardens.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams marched in the second annual Sunset Park Puerto
Rican Day Parade to honor the many contributions of the nearly 190,000
individuals of Puerto Rican heritage in Brooklyn, with tens of thousands
of Brooklynites lining Fifth Avenue to enjoy vintage automobiles, cultural
performances, and plenty of flags.
Around BrooklynWith Borough President Adams
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As a memorial for the victims of the nightclub massacre in Orlando, in which
49 people were killed and another 53 people were wounded, many of them
members of the LGBTQ+ community, Borough President Adams wrapped
Brooklyn Borough Hall in a rainbow ribbon inscribed by thousands of
Brooklynites with messages of hope and solidarity.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams cut the ribbon on a new small business mentoring
center at Brooklyn Borough Hall, managed by non-profit association SCORE
NYC.
Photo Credit: Patrick Rheaume/Brooklyn BP’s Office
In remembrance of the Easter terror attack in Lahore, Pakistan, Borough
President Adams spoke at an interfaith candlelight vigil that he organized with
the local Pakistani community outside the Makki Masjid Muslim Community
Center in Flatbush.
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Borough President Adams unveiled “Faces of DAPA + DACA+,” an exhibition
with Make the Road New York at Brooklyn Borough Hall featuring portraits of
immigrants impacted by Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful
Permanent Residents (DAPA) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) Expansion.
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