The Park Deserves Better Than This
Over the past 3-weeks approximately 30 plants have been stolen from Herbert Von King Park on Lafayette Avenue between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues reported Walter Markham, head gardener for the park. The Park, where the Bedford Stuyvesant Little League takes the field every summer night, and where on holidays, if you haven’t secured your barbecue spot by 6am, you’re looking for whatever is left. “They’ve been taking them at night and one of the evergreen bushes, a newly-planted Taxus, weighed about 50 lbs. including the root ball which had been dug up,” suggesting that this was not the work of ...
Who Killed Chanel Petro-Nixon?
[caption id="attachment_275" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Lucita Petro-Nixon and Garvin Nixon, center, parents of slain teenager Chanel Petro-Nixon, march up Kingston Avenue to commemorate Chanel's death and ask for help in solving the 3-year-old crime. Councilman Charles Barron, left and activist Minister Taharka Robinson, right, lead the march. Photo: Mark Stewart"][/caption] “These raindrops represent the tears of the family and the community” said Councilwoman Letitia James at the start of the march commemorating the third year of the unsolved brutal murder of Chanel Petro-Nixon, a 16-year-old “A” student at Boys & Girls High School. Ms. Petro-Nixon’s body was found in a ...
Governor Paterson Comes to Brooklyn to Support Vann
(Photo Caption) Power Display: Governor David Paterson with Councilman Al Vann as Vann opens wha he reports will be his last campaign. The Governor was joined in his endorsement by State Senate Leader Malcolm Smith, Borough President Marty Markowitz, Stae Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Annette Robinson, Councilwoman Letitia James and a host of others. Councilman Al Vann held what is said to be his last major campaign kickoff rally at the Lab community and entertainment complex on Harriet Tubman Boulevard/Tompkins Avenue in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant and it highlighted the strengths of his campaign. The Councilman said he had been taught not ...
Challengers For the 36th CD Take Aim at Al Vann’s Seat
There is an entire stable in the horse race this year to replace two-term New York City Councilman Al Vann in the 36th District, which comprises a majority of Bedford-Stuyvesant and northern Crown Heights. “I don’t remember people talking this much about a local election in quite some time,” says Frantz Cayo, president of the Stuyvesant Heights Parents Association, which is sponsoring the first candidates’ debate on Saturday, June 6 at Brownstone Books. “The field of candidates is fearless. They truly believe that they have the opportunity to unseat Vann.” Considered a neighborhood institution by many, Vann has represented central Brooklyn, first ...
State Senator Perkins Hosts First Hearing on Atlantic Yards
Photo caption: State Senators Bill Perkins, Velmanette Montgomery and Karl Kruger. The first State Senate hearing since the 2005 announcement of the Atlantic Yards project was a spectacle to behold. State Senator Bill Perkins hosted the hearing, entitled “Atlantic Yards: Where are We Now, How Did We Get Here, and Where is this Project Going?” State Senators Velmanette Montgomery and Carl Kruger and Assembly member Hakeem Jeffries were on hand to ask questions. Sen. Perkins is the newly-appointed chair of the State Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, which has a mandate to oversee state entities that engage in state-supported economic and ...
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