Wednesday 22 May 2013
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The bicycle shops of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Fort Greene/Clinton Hill this week gave unanimous thumbs up to the city’s rent-a-bike program that is officially expected to roll out early next month. The public-private partnership plan dubbed Citi Bike because Citibank is its major underwriter will ultimately see 600 docking stations and 10,000 bikes where residents...
A union-led lawsuit seeking to halt the massive City Point project in Downtown Brooklyn is threatening divisions between local lawmakers siding with the unions and black-owned contractors saying a stoppage will cost local jobs and slow cash flow in the community to a trickle. The project, on the former Albee Square Mall site on...
CB 3 official says more rent-a-bike docks expected throughout the neighborhood By Stephen Witt Eight bike docks, as part of the city’s new rent-a-bike program, have been installed mainly on the western portion of Bedford-Stuyvesant with several more expected in the central and eastern part of the community as the program moves forward. The...
Thanks in part to an aggressive outreach program, African-American-owned construction contractors and individual workers are finding increasing success in finding work on the City Point project now under construction at the former Albee Mall site on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The program is run by Crescent Consulting, a firm specializing in construction compliance...
Ede Fox appears extremely personable and comfortable sitting in a Vanderbilt Avenue restaurant as she discusses her campaign to succeed Letitia James for the 35 th District City Council seat covering Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights and parts of Downtown Brooklyn and Crown Heights. A self-described “child of the Civil Rights Movement”, Fox was...
For Ed Brown, whose Team Brown Consulting firm has landed several people from NYCHA’s Ingersoll Houses in construction jobs, the City Point project is a textbook example of what the massive 2004 Downtown Brooklyn rezoning plan was supposed to do for people of color in the surrounding community. “When I got the chance to...
The Restoration Plaza Corporation remains committed to its mission of serving the entire Bedford-Stuyvesant community from its large African-American professional and middle-class base to those still mired in poverty. So said Restoration President and CEO Colvin Grannum, who was born and raised in Central Brooklyn and remains an esteemed attorney, activist and resident of...
By Stephen Witt A bedrock Bed-Stuy grassroots community organization vowed this week to continue fighting the recent eviction from their Restoration Plaza office space amid rumors that the complex will be turned into a high-end hotel. Meanwhile, the ongoing dispute between the two entities – both created as vital community resources- has civic leader...
In an often emotional and defiant meeting, several hundred past alumni, students, teachers, administrators, parents and activists packed the Boys & Girls High School auditorium on Tuesday vowing that the city will never shut the school. The meeting came after the city’s Department of Education (DOE) recently gave the school a failing grade for...
Tamecca Tillard, the recently-named managing director of the Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford-Stuyvesant (CIBS), sat behind her desk in the community-based organization’s small two-person office in Restoration Plaza and thought for a few seconds of what it means to improve Bed-Stuy – a complex community with deep middleclass African-American roots, residents on fixed...
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