Wednesday 23 May 2012
Earlier this week Council Member Al Vann honored both the boys basketball team and boys track team of Boys & Girls High School during the City Council’s Stated Meeting.
When the news leaked last Sunday that Representative Edolphus Towns was retiring, everyone was caught by surprise. “After months of long family discussions, I have decided not to seek reelection for my seat in the United State House of Representatives,” Rep. Towns said Monday. Towns served in the House for 30 years representing parts...
At press time, in a senate race seemingly to nowhere, Republican candidate David Storobin clung to an unofficial 120 vote over Democratic City Councilman Lew Fidler in the special election to replace former state senator and convicted felon Carl Kruger in the 27th State Senate District. According to the New York City Board of...
East New York, Brownsville lead city in stop-and-frisks Two police precincts covering Easy New York and Brownsville led the city in stop-and-frisks, according to a recent New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) preliminary report leaked to the press. The 75th precinct in East New York topped the list, counting the most people stopped –...
Paging Annette Robinson Kings County Democratic boss Vito Lopez this week dispelled rumors floating around for several weeks that Assemblywoman Annette Robinson is retiring at the end of this term. “I saw her and asked her about it, and she said, ‘Vito, I’m not leaving and I’m running,” said Lopez, the longtime Assemblyman representing...
The Board of Directors of the Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant, Inc. (MTEC) — recognized as a pioneer for more than 40 years in creating green programs for residents of Brooklyn and beyond, has namedMs. Beverly Johnson, a former dean at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, as Magnolia Tree’s new Executive Director. “The...
A recent accident at the historic Slave Theater on Fulton Street, in which nobody was seriously hurt, has turned into a blessing for its owner, who plans on selling it. Rev. Samuel Boykin, the court-appointed administrator for the late Judge John L. Phillips who owned the theater, said the city’s Department of Buildings posted...
We often hear about the American Dream of homeownership being lost to many of us; or that it’s a thing of the past. There is a segment of Brooklyn, however, that would seriously beg to differ with those negative statements, because they’ve been keeping the dream and pride of homeownership alive for over 30...
On the streets, in churches and in homes, vigils were held waiting on the slow-motion lynching that was the killing of Troy Anthony Davis by the state of Georgia. After the execution hour had passed we learned of a last appeal to the Supreme Court. Three hours later we were told that the Justices...
-For Brooklyn’s 54th State Assembly District in Special Election Tuesday, September 13 It is easy to see why Jesus Gonzalez, 26, has so many endorsements in his campaign for the Brooklyn’s NYS 54th Assembly District special election. As a son of Bushwick and the candidate of the Working Families Party, his history in the...
