Wednesday 23 May 2012
Raphael Espinal’s campaign for the open 54th AD seat has caused a firestorm of controversy with campaign literature featuring a ‘doctored’ photo of a May 1 protest rally against the proposed 202 bed men’s shelter. Original pictures of the rally featured community residents and children holding signs with slogans such as ’14 Shelters and...
It may not be politically correct, but one of the best things to happen to Brooklyn in the past ten years is the Atlantic Yards project. I mention this because last week I was at the Atlantic Terminal Mall, where from a lunch counter stool on the second floor, one looks out of a...
(Brooklyn, NY) Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy will be defined by his victories and his failures. One of his major failures can best be illustrated by his lack of investment and focus on issues affecting urban youth. Black and Latino young men represent the most disaffected and disconnected constituency in the City. Despite repeated warnings...
New York City’s July 1 budget deadline looms. Mayor Bloomberg has proposed cutting 4,000 teachers, day care closures, and the elimination of 22 fire houses. Week after week, municipal workers have been staging large protests, joined by hundreds of city residents who will be impacted by the cuts. Last week, DC 37 became one...
Bedford-Stuyvesant residents, which have been asking and pleading for a sanitation garage for 25 years, will have to wait at least another year. That, after the city pulled the money for the project out of the fiscal year 2011-12 budget and put it towards two other projects that distribute garbage more equally around...
For more than a week, dozens of health care workers at Brookdale Hospital have been lining the corridor just inside the hospital’s main entrance, professionally dressed and ready to work. The hospital’s health care workers, including dietary, housekeeping, clerical workers, radiology and other medical technicians, pharmacists, some midwives, some physician assistants and every category...
The kids may have been in the kitchen, but the politicians were the ones doing the cooking. Their presence, though, was all for a good cause in attending the Junior League of Brooklyn (JLB) Kids in the Kitchen Fair last week in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The annual event, this year held at The Academy of Business...
New York State Homes & Community Renewal Commissioner Darryl Towns attended the recent 83rd Precinct Community Council meeting as part of Cuomo’s “People First Tour” throughout the state to explain the governor’s plan for making Albany more responsive. “What the governor is doing is using his Cabinet to go throughout the state and share...
…Teachers and Lawmakers from around the State Calling for Education Over Incarceration – (Harrisburg, PA) – On Tuesday, April 26th, the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference led the “Children’s March to Save Public Education”, a rally of students, teachers and legislators protesting Governor Tom Corbett’s proposed 2011-2012 budget. The budget would slash education funding by...
Pro-Lifers Cause Furor With Racist Billboard in SoHo It is fitting that as Black History and Women’s History Month meet, the same consciousness that excluded both groups from the Constitution and behaved in ways that made those two months necessary, is still at work and has placed a billboard on...
