Wednesday 23 May 2012
By B. Sadlonova A group of Medgar Evers College faculty and staff attempting to oust college President William L. Pollard and Provost Howard C. Johnson succeeded in getting a “No confidence” vote against the administration before the CUNY Board of Trustees. But a Medgar Evers College spokesperson Christopher Hundley noted the vote was taken...
By Ron Howell Last year at a Jefferson Avenue (between Tompkins and Throop Avenues) block party, I heartily shouted out my favorite phrase: “Bed-Stuy, do or die!” Some do not like that term, which has been buried in the archives of Central Brooklyn’s past. In fact, in some sense, it could be said that...
By Diane Dixon and Stephen Witt Dozens of local residents held a candlelight vigil in front of Interfaith Medical Center last week hoping for the best, but fearing the worst regarding the fate of the community hospital. The 287-bed Interfaith, located at 1545 Atlantic Avenue, in one form or another has for many years...
Photo by Velvet McNeil By Wesley Lowery Special to NABJ An attorney for the family of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin on Saturday shed light on his legal team’s strategy, the status of state and federal investigations and the outpouring of support for the case. In a wide-ranging interview with board members of the...
Congressman Edolphus Towns (D-NY), 10th CD, former chair and now ranking member, of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on mortgage servicing practices and the foreclosure crisis, obviously dismayed over the rising number of foreclosures in Brooklyn – 16,000 in the past year – convened a field Congressional hearing at Brooklyn Borough Hall,...
Does anybody read the NYS Constitution anymore? Last week in the dead of night, the NYS Legislature addressed a number of bills on Assembly and Senate redistricting, a DNA database, casino gambling, performance evaluations for educators, the establishment of the independent redistricting commission, and pension reform. All but one was passed with a simple...
Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries won a reprieve in his primary challenge to unseat incumbent Congressman Ed Towns after a federal magistrate reversed her proposal to exclude Fort Greene and Clinton Hill from the federally created voting rights district. These northern neighborhoods are Jeffries’ constituent base in the Assembly. The newly created 8th Congressional now starts...
The NYS Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) has issued its proposed NYS Assembly and Senate maps. The maps, widely viewed as contorted, have joined criticism from all across the state. The shapes of some districts, the elimination of others, a 63rd Senate district, and the placement of sitting legislators in...
A Brownville public housing development, which displaced over 1,000 low-income residents nine years ago for alleged renovations, is now being slated for redevelopment as a mixed-income project with retail on the ground floor. The Prospect Plaza Housing Development at 1773 Prospect Plaza was shuttered in 2003 by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)...
The Williamsburg Charter High School, a new “State-of-the-Art” high school located on Varet Street in Brooklyn, has been put on probation and may have its charter removed at the end of this school year, forcing hundreds of children to have their education interrupted midway through their high school years. The New York City Department...
