Wednesday 23 May 2012
If Bedford-Stuyvesant proves to be the bellwether district in deciding the 10th Congressional District race, then City Councilman Charles Barron likes his chances. Barron, along with incumbent Rep. Ed Towns and Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries are all vying for the seat in the district that covers a wide swath of Brooklyn. Pundits believe that if...
If you’re not apprehensive about the candidates running for the Republican nomination, then you haven’t been paying attention. All talk about being in a post-racial society has to be seen now as hopelessly naïve and dangerous to health and liberty. Former Congressman Rick Santorum got the ball rolling when he said he didn’t want...
At a time when the Bloomberg Administration is closing after-school programs to save $20 million in a $68 billion budget, the tens of millions of dollars that Comptroller John Liu has been finding in city agency accounts is very meaningful. The comptroller has also created a transparency to the city’s finances that is unprecedented....
Maria Antonellis found herself transferred to a “punishment shelter” after a series of mishaps at the BRC Women’s Shelter at 85 Lexington Ave. Each week she was required to see her case manager to sign an Independent Living Plan (ILP). Because her case worker did not keep regularly scheduled appointments, Maria was issued an...
Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday called for the end of the controversial Bloomberg administration policy of fingerprinting all food stamp applicants. New York City and the state of Arizona are the only municipalities in the country that follow this procedure. “There is never an excuse for letting any child in New York go to...
It was 10 am Tuesday, and the bitter cold on the first official business day of the new year didn’t diminish the long line standing outside the housing court building at 141 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn. “They want their rent money, but they don’t want to fix or repair anything,” said Shakia Sease,...
January Medgar Evers College restrained from evicting Center for NuLeadership The new administration of Medgar Evers College got into a heated debate with several elected officials and community leaders after it decided to evict the Center for NuLeadership. The Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions is a public policy, research and advocacy academic center...
Activism at the New Providence Women’s Shelter on 225 East 45th Street is a question of survival. That after homeless residents circulated two petitions last month in yet another grassroots effort to clean the facility up. The petitions came less than two months after police shot and killed Yvonne McNeill, 57, outside New Providence...
The city last week denied that the growing lines of people waiting in the cold to get social services help had anything to do with a recent Fire Department inspection of the building at 500 DeKalb Avenue. The denial follows several complaints of the long lines of people standing outside the building – some...
City Councilman Al Vann this week slammed the Department of Education’s decision to shutter one Bedford-Stuyvesant school next year and phase out another over three years. The Academy of Business and Community Development (ABCD), 141 Macon Street and Marcy Avenue will shut its door in June if the mayor’s Panel for Educational Policy (PEP)...
