Demetrice and Dorothy Mills are the epitome of all that’s right about Bedford-Stuyvesant --- and the world, for that matter.
And it is fitting that Brooklyn’s observance of April Earth Month & Volunteer Month and the Annual meeting of the Brooklyn Queens Land Trust (BQLT)...
By Bernice Elizabeth Green
Elaine Greene is tired of “real estate thieves stealing properties” and she wants the community to join her “fight back” campaign.
At the Monday, April 4 Community Board 3 public meeting, Ms. Greene invited everyone present to sign petitions on behalf of...
William “Bill” Clinton
Why can’t there be more affordable housing for the older people, and why can’t that housing be in Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Boerum Hill or Brooklyn Heights? And they call “affordable” aren’t the apartments seniors who are on a fixed income can...
By Fern E. Gillespie
On Wednesday, April 7, my statue, Black Boy (“Head of Boy”) by famed Harlem Renaissance artist Richmond Barthe (1901-1989), will be part of the African American Fine Art auction at Swann Galleries in Manhattan. This will be the end of my...
By Bernice Elizabeth Green
The 590 Madison Street building has been a music-learning and study center for more than 85 years, serving thousands of students.
It was founded in 1930 by Philadelphia-born, Barbados-raised L. Elsie Cumberbatch Graham to house one of Brooklyn’s first official music instruction...
Last week, Olanike Alabi, State Committeewoman/District Leader of AD 57, announced her sponsorship -- in partnership with community advocates, labor organizations and law enforcement -- of a series of major crime prevention briefings to take place March 8, 14, 17, 23 and 31 in Brooklyn North;...
Bernice Elizabeth Green
When a house on Cambridge Place in the Clinton Hill Historic District recently went up for nearly $4 million, a record for the block, I couldn’t pass up
the chance to see it.
It opened the door to an opportunity to answer a decades-old...
City deed rooms – and policies -- may match the streets as the sites of some of the nation’s most heinous “bait and switch” crimes of theft
African-American and Latino former and current property owners living in some of the “coolest” areas of Brooklyn, New...
Bernice Elizabeth Green
Stories of the journeys of Boys & Girls H.S. in educating, inspiring and empowering young people are often told as a “many-mountains-to-climb” rite of struggle with failure as the operative word.
A recent visit to Boys & Girls H.S. offered a glimpse of...
When Mrs. Eloise Mitchell, a member of Evening Star Baptist Church, saw that her "press and curl" clientele was dipping, she decided to do the business thing and follow the advice of a sister church member: take out an ad in the community paper.
So now Our...
The expression “All good things must come to an end” never had as much poignancy as when Eddie Hibbert told us on Friday that he was moving.
We accepted the news with joy; we know wherever Eddie parks his van, milestones are sure to be...
Our Time Press witnessed a few hours in the lives of these incredibly bright, self-directed and motivated youngsters recently. We were impressed with how they interacted with nature, using elements in the environment as tools for having fun.
The children played around a maple whose fallen...
By Bernice Elizabeth Green
From September 21-28, New York will be home to folks from around the world in business, government and society talking about the earth, global warming and climate change at numerous venues, from the United Nations to churches and schools.
And, yes, this...
A hotel "room" at $25 per night sounds like a great deal, but not if you're sharing space with about 30 people. And that's exactly what the Buildings Department and New York City law officials determined after a follow-up to a complaint about a rogue hostelry at...
By Bernice Elizabeth Green
“When Brooklyn ‘greens’ it, it means it!” said Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams at the announcement of the winners of the 2015 Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest yesterday at a press conference on the champion residential block, Bainbridge Street between Malcolm X...
This building located on 1025 Atlantic Avenue, bookends Classon and Atlantic Avenues at the northeastern-most intersection.
Not too many years ago, it was a forgotten low-rise hulk. There was a tall marquee of Sherita the cat beckoning landlords to purchase fuel because "the price is right!"
Now as...
By Bernice Elizabeth Green
Citi Bike’s new map is showing expansion of its wheel print by installing 80 bike-sharing stations in areas you thought you’d never see them – at least for now. That includes thousands of bikes and hundreds of docks into North Bed-Stuy,...
Part II of Three Parts
By Bernice Elizabeth Green
Several people walked away from security jobs this week at 406 Tompkins Avenue, moved by stories or memories of families, friends or neighbors turned out into the streets: displaced. Not a pretty picture, and apparently they didn’t...
By Bernice Elizabeth Green
In Nelson Mandela's first public appearance in the United States in June 1990, he stopped in Bedford-Stuyvesant at Boys & Girls H.S. to address an audience of young people and national and community leaders.
In Graca Machel's first public appearance in the...
The great Dr. Charles “Baba Chuck” Davis, foremost dance teacher, choreographer and scholar, has transformed Brooklyn into a performance village nearly every spring for almost 40 years through his beloved DanceAfrica. He founded, developed and grew the Festival into the nation’s largest celebrating the...
