By Stephen Witt After 34 years, the wait in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Community Board 3 to get its own sanitation garage is finally over. That, after Department of Sanitation sources confirmed to KCP that the city-owned property at 56 Nostrand Avenue between Park and Flushing Avenues that have...

A new city pilot program doing away with parking on a residential street in Clinton Hill has residents already getting tow boots put on their cars and getting $185 tickets. Sharon Holliday, who lives in a brownstone on Greene Avenue between Cambridge Place and Grand...

]In a crowded Public Advocate race filled with city and state elected officials, it is interesting to note that Dawn Smalls, who has no elected political experience, was one of the first to turn in her petition filings to the Board of Elections last week. But...

Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and City Council Member Robert Cornegy, Jr. (D-Bedford-Stuyvesant, Northern Crown Heights), the chair of the council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings, today called for a full-scale forensic audit and investigation on the federal, state, and city levels into the issue of deed...

By Kings County Politics The late U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-Brooklyn), 1924-2005, the political trailblazer who was both the first Black congresswoman and the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, will have a monument to her memory erected at the Parkside entrance to Prospect Park....

By Kelly Mena, Kings County Politics City Councilman Kalman Yeger (D-Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Midwood and Kensington) could introduce a bill as early as tomorrow that could eliminate the Office of Public Advocate, a position that was recently left open with the historical election of current Public Advocate Letitia...

By Stephen Witt September 28, 2018 Editor’s Note: The following is the fifth of a KCP investigative series by reporters Kelly Mena and Stephen Witt on how New York City is taking paid-off properties from longtime small property owners, including Black and Brown seniors, and giving them...

Ms. Marlene Saunders, a long time resident and homeowner of 1217 Dean Street. The city today abruptly reversed a decision to take a senior citizen’s brownstone house on a gentrified Crown Heights block after pressure from City Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr. (D-Bedford-Stuyvesant, Northern Crown Heights) and...

By Kings County Politics News Service In the wake of yet more police killings of black men, this time in Louisiana and Minnesota, some have been trying to pin blame on the Jewish State of Israel as the cause of this deathly police misconduct.   This included...

By Kings County News Service   For the second year in a row, the city’s Parks Department is saying they will begin renovations on the shuttered Von King Park Community Center, 670 Lafayette Avenue, this fall, and local activists are biting their lips over it.   The center,...

As the petitioning process to get on the ballot for all state elected offices in the Sept. 13 Democratic Party primary started this week, voters throughout Central Brooklyn will get more choices than usual on vetting candidates and choices to represent them in Albany. Among...

By Stephen Witt Longtime lawmaker Assemblywoman Annette Robinson (Bedford-Stuyvesant) on Saturday announced she is retiring from her seat and quickly endorsed and pledged her support for Community Board 3 Chair Tremaine Wright as her successor. The announcement came over the weekend at the Vanguard Independent Democratic Association Breakfast. VIDA also...

Community Board 3 gives thumbs down to city proposal to reduce speed from 30 to 20 MPH Citing concerns of increased police ticketing and traffic snares along Bed-Stuy’s major auto thoroughfares, Community Board 3 voted 27-4 on Monday to not recommend the city’s proposal to...

While spending plan helps some in Central Brooklyn, unemployment & charter schools not addressed As this paper went to press, Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a $73.7 billion fiscal year 2014-15 city budget that includes doing away with the city charging public housing residents to...

By Alton H. Maddox, Jr.   This past Sunday, Philip Seymour Hoffman, an Oscar-winning, white actor was found dead in his Greenwich Village apartment of an alleged, heroin overdose on this past Sunday.  In other words, "Hoffman killed himself".  On the other hand, Avonte Oquendo, an...

    Say rollout for new national education standards is deeply flawed     By Stephen Witt The state legislature this week called for a two-year moratorium for using Common Core-aligned test scores to evaluate educators and affect student placement decisions. In a rare bipartisan vote, both Democrats in the assembly...

DOT claims reduction in speed limit and speed bumps will thwart crashes   By Stephen Witt The city’s proposal to install a Neighborhood Slow Zone that straddles Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant has hit a speed bump. Under the Department of Transportation (DOT) plan, the speed limit in a large...

Says Bloomberg political allocations left office with the former billionaire mayor By Stephen Witt The Weeksville Heritage Center, which documents and preserves the history of the free, self-sufficient 19th century African-American community of Weeksville, is looking to get a little help from City Hall - namely...

Longtime residents fight to keep the African-American legacy alive in Central Brooklyn By Stephen Witt African-American residents, property owners and activists of Bedford-Stuyvesant are pushing back against the long-held collective society belief that little can be done to stop white gentrification. This despite the fact that battle...

Both de Blasio and Cuomo express support for longtime Central Brooklyn hospital By Stephen Witt Interfaith Medical Center officials expressed cautious optimism late Tuesday night that a court-ordered mediation between two state agencies and the hospital will result in the facility not being shuttered. The mediation session...