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EMBRACING TREASURES: THE ART OF SURVIVING

Bernice Elizabeth Green
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Our Time’s effort and intention was to help MXB antiquarians pick up business from the October 1999 “Come On Home to Bedford-Stuyvesant” Brownstone Tour.  It did.

Polished Act: Dalton Taylor, proprietor of The Victorian antiques, on Tompkins Avenue, near Hancock St., in Brooklyn, NY, is an expert in woodstripping, repairing furniture, wainscoting, molding and more. and bringing new life to old furniture. "These day multitasking is essential for survival. If a small-business owner can keep the doors from closing, you're okay." photo/BLMason

Ten years ago, Our Time Press christened three blocks on Malcolm X Blvd., between Halsey Street and Decatur Street, “Antiques Row.” 

  Within two years, the corridor had extended from Anthony Smith’s Odd Things’ Collectibles at Decatur and MXB to Morton’s Antique Memories at the northwest corner of Putnam Avenue.  Clarence Barber, veteran of them all, and Paul Tyner and Greta Niles, who rented a space inside Tyner’s place, across from Barber’s, enjoyed steady traffic.   

 Dalton Taylor’s The Victorian on Tompkins Avenue South, Ken William’s high-end Mercantile on the corner of Fulton Street and Irving, and Eddie Hibbert’s cave of a treasure chest on Myrtle, attracted collectors from all over the city. 

 All of the furniture dealers had a common goal: to keep business going, and to prosper.

 Now only Mr. “C” survives on the original Antiques Row.  Greta may be in Florida, site of her dream Antiques emporium.  Tyner and Morton have not been heard from, although Morton may be residing nearby. Mr. Smith is retired to stately Savannah, GA, his Odd Things replaced by the high-scale Thompson’s Interiors – hardly a place, now, for stuff. 

 Taylor and Hibbert are still around, plying trade amidst salvaged architectural gems, from pier mirrors, painted wood mantles and victor-victrolas to brass hinges, old Ebony and National Geographic magazines, spinster’s diaries and framed photos of high school class pictures of the 50’s, and tons of other bits and pieces.

 Business is slow.  “All small businesses are suffering because of the economy,” Taylor told us.  “Nearly 40 antique shops along Atlantic Avenue (site of 1999’s real Antiques Row) have closed their doors for good.  If you can keep the doors from closing, you’re doing OK.”

 Plus a lot of folks are accessing their shopping via the Internet and selling their secondhand things for first-class prices on Craig’s List.   But these stalwarts are hanging in there.  Not because they love the business.

 The answer to why Taylor, Hibbert and Mr. C are still around walked into The Victorian last week.  She asked to see Taylor’s doors.  Turned out the doors he showed her were too small to fashion a 6-ft dining table out of one of them.   Taylor advised that she visit Eddie Hibbert, where she would find exactly what she wanted. After all, Eddie is the door king.  Particularly antique and old one’s.

Opening Doors: Eddie Hibbert's treasure trove on Greene Avenue@ Grand attracts antique collectors from all over New York. photo/Mark Stewart

 

“Eddie sends three to four people a day over to my shop,” says Dalton. 

 Small businesses are being forced to create commercial alliances to stay afloat. It commands integrity and respect and an understanding that sharing customers is the only way to go.  “It’s a buyers’ market, and people are not buying.”

 It doesn’t hurt, either, that Taylor strips furniture, makes repairs, refinishes and executes a range of other artisan skills, including wainscoting and crafting moldings. He knows that in today’s economy, it pays to be multifaceted. 

 Mr. C’s been a fixture on the avenue for close to 40 years, and admits that real estate investment and stock market tinkering has a lot more to do with it than the occasional sale of a rare, vintage mahogany mantle or a junked lamp.

 Hibbert’s super-rare finds are stored in and sold from an open, easy-access warehouse situation at Greene & Gates, the heart of Clinton Hill’s brownstoner neighborhood.  He oversees the work of a Class A wood-stripping team, and he is known for his almost-uncanny ability to “attract” great pieces of furniture and unusual finds – the kind you see oil-polished in House & Garden.  Or that you used to see in the now-defunct H&G.

 In 2001, Mr. Hibbert introduced us to Jomo Oliya, a cabinetmaker who said that antique dealers, “have a soul connection with nature, and with the builders and carpenters of the past.  They hold a piece of wood.  They understand it. They respect it. They know it was shaped from the heart.  They have a special knowledge.”

 Mr. Taylor shared “knowledge” about brownstones, the final havens for much of Hibbert, Mr. C’s and Taylor’s objets d’art: “They are extraordinary treasures.  Like living within a work of art. And sometimes people fail to see that the beauty of them also is in the fact that they are always being fixed up, repaired, nurtured; they are living things.  They were made when craftsmanship was king.  They can never be replaced or built ever again.”

(Note:  Please see Our Time Press Business Directory for location and contact information for The Victorian and Eddie’s Treasures.)

– Bernice Elizabeth Green

HEALTH CARE REFORM:America's Pre-Existing Condition or …

Kimberlee Currans-Leto
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 … How Do You Mend a Broken System,

Broken Promises, Broken Hearts?

(Part 5 of Five Parts)

Kimberlee Currans-Leto

UPSTATE ROUNDTABLE

 

 (Troy, New York) There’s something rotten in America.  While other countries provide for their citizens, ours continue to struggle at every turn. 

 

In today’s economy, families are faced with impossible pressures and decisions that carry great impact upon their futures.  Many do not have savings and do not have retirement because they chose to provide for their children.

 

President Obama is taking a great gamble that policymakers will finally see the light.  The numbers do not lie.  This year over 47,000 people in America will die due to lack of health insurance coverage.  This reality many experts attribute to lack of affordable options for families who do not have coverage through their employment or do not qualify for state-funded programs. Today in America over 46,000,000 people lack health insurance coverage. Many of these people agree if there were an affordable option, they would be insured.

 

Who pays for this lack of coverage for the uninsured should they fall ill or become hurt in an accident?  One answer: we all do. 

 

It does not matter which side of the reform one stands for, this issue hurts us all with the rising costs of premiums, co-pays, prescription allotments and limitations on existing coverage. As a result, many struggle to keep coverage.  Insurance companies continue to make money off of everyone while limiting those who can participate by including the pre-existing condition clause. 

 

In many states the insurance company excludes pre-existing conditions up to one year.  This concept, creatively designed by the industry as a loophole of exclusion, symbolizes what is rotten at the core of the industry and it makes health care reform all the more complicated.  How do you remedy a broken system with not just broken promises but a sick way of determining who gets coverage?  The ironic twist is that many families would give up their life savings, the deed to their homes, if it meant they could have affordable, adequate health care coverage for pre-existing conditions like diabetes and asthma.

 

Many families have some form of pre-existing condition that’s not covered.  Many are excluded altogether and have been given no choice but to alter their lifestyles drastically in order to qualify for state-funded programs.  How is this right or moral – to make hardworking people quit their jobs, divorce their spouses so that they can have health insurance?  This shows just how broken the current system has become, representing the blatant manipulation of insurance companies who not only profit but benefit because so many laws allow them to get away with such actions. 

 

The uninsured argument: Many things contribute to Americans taking the risk of living without health insurance and this happens more than people think about.  While many Americans fall into this category without harm to themselves or their families, I believe many do not even fathom the risk they are taking with their lives.  Many people create a gap without knowing otherwise when they discontinue coverage before starting a new policy.  Just that brief period of time can create an inconceivable nightmare, one that can follow a family for years and jeopardize every aspect of their well-being. 

 

For young children like Sheldon Wagner and others like him who fall through the cracks of broken public systems, an overall system defined by hierarchy and wealth; there must be a better way to provide health care for every American equally and fairly.  Part of the issue many conservatives cannot empathize with is the notion of covering pre-existing conditions; they believe it overburdens quality health care by allowing those who are sicker to receive treatments at the same price as those not sick at all.  Furthermore, it is felt from the conservative side that some should suffer as a consequence of their actions.  It seems unfair the only crime is being poor while others have no choice but to lower their standard of living in order to save their families.  It just brings to light how divided this country remains when instead, all Americans should be working together to solve this issue. 

 

What many do not or cannot see is how much this reform will impact other reforms and set into action the foundation needed for America’s rebirth. What the conservatives do not understand from an economic standpoint, someone will be paying for the uninsured and those labelled by pre-existing illness. This may explain the outrageousness of some hospital bills or why a ten-minute consultation costs $250.  Why aren’t people outraged, disgusted at the state of health care in this country?  Why hasn’t a mob scene incurred on Capitol Hill?

 

What we know in our hearts: President Obama is on the path to doing what’s right.  While so many seem trapped by the status quo of thinking: “There is nothing that can be done” to change something so rotten and immoral, he has this country participating in change, in finding our voices.

 

We no longer can ignore that everyday people are suffering while so many of us just blend into the background unable or unwilling to take a stand, not knowing how far our voices will carry an impact.  I will take that stand for people who have not been heard.

 

Thompson Offers Comprehensive Economic Plan For All New Yorkers

Mary Alice Miller
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     New York has had eight years of what mayoral candidate Bill Thompson calls a “barbell economy” that “created low-paying jobs with no benefits on one end, high-paying jobs predominately in finance and business services on the other, and very few jobs in between.” According to Thompson, the “middle class, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and working families have been shut out.” Thompson has introduced a comprehensive plan “that focuses on  real solutions to create a diverse post-boom era economy that produces long-term, living-wage jobs.”

Thompson’s A New Direction for a New Economy has a three-pronged approach: make New York City a true center of entrepreneurial, small business growth; restructure our workforce development system to give New Yorkers the skills required to hold jobs that pay good wages; and include the entire city and all economic groups in the creation of long-term, living-wage jobs and career ladders to the middle class as a top priority.

In a recent presentation to the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, Bill Thompson spoke of the plight of New York’s historic Garment District as an example of how private sector jobs and businesses have been negatively impacted by current policies.  

New York’s world-class Garment District has traditionally thrived because of the close proximity of talent across the field – clothing designers, pattern makers, fabric manufacturers, producers of buttons, zippers and trim makers, garment manufacturers, showrooms and merchandisers, and fashion show operations. These entities require space to sustain and grow the industry. Thompson points to Bloomberg’s development and rezoning policies as a threat to the industry – an assertion supported by the Garment Industry Development Corporation.

According to Thompson, since 2002, nearly 2,000 acres of manufacturing zones have been rezoned for other uses. “To make matters worse,” said Thompson, “the city now wants to rezone another 1,800 acres – a combined 20 percent of our manufacturing acreage and 40 percent of already-built industrial space – despite the fact that many of our 7,000 manufacturers are looking to expand.” Thompson said he will “enforce existing zoning regulations that were established to protect manufacturers from real estate speculators who offer only short-term leases – a practice that has discouraged many manufacturers from locating in New York City.” Thompson would place a “moratorium” on the proposed rezoning of an additional 1,800 acres in manufacturing zones. He said he will also “work with manufacturers, the fashion industry and labor unions to arrange for up to one million square feet of dedicated garment manufacturing space in nonprofit buildings, the amount of space the industry says it requires to thrive and to expand.”

With help from low-cost financing and grants, Thompson said he will also “replicate programs like the highly successful Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center which helps nonprofits acquire, rehabilitate and renovate run-down industrial properties. These new centers will be designed for occupancy at affordable rents by small manufacturers and creative firms in fields such as architecture, design and high tech.” In addition, as mayor, Thompson said he would develop a centralized, online, searchable  database of all available commercial space under 5,000  square feet for small business tenants looking for open, small commercial space. He would also establish “Retail Retention Zones” which would offer incentives to property owners so that “independent retailers can compete for retail space with deep-pocketed retail chains and banks.”

To better support NYC’s small business and long-term economic health, “We must also help New Yorkers acquire the skills they need to compete for jobs created by these newly empowered businesses,” said Thompson. “Under Mayor Bloomberg, the current $925 million dollar city-administered [workforce development] system is uncoordinated and often at odds with itself.” Thompson’s office found “the system lacks a unifying mission, and that its 33 different programs report to three different deputy mayors with no reference to a citywide economic development strategy.” Specifically, Thompson said, “It’s incredible that the Department of Education’s Career and Technical programs – which trains thousands of high school students in everything from aircraft mechanics to computer technology – are entirely separate from the rest of the workforce development system, and that no one is in charge of coordinating the whole effort.”

Thompson said as mayor, he would establish a Mayor’s Office of Skills Development to ensure that “our city’s workforce development efforts are comprehensive, coordinated and focused on sectors where our city seeks a competitive advantage.”

Thompson’s support for small businesses as NY’s economic engine is concrete. According to Thompson, “Roughly 98 percent of New York City firms have fewer than 100 employees. These businesses account for almost half the city’s private-sector payroll.”

The Office of the Comptroller under Bill Thompson has paid particular attention to Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises. A recent audit found the Department of Small Business Services (DSBS) did not completely comply with Local Law 129, which was enacted in response to a disparity study commissioned by the NYC Council in 2005. The study found that there was a significant disparity in contracting opportunities afforded to certain M/WBE groups in the procurement of construction, professional services, standard services and goods. Local Law 129 was intended to address the disparities revealed by the study. As stated in the law, DSBS “shall administer, coordinate and enforce a citywide program established by local law for the identification, recruitment, certification and participation in city procurement of Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises.”

Thompson said, “The fundamental goal of the program is to increase M/WBE participation in the city’s procurement process, not merely to give these companies an opportunity to compete.” The Comptroller’s Review of FY 2008 agency purchases from M/WBEs found that of the 23 agencies that were required to submit an agency utilization plan, 12 agencies met a total of 21 prime contract utilization goals out of 241 applicable categories. The total value of the prime contracts entered into by these agencies was $369,417,386, with a targeted goal to spend $107,816,905 in contracts with M/WBEs. “However,” said Thompson, “the actual value of contracts with M/WBEs was a paltry 14 percent of that goal, or $14,882,561.”

Comptroller Thompson found several noncompliance issues of contractors that were discovered by DSBS, including: a prime contractor adjusted the subcontracting requirements of a contract without notifying the agency; no proof of payment to a subcontractor was provided by the prime contractor for two contracts; and a prime contractor did not meet its subcontracting goals.  The Comptroller’s Office surprisingly found that although noncompliance was discovered, DSBS never notified the audited agencies and contractors of the findings.  “If an agency is not made aware of the audit’s outcome, especially when there are findings of noncompliance, there is no way to ensure they know what is taking place and certainly have no means to ensure the problem gets rectified,” Thompson said. “Common sense was missing here.”

Thompson has made several recommendations, including that DSBS should: immediately meet with all agencies not meeting their goals to discuss ways that they could improve, and document the results of those meetings; at least annually review and document its review of the utilization of M/WBEs by the agencies subject to the local law requirements to determine if they are meeting the goals stated in their M/WBE utilization plans; meet and document its meetings with the agencies that are not achieving their M/WBE utilization goals to determine the reason(s) the goals are not being met and whether the agencies are making all reasonable efforts to do so. In addition, based on the results of these meetings, DSBS should determine whether any common factors exist among the agencies that may need to be addressed, and establish a system whereby audit findings are followed up with contractors (both prime and subs as appropriate) and contracting agencies in a timely manner.

Bill Thompson has established on the Comptroller’s website a list of procurement resources for Minority and Women-owned businesses.

 

 

 

 

     

BSRC 10K Run, October 11, 2009 Race Results

Editor, Our Time Press
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Photo Caption – 10K Champs: Kirt Joseph of Bedford Stuyvesant (center) was the top winner at Restoration’s annual race, last Saturday. He’s flanked here by 2nd to 5th places winners, from left to right: Jesse Horst, 25, a 10th-grade social studies teacher at Wingate H.S.; Gideon Mornix, 37; Manuel Plascincia, 46, and Patrick Stewart, 34, of Union , N.J. Joseph, 38, who clocked in at 0:33:10.24, last ran this race 10 years ago and promises to run it again next year. Horst, who trailed Joseph by 9 seconds, said, “It was a surreal experience running down Bedford Avenue and Throop Avenue and there were no cars. Beautiful!”

BSRC 10K Run, October 11, 2009

 

Place     Time               Name               Age

1               0:33:10.24            Kirt Joseph  38

2               0:33:19.81            Jesse Horst     25

3               0:34:22.68            Gideon Mornix 37

4               0:35:03.84            Manuel Plascincia               46

5               0:35:27.68            Patrick stewart 34

6               0:35:33.71            Daniel Odria    26

7               0:36:05.08            Walter Dupont 53

8               0:36:05.37            Frank Morris  24

9               0:36:06.71            Jason Don Corley               42

10               0:36:08.62            Bernardo Hernandez               48

11               0:36:13.68            Nigel Noel      20

12               0:36:17.30            James McFarlane               53

13               0:36:20.34            Haibo Lu               23

14               0:36:28.74            Lewis Santoni 51

15               0:36:38.74            Paul Nelson  28

16               0:37:59.87            Osei Doyle    29

17               0:38:01.84            David Crawford               25

18               0:43:05.52            Matthew Fraser   54

19               0:44:23.46            Sarah Scott      32

20               0:44:29.96               Winthrop Jacobs               53

21               0:44:48.43            Anthony Watson               51

22               0:44:59.74               Christopher Hrones               37

23               0:45:04.52            Bryan Drew     31

24               0:45:09.43            Arthur Vendryes               41

25               0:45:37.87               RebeccaRosenberg-Beran                      27

26               0:45:56.96            Justin Steil       31

27               0:46:04.08            Kevin Glover   55

28               0:46:13.30               Alejandro Amaro               48

29               0:46:24.46            Peter McGuire               23

30               0:46:29.84            Cinthya Sandoval               25

31               0:46:38.30            Charles Williams Jr.               34

32               0:46:44.11            Louis Governaca               35

33               0:46:44.58            Mishka Vertin    30

34               0:46:51.90            David Hamilton               42

35               0:46:55.93            Justin Bragg    27

36               0:47:00.02            Ariel Buda-Levin               30

37               0:47:03.78            Philip Brown   53

38               0:47:12.71            Patrice Dodson 41

39               0:47:14.05            Reggie Rasch    39

40               0:47:30.87            Rebecca Sterrett 30

41               0:47:32.58            Joseph Behnke  26

42               0:47:33.84            Mark Price     32

43               0:47:42.02            Andrea Pryce     38

44               0:47:48.99            Lynette Henry    41

45               0:47:51.27            A-Born Etchison               46

46               0:47:52.99            Karriem Wardlow               36

47               0:48:05.02            Wendell DaSilva 59

48               0:48:05.52            Ike Goodman               63

49               0:48:09.14            Cynthia Vredenburgh               31

50               0:48:12.27            Andrea White    31

51               0:48:27.71            Greg Maher   48

52               0:48:34.52            Greg DiGesu  44

53               0:48:36.18            Carl Hixson  36

54               0:48:36.99            Olister Lorde     54

55               0:48:37.46            Robert Hester   30

56               0:48:53.05               Cornelius Rountree               25

57               0:48:53.37            Elizabeth Lynch    34

58               0:49:03.81            Jessica Freeman               23

59               0:49:04.18            Charlotte VanWagenen               23

60               0:49:07.52            Asmeret Berhe-Lumax               32

61               0:49:08.05            Jill Merenda               47

62               0:49:14.62            Troy Grady    37

63               0:49:17.11            Arturo Rosales               31

64               0:49:20.46            Theodore Hamilton               40

65               0:49:24.93            Don Hodge   59

66               0:49:26.46               Ainveyburris Burris               21

67               0:49:32.24            Tanya Mays     30

68               0:49:32.55            Kim Harper  36

69               0:49:32.93            Rodney Slmmons               49

70               0:49:39.24               Mahshadul Alam 31

71               0:49:53.87            Rashad Smith    22

72               0:49:54.78            Bill Schleining               51

73               0:50:00.14            Pernall Duncan 25

74               0:50:01.99            Rickey Deadwyler               54

75               0:50:06.71            Jaimewn Obanao               37

76               0:50:08.74            Victor Cruz       31

77               0:50:09.27            Richard Lowe      53

78               0:50:15.46            Michael Weippert               27

79               0:50:15.87            BIas Abadia Jr               54

80               0:50:17.68            Heidi Reijm    31

81               0:50:21.78            Q Ostendorf               32

82               0:50:22.43            Mark Griffith 46

83               0:50:23.24            Fernando Coyoltecatl               43

84               0:50:24.40            Jay Meisel  32

85               0:50:29.46            Angel Santiago               41

86               0:50:30.21            Lothar Jaeger   59

87               0:50:32.81            Pierre Downing               28

88               0:50:35.90            Suzan Harry    26

89               0:50:36.71            Kevin Smith    35

90               0:50:40.65            Matthew Klein     38

91               0:50:44.18            Pedro Lugo      60

92               0:50:48.37            James Klett      21

93               0:50:52.08            Anthony Riojas   21

94               0:50:55.96            Jacqui Detwller               25

95               0:51:05.58            Dana McLoughlin               27

96               0:51:05.84            andrew langham               36

97               0:51:08.40            Letisha Jenkins 25

98               0:51:23.87            Courtney Wolf      30

99               0:51:24.52            Andre Matthews               49

100               0:51:25.58            Kevin Edwards               39

101               0:51:28.18            Jan Vaughn 44

102               0:51:33.46            Eric Smlth    50

103               0:51:39.84            Amy Rustan  28

104               0:51:43.78            Melvin Stokes   61

105               0:51:45.96            Jal Paul Haughton               51

106               0:52:10.55            Fred Moore   61

107               0:52:14.21            Gordon Hatchett               53

108               0:52:16.65            Karenga Arifu      38

109               0:52:21.27            Anthony Asiaghi 55

110               0:52:27.11               Addranna Montgomery               40

111               0:52:29.27            Lee Trotman               26

112               0:52:32.65            Aubertus Brever   41

113               0:52:37.49            Michael West     56

114               0:52:40.49            Robert Unger    62

115               0:52:42.05            Arnold Gore      68

116               0:52:52.37            Malecia Walker 34

117               0:52:54.14            Bruce Bowman               62

118               0:53:03.43            John Maher   13

119               0:53:08.99            Richard Brooks  38

120               0:53:10.27            Sophie Anger    36

121               0:53:12.90            Liz Washington               38

122               0:53:17.11            Ryan Kim               33

123               0:53:20.68            Meridith McDonald               25

124               0:53:22.43            Sara Steenrod               32

125               0:53:26.99            Mario Tumax   30

126               0:53:27.99            Nadine Dechausay               31

127               0:53:29.52            Simon G               36

128               0:53:48.93            Melissa Axelod  28

129               0:53:59.46            Anishea Williams               27

130               0:53:59.78            Ulysses Irey        46

131               0:54:01.08            Wendi Leggitt   24

132               0:54:01.62            Anna Bullett   25

133               0:54:01.96               Marguerite Zampini               28

134               0:54:02.24            Abdur Rahman               59

135               0:54:02.78            Norman Miller   47

136               0:54:03.49            Jerry Deadwyler               55

137               0:54:06.46            Karen Kallmeyer               27

138               0:54:21.62            Nancy Campbell               31

139               0:54:22.27            Susanna O’kula   22

140               0:54:30.43            Garth Trotman               41

141               0:54:39.87            Monroe Morton 49

142               0:54:47.55            Bkaskar Skivastava               36

143               0:54:54.18            Alex Fietzer   29

144               0:54:56.11            Tu Harris               32

145               0:54:57.49            Elisa Kim               25

146               0:55:03.08            Avery Gaskin  27

147               0:55:07.52            Walter Moseley               64

148               0:55:11.02            Hunter Armstrong               34

149               0:55:11.58            Roger Thomas               41

150               0:55:33.87            Billy Mitchell               55

151               0:55:36.90            Aja Williams               25

152               0:55:38.84            Lavern Walsh   43

153               0:55:41.74            Jeff Wilkins               28

154               0:55:43.81            Katie Henry    28

155               0:55:47.43            Corey McFarlane               24

156               0:55:50.46            Judith Reiberg 59

157               0:55:57.71               Katherine Levy    22

158               0:55:58.08            Lauren Bauder  25

159               0:56:05.84            Edward Colemith               58

160               0:56:06.87            Glenn Hill        37

161               0:56:08.37               Francisco Rivera               53

162               0:56:12.68            Jeff Weiss   30

163               0:56:14.74            Tracey Lewis     36

164               0:56:32.71                            

165               0:56:41.55            Edward Jackson               44

166               0:56:45.27            Michael Taliaferro               47

167               0:57:01.93            Carly Wilkins               27

168               0:57:22.96               Brendalyn King   26

169               0:57:27.93            Bruno Sanchez-Andrade               28

170               0:57:29.74            Noah Katz       42

171               0:57:35.87            David Feibusch              

172               0:57:37.78            Janine Thomson              

173               0:57:45.52            Michelle Gedney 23

174               0:58:02.84            Philip Kedney  44

175               0:58:09.18            Lance Anderson Jr               34

176               0:58:09.96            David Pinto    

177               0:58:20.52            Irasema Rivera   46

178               0:58:20.81            Carmen Ayola    48

179               0:58:24.71            Drema Brown   37

180               0:58:28.93            Laki Taylor   31

181               0:58:54.24            Daniel Fountenberry               31

182               0:58:57.68            Johana Carter   60

183               0:59:04.81            Veronica Antoine 53

184               0:59:11.93            Carin Clary     26

185               0:59:12.49            Osmany Cabrera               28

186               0:59:15.87            Kendra Cabrera               25

187               0:59:17.21            Meghan Jewett    26

188               0:59:22.84            Herbert Johnson               48

189               0:59:37.58            Erica Waters 34

190               0:59:37.93            Greq Felice    39

191               0:59:42.24            Racnel Marcus 28

192               0:59:55.21            Craig Deardorff               30

193               0:59:59.84            Vilasinec Bunnag 36

194               1:00:00.14            Meredith Bergman               33

195               1:00:01.34            Randi Hatchel 37

196               1:00:07.43            Kemba Dunham               37

197               1:00:11.08            Margot Brandenberg               30

198               1:00:21.18            Folake Oguntebi               30

199               1:00:23.18            Lela Moore   33

200               1:00:33.99            Beverly Reese    40

201               1:00:34.27            Tanasia Mclaurin               24

202               1:00:45.78            Garlando Howard               24

203               1:00:46.14            Kimberly Ryan      29

204               1:00:48.68            Truong Pham    32

205               1:00:50.46            Robert Smith    53

206               1:00:57.02            Melissa Bhana   31

207               1:00:57.52            Erika VanDam               29

208               1:00:58.55            Opic Snow Heyermen               33

209               1:00:58.87            Allyson Cole       30

210               1:01:02.14            Pechseda Nak        23

211               1:01:03.11            Omar DeJesu  30

212               1:01:04.02            Antonio Bengochea               24

213               1:01:05.87            Shantelle Benton  39

214               1:01:07.49            James Emery    47

215               1:01:07.71            Willie Brooks  61

216               1:01:11.58            Rafael Frias     18

217               1:01:12.68            Shannon Gaviana               38

218               1:01:13.21            Kesone Himmasone               31

219               1:01:19.27            Cleo Godsey 36

220               1:01:31.65            Michael Ferguson               60

221               1:01:36.30            Melanie Harris   30

222               1:02:06.87            Lana Hum      40

223               1:02:15.43            Carline Bennett 30

224               1:02:17.05            Robert Holmes 38

225               1:02:26.96            Patrick May       31

226               1:02:27.49            Megan O’Meara               30

227               1:02:29.27            Jeff Niblack 28

228               1:02:37.68            Veronica Gether   43

229               1:02:41.71            Suzette Cox        35

230               1:02:43.65            Debbie Richardson          

231               1:02:50.96               Antoinette Lucas 40

232               1:02:53.49            Sommer Browning               33

233               1:03:20.46               Alexandra CroSier               33

234               1:03:20.87            Paul Thomas               52

235               1:03:34.34               Alexandra Goncalves               31

236               1:03:45.68            Ayisha Doyle    35

237               1:03:46.34            Caz Blumhagen               33

238               1:03:48.52            Phillip LeFevre 40

239               1:03:49.37            Brittany Freese   24

240               1:03:51.96            Calvin Myers   66

241               1:03:54.52            Stacey Piculell 27

242               1:04:00.18            Amy Febinger               33

243               1:04:01.27            Jennifer Martin  27

244               1:04:14.55            Ryan Delorge 28

245               1:04:28.18            Robert Rodriguez               45

246               1:04:28.49            Rebecca Cella     28

247               1:04:32.68            Steve Larosiliere           

248               1:04:52.14            Ashley Cross   

249               1:04:52.43            Charlene Kohler-Britton               58

250               1:05:01.21            Dathonie Pinto    

251               1:05:01.74            Natasha Wolkoff               35

252               1:05:02.18            Saron Harry    31

253               1:05:02.52            Judith George  52

254               1:05:27.52            Anthony White    32

255               1:05:43.55            Erwin Samuels               27

256               1:05:44.08            Robert Marceda               39

257               1:05:44.58            Martha Stone     26

258               1:05:45.24            Jill Crocker 27

259               1:05:48.74            William Rojas    21

260               1:06:16.11            Michelle Robertson               49

261               1:06:21.34            Michael LeGrand               43

262               1:06:29.58            Dalphine Smith    58

263               1:06:29.93            Jorge Chacon 33

264               1:06:39.71            Josie Rodberg               27

265               1:07:17.05            Jennifer Barros  32

266               1:07:24.71            Cheryl Ching    31

267               1:07:39.18            Jim Isaacs   68

268               1:07:55.93            Carey Shea     

269               1:07:56.65            Nykia Wharton               35

270               1:08:09.68            Shirley Brown   51

271               1:08:09.96            Anthony White    32

272               1:08:12.71            Gaten Bryant   64

273               1:08:28.55            Dana Worthy 34

274               1:08:37.27            Brandi Haynes 35

275               1:09:06.11            Cara D’Arco   22

276               1:09:06.43            Cleon Moseley               40

277               1:09:09.37            Clark Aycock  40

278               1:09:09.90            Henry Plnckney               63

279               1:09:10.65            Alex Anselmo               26

280               1:09:19.78            Susan Epstein 66

281               1:09:22.43            Lisa Witler   45

282               1:09:29.71            Leona Lewis     16

283               1:09:30.78            Joseph Pottanat               32

284               1:09:41.81            April Isaacs   29

285               1:09:57.84            Karlene Wint      40

286               1:10:19.05            Cidra Sebastien               30

287               1:10:37.02            Meghan Huppuch               23

288               1:11:00.52            Elana Fogel     21

289               1:11:21.84               Madeleine Whittington               54

290               1:11:22.30            Timothy Mahoney               22

291               1:11:22.81            Daisy Okas     36

292               1:11:33.96            Tyeslha Delk      

293               1:11:36.46            Robyn Kennely               46

294               1:11:37.68            Julla Snyder  24

295               1:11:40.08            Kathleen Fallon   37

296               1:11:49.37            Yaffa Reyeu    52

297               1:11:50.49            Chi Iregbulem               36

298               1:11:51.65            John Plata     46

299               1:11:55.24            Nancy Pease    48

300               1:12:03.21            Kimberly Abbage 32

301               1:12:11.62            Stacey Blissett-Saaved               31

302               1:12:22.65            James Barnett 56

303               1:12:23.74            Doris Lloyd     52

304               1:12:24.05            Deli Walsh   46

305               1:12:35.08               Stephanie Washington               40

306               1:12:36.21            Dawn Hardy    35

307               1:13:31.90            Alonzo Miles    55

308               1:13:32.43            Davindor Kaur      23

309               1:13:40.81            Andrea Clinton 48

310               1:13:45.43               Kimberleigh Smith               42

311               1:13:51.34            Elsie Aldahondo               32

312               1:14:06.37            Leila Richardson               55

313               1:14:20.34            Malivia Oyo       35

314               1:15:00.37            Louis Lopez     42

315               1:15:07.40            Nicki Fietzer   27

316               1:15:29.30            Yvonne Mullings               54

317               1:16:17.30            Olga Rapalo  60

318               1:16:27.62               Ferdinand Aague               59

319               1:16:46.49            Maggie Bodo     60

320               1:17:41.02            Truong Pham    32

321               1:17:49.37            Debleena Roy        30

322               1:18:38.46            Niama Oyo       34

323               1:18:58.78            Min Chia               35

324               1:19:32.24            Lani M’cleod               29

325               1:19:32.55            Jane Northy  33

326               1:19:33.08            Daryl Hugglns               39

327               1:19:33.65            Aurona Sandoval               43

328               1:20:15.37            Tiffany Anderson               40

329               1:20:15.68            Maggie Bodo     60

330               1:20:38.55            Anthony Alvareuya               38

331               1:20:41.99            Rafael Pinto    

332               1:21:00.37            Rosa Pinto    

333               1:21:34.21            Anasa Scott      30

334               1:22:25.18            Sher Lokhandwalla               39

335               1:22:26.65            Sherrese Clarke   33

336               1:25:23.58            Sandra Patterson               44

337               1:25:24.37            Shanae Cloud    17

338               1:26:01.71            Peter Buffington               74



 

Medgar Evers College Commemorates Domestic Violence Month

Mary Alice Miller
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Domestic violence came close to home this year at Medgar Evers College. Two days after the beginning of the semester, a tragic case of domestic abuse occurred on the streets near the college.

On a bright, sunny afternoon student Kaidan Ramsey, 22, was confronted by her enraged husband, Lenox Ramsey, 25, as she was entering the campus. Lenox Ramsey dragged Kaidan down the street. According to witnesses, when she broke free, desperately screaming for help, Ramsey chased Kaidan, grabbed her arm and screamed, “I got a gun, don’t —- with me!” After Ramsey fired two warning shots into the air to scatter the crowd, Lenox shot Kaidan twice in the back. Kaidan was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition. She survived the attack. Police arrested Lenox shortly after the incident. Lenox Ramsey told detectives he thought his wife was having an affair with a fellow Medgar Evers student.

Kaidan had moved out of the couple’s home three days earlier. Lenox, a security guard, was known to frequently fight with his wife and fellow residents in the couple’s apartment building in Brownsville, according to neighbors.

The horrific incident was recorded on a nearby surveillance camera.

On Monday, October 19th at 1:30 pm, the Male Development and Empowerment Center (MDEC) will host a special domestic violence forum in the Founders Auditorium. The gathering, entitled “Domestic Violence: Moving Men from Allies to Activists,” is designed for male students as part of an ongoing effort to address the issue of domestic violence from a male perspective.

“We are trying to raise awareness amongst men,” said Larry Martin, director of the Male Development and Empowerment Center, “and attempting to educate and re-educate our men about their personal responsibility in ending men’s violence against women.”

Special guest speakers are community voices who work with men on a wide variety of issues. Quentin Walcott is program director of CONNECT Training Institute (CTI) – an organization whose mission is to expand the number of professionals and community members who have a deep understanding of the dynamics and consequences of violence in the family. By providing intensive training, CTI participants with tools necessary to develop community-based solutions for the complex problem of family violence. Lumumba Bandele is a SEEK program instructor and domestic violence activist. Kevin Powell is a community activist, author and Male Development spokesman who has spoken and written extensively on the issue of domestic violence.

Through this event, MDEC hopes to prompt a discussion that assists men in identifying abusive tendencies, educates them on avenues for finding help with this issue, and trains those who are faced with this difficult situation on means of safely intervening.

“We are targeting men and what they can do,” said a spokesperson for Medgar Evers President William L. Pollard. This year’s gathering, in recognition of Domestic Violence Month, is part of President Pollard’s overall mission to make Medgar Evers College a “student-centered campus.”
The event is open to the community.

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