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Public Advocate James took center stage (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Michael Randazzo)When a contentious meeting Monday night at the Ingersoll Community Center about a proposed building with 145 affordable apartments for seniors — including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) — threatened to devolve into chaos,
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Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus.“Change the law so that people who are sober and take lives are prosecuted like the drunks.” Those words were the first out of Elsa Nicodemus’ mouth at the vigil held Tuesday night (December 22) for her daughter Victoria at the spot where
Assemblymember Walter Mosley
If you have some extra school supplies, consider donating it to help another child in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, through an upcoming back-to-school supplies and safety event/giveaway planned for 7pm on Tuesday, September 29 at Lafayette Gardens Community Center at 442 DeKalb Avenue. Donations should be new and/
Assemblymember Walter Mosley
Image via M.S. OneBrooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/msonebrooklyn].BY MEGAN MCGIBNEY The need for a middle school in Prospect Heights serving the entire School District 13 community is so great, say parents and educators, that the city’s plan for a combination K-8 elementary-middle school [https://www.dnainfo.
Assemblymember Walter Mosley
Image via WNYC [http://project.wnyc.org/speed-cameras/].It’s been a year since speed cameras were placed at intersections and highways throughout the city and the results [http://project.wnyc.org/speed-cameras/] confirm what residents have simultaneously feared [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2014/09/speed-camera-issued-6000-tickets-one-day-belt-parkway-exit-ramp/] and cheered: speed cameras