News
Photo via Governor Cuomo’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo/].In the wake of a reported spike in hate crimes after last week’s presidential election, local officials are taking action. As first reported by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-state-launches-hotline-discrimination-complaints-article-1.2874631]
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Left to Right: Neighbor Adelina Huerta, Samantha Bravo, and Nora Huertero holding a protest sign. (Photo: Elizabeth Elizalde / Sunset Park Voice)For Sunset Park resident Nora Huertero and her family, experiencing racial discrimination, eviction threats, and harassment while living in deplorable conditions their apartment have been a nightmare. Huertero said
Police & Fire
(Photo via Google Maps [https://goo.gl/maps/fvLZSc9jHjs])Local activists, lawyers, and Sunset Park Councilmember Carlos Menchaca will hold a press conference Friday at 10 a.m. outside of a building to end discrimination against Latino tenants and harassment from the homeowner. Attorneys with Neighbors Helping Neighbors [http://www.
Education
Photo courtesy of Paypaul via FlickrA Kingsborough Community College professor has filed a lawsuit accusing top administrators of creating an culture of “systemic anti-Semitism” in which Jewish faculty were openly harassed and discriminated against. The lawsuit [http://thelawfareproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Lax_Complain_EDNY.pdf], first reported by
Business
Popular photography retailer B&H is being sued by workers who allege discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender while working in the company’s Brooklyn Navy Yard warehouse. According to the workers, B&H Foto and Electronics Corporation routinely promoted and paid higher
discrimination
Photo by Kacy WigginsFollowing a community outcry over the Dunkin’ Donuts [http://www.yelp.com/biz/dunkin-donuts-brooklyn-92]at 1506 Cortelyou Road hanging a sign stating they wanted to hire only men [/blog/business/dunkin-donuts-on-cortelyou-wants-to-hire-only-male-workers], the shop has removed the poster, and the Dunkin’ Donuts corporate office sent us a statement
347 E. 5th Street
Photo via California Newsreel/YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW764dXEI_8]Occupy Kensington [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Kensington/513510922042949?fref=ts] is sponsoring a free movie night on Sunday, February 22, at 8pm at a private home at 347 E. 5th Street between Church and Beverley. All
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Apartment complex that includes 49 Bokee Court (Source: Google Maps)Three elderly, disabled Gravesend residents, along with Public Advocate Letitia James, are suing their landlord to block elevator repairs that they say would leave them trapped for months in their high-rise apartment building. Yevgenya Feldman, 90, Konstantin Berezovsky, 83, Lyubov
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Source: changeschanging / FlickrA B36 bus driver picking up passengers on Sheepshead Bay Road is in the cross-hairs for refusing to let a 10-year-old child board his bus and declaring him a “terrorist.” The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/bus-driver-calls-muslim-boy-10-terrorist-suit-article-1.1499629] that the family
discrimination
Soon-to-be neighbor Liz writes, looking for a realtor to help her and her girlfriend find a place to rent in the neighborhood. She says: > My girlfriend and I really fell in love with Ditmas Park after visiting some friends who recently moved there. > As an interracial lesbian couple,
discrimination
Source: William AlatristeFrom the office of Councilman Vincent Gentile: The New York City Council passed legislation yesterday providing a private cause of action for those unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of being unemployed – the first law of its kind in the nation. Intro 814-A will prohibit employers from using
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Lady Justice, atop the Fontaine de la Justice in Cudrefin, Switzerland. Source: Wikimedia. Click to enlargeBETWEEN THE LINES [/tag/between-the-lines/]: A 68-year-old former Brooklyn resident died of a heart attack a few weeks ago in a New Jersey nursing home, not far from where he lived until his late teens.