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Neighbors Rally Outside Flatbush Junction Target; Call For Dropping Charges Against Alando Brissett, Who Was Punched & Pinned To Ground During Arrest

Residents and other community activists protested outside the Flatbush Junction Target yesterday. Photo by Ditmas Park CornerFor the dozens of people standing outside the Flatbush Junction Target Monday evening, the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6yXgFoz2O0]showing a 25-year-old neighbor, Alando Brissett [/blog/crime/community-speak-out-planned-in-support-of-alando-brissett-who-was-pinned-to-ground-punched-during-arrest-at-flatbush-junction-target] , being punched and

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Neighbors Gather At Bar Chord To Raise Money For Equality For Flatbush’s Fight Against Rent Hikes, Evictions & More

Activists Victor Moses and Cuiyu Wu attend Equality for Flatbush’s fundraiser at Bar Chord on Sunday, March 22.Equality for Flatbush [https://www.facebook.com/EqualityForFlatbush] organizers are well on their way to raising the $12,000 they need to launch a combination neighborhood storytelling platform and housing justice

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JACK Arts Center Launches “Forward Ferguson” Series

Performer Andre Zachery. (Photo courtesy of Rachel Neville/JACK [http://www.jackny.org]).The latest performance series to come out of local arts nonprofit JACK [http://www.jackny.org] is called “Forward Ferguson [http://www.jackny.org/forward-ferguson.html]” and, as its title suggests, its collection of dance, theater, music,

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Putting A Face To The Crime In Our Neighborhood

Following the armed robberies at Lark Café [/blog/crime/lark-cafe-robbed-gunpoint-last-night], Ox Cart [/blog/crime/three-men-rob-ox-cart-tavern-gunpoint-last-night], Mimi’s Hummus [/blog/crime/police-release-photo-suspect-allegedly-robbed-mimis-hummus-gunpoint] , and a Church Avenue deli [/blog/crime/deli-church-avenue-stratford-road-robbed-last-night], we think it’s incredibly important to tell the stories of our neighbors who were in our local establishments at the

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Equality For Flatbush’s Imani Henry On Gentrification, Educating Yourself & The Urgency Of Documenting Modern Brooklyn

The topic of gentrification is an important one in our neighborhood [/blog/tag/gentrification]–and in neighborhoods across Brooklyn–that has a habit of eliciting lively, and often times divisive, discourse. People feel guilty about gentrifying and people feel violated when their areas are gentrified, and it seems as if