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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – It’s a three-story brick building, its windows broken, roof sagging, and façade weather-beaten. But a bold group of 15 protesters stood outside the more than 150-year-old house surrounded by newly-constructed skyscrapers on Saturday in a last ditch effort to stop the demolition of 227 Duffield Street on
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – In an effort to stall the impending demolition of 227 Duffield Street, activists are demanding the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/landmarks] (LPC) “calendar” a review of the house that they say belonged to abolitionists and served as a stop on the underground railroad. Michael
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Enma Tenezaca said she was issued a $2,000 ticket. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal)FLATBUSH – Churros. Hot dogs. Ices. Flatbush is a home to all of the above. You won’t necessarily find them in brick and mortar stores. Instead, you would walk up to a beat up cart and order
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Protest outside Errol’s Caribbean Bakery, Saturday, December 17. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)‘Errol’s bakery has to stay! Errol’s bakery has to stay!’ chanted 20 longtime and new neighbors, who trudged through the slush to protest the eviction of a beloved, 15-year-old Caribbean Bakery on Flatbush Avenue.
1598 Flatbush Avenue
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
imani henry
Equality for Flatbush [https://www.facebook.com/EqualityForFlatbush?fref=ts], a grassroots group that advocates for affordable housing in our area, among other issues, is turning to neighbors for help to raise money and awareness for its new campaign [/blog/politics/equality-flatbush-aims-connect-neighbors-new-affordable-housing-campaign] that aims to connect residents who have lived
DUI checkpoints
Saying gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn are overwhelmingly and unfairly targeted for DUI checkpoints, Equality for Flatbush [http://equalityforflatbush.tumblr.com/], a grassroots organization that works on anti-gentrification efforts in our neighborhood, recently announced it will launch a six-month community survey on NYPD checkpoints in Flatbush and East Flatbush [https://www.
before it's gone take it back
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