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Image via americanvirus/Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/americanvirus/3688768361/].We truly live in a connected world, with friends, family, strangers, news, and more available at the touch of a finger to a phone screen. But for many low-income New Yorkers, particularly those who live in public housing, internet
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Photo courtesy of Darold Burgess.Voter registration may be over for anyone seeking to vote in the April 19 presidential primary (FYI it’s not too late to register for the main thing, aka General Election in November), but Fort Greene community leaders definitely made the most of the time
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Let there be light. Now that a $4.8 million lighting installation project has been completed at Harlem’s Polo Grounds Towers public housing development, the city is continuing to go full steam ahead at the next eight (8) locations — including our very own Ingersoll
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Image via DCPI.Remember: a baseball bat is more dangerous than your average “toy.” One of them was used in the beating of a 19-year-old man on Monument Walk at the Ingersoll Houses this past Monday, March 7, at around 10:25pm, according to cops. Police stated that the teen
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Image via NYPD.Police have released a “Wanted” poster with a photo of the man suspected of shooting — and killing — three Ingersoll Houses residents [/blog/2015/09/21/three-men-shot-and-killed-at-ingersoll-houses-this-weekend/], including local grandfather figure Herbert Brown [/blog/2015/09/22/ingersoll-residents-remember-mourn-slain-neighbors-criticize-gun-culture-and-lack-of-jobs/] , this past September 20. Allen “Pike” Cooper is wanted for
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.A 17-year-old resident of Ingersoll Houses was arrested on Friday, October 30 and charged with murder, attempted murder, and criminal possession of a weapon — all in the second degree — in the shooting death of 16-year-old Armani Hankins [/blog/2015/10/27/17-year-old-killed-by-bullet-to-the-head-in-rush-hour-shootout-at-flatbush-and-dekalb-avenues/] last Monday, October
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Anthony Sosa, president of Ingersoll Tenants Association, speaks about wait times for apartments and repairs at Ingersoll and NYCHA. (Photo by Fort Greene Focus)Despite a waiting list of over 270,000 people for an apartment in one of the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA), an audit by
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The controversial and emotional issue of downsizing — the practice of forcing existing residents, usually seniors, of New York City public housing to move into smaller apartments once their families grow up and move away, in order to make room for new residents and families who are currently on waiting lists
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35th District City Councilmember Laurie Cumbo. (Photo by The Nabe)Councilmember Laurie Cumbo [http://council.nyc.gov/d35/html/members/home.shtml]issued an apology on Thursday (March 26) for remarks made during a City Council Public Housing Committee hearing where she asked whether the New York City Housing Authority
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Photo by Demetrius Freeman/Mayoral Photography Office [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycmayorsoffice/15931487722/]Mayor Bill de Blasio took to Fort Greene’s Ingersoll Houses on Tuesday, December 2 in order to tout a 4.4 percent drop [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/536-14/de-blasio-administration-marks-safest-august---november-period-since-modern-crime-statistics-began#/0] in violent crime
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A 30-year-old man was shot yesterday afternoon at the Ingersoll Houses, according to the FDNY. Emergency workers responded to 56 Monument walk following a 3:01pm call, and transported the victim to Kings County Hospital in serious condition. Additionally this weekend, the second victim in a July 6 shooting on
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If you’re out enjoying the sun this weekend, remember to take some pictures and share them on the the Nabe’s Flickr pool. [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/pool] (Photo by Francisco Daum [https://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/])Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. This weekend
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By Irina Ivanova Friday saw a surge of two-wheelers on the road to Manhattan as cyclists came out of hibernation for Bike to Work Day [http://bikenyc.org/biketowork] and the Fort Greene biketrain [http://www.bikeapolis.us/2012/10/31/brooklyn-biketrain-fort-green-to-manhattan/] roared back into action. “The last time I