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Arts & Culture

To Protect And Serve, One Must Understand: Irondale And NYPD Break Ground With Police-Community Theater Production

The cast of “To Protect, Serve, and Understand.” (Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus)The group of 14 adults stand in the middle of the audience-level stage, looking outwards and towards a row of NYPD dress hats lined up in a semicircle around them. Rewind a few moments and

Arts & Culture

“To Protect And Serve” At Irondale Seeks To Use Improv To Build Police-Community Relations

Image via Irondale Ensemble.Improving police-community relationships has been a difficult task in neighborhoods and cities across the country. Now, a project between the Irondale Center (85 South Oxford Street) and NYPD Collaborative Policing unit seeks to try something new: improv. Called “To Protect And Serve,” the project consists of

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Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Events: Through Thursday, January 22

Photo courtesy of Irondale Center [http://irondale.org/FLICfest.html].Here’s this week’s roundup of neighborhood events taking place through Thursday. We’ll have your weekend schedule guide on Friday and as always, let us know if there’s anything we’re missing by emailing editor@bklyner.com!