Education
Originally posted on Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/01/11/white-teacher-mother-school-choice-segregation-nyc/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] by Alie Stumpf [https://www.chalkbeat.org/author/alie-stumpf/] on January 11, 2019. Reprinted with permission. When I read Saratu Ghartey’s story last fall
Dyker Heights
Photo by Mary Bakija/BklynerBy: City Councilman Justin Brannan and Community Board 10 District Manager Josephine Beckmann When most people talk about Christmas in New York City, they usually mention the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, the stunning holiday window displays at Saks Fifth Avenue or maybe the Rockettes at
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – When my parents arrived in the United States having fled war-torn Uganda, they never imagined the country they would risk life and limb for would descend into this, a backward sliding dystopia. Although President Trump’s election was a truly shocking moment for them, the last few weeks
News
Marty Golden. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)By Jay Brown and Rachel Posner On August 15, 2017, long-time Marty Golden employee and loyalist John Quaglione stood in front of a crowd at Xaverian High School and said this: “I’d be remiss not to say that we just saw a tragedy
Opinion
By Yaneth Lombana, LMSW, Trauma therapist and County Committee Member 56 AD 91 ED CROWN HEIGHTS – One of the nation’s largest Democratic county organizations, the Kings County Committee, is located in Brooklyn and has the power to influence judgeships and the potential to politically engage neighborhoods. As a trauma
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By Jonathan Westin, executive director of New York Communities for Change [https://www.nycommunities.org/about/]. It’s not a secret: the Trump Administration’s policies are ravaging our communities, causing damage that will take decades to rectify. Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, is doing what he’s done
Bay Ridge
By: Steve Saperstein, Candidate for the 46th Assembly Seat As a New York City public school teacher, I’m excited to start another year of school teaching bright minds and young adults. However, as a candidate for the 46th Assembly District, I’m nothing but pessimistic as our children are
Central Brooklyn
Adem Bunkeddeko.“Sounds like a suicide mission.” This was a common refrain I heard from most of Brooklyn’s political establishment when I ran as an insurgent for Congress earlier this year against Rep. Yvette Clarke. Yet in the June Democratic primary, I captured nearly 48% of the vote. The
Opinion
Photo Credit: dlandstudioBy Borough President Eric L. Adams and Rick Russo, the Acting President of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. In a borough with so much activity and congestion — the most populous of New York City — we must ask ourselves how Brooklyn can create more green recreational spaces in order
Letter To The Editor
Park Slope blockBy Jane Willis, Park Slope resident who spent the summer canvassing for Kashif Hussain in her neighborhood. In the heat of the first day of the Judge Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings on September 4th, the heat index in Park Slope was way high, too. A number of my friends
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH – I pass the Avenue H subway station every morning. There are always men who sit on the chairs in front of the station taking a hit of weed. Quite frankly, the area stinks. I’ve walked this way for over seven years. But today for the first time I
Events
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