Business
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.
Nonsponsored
Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNERDisappointed by last week’s election results, Brooklyn writer Fiona Maazel [http://www.fionamaazel.com/] reacted by organizing a rally. Posting the event on her Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/events/1602788343357488/], she wrote, “I am going to Grand Army Plaza with my two-year-old daughter
Central Brooklyn
(Photo courtesy Brad Lander / Twitter [https://twitter.com/bradlander])After City Council Member Jumaane Williams, District 45, remained seated during the Council’s Pledge of Allegiance [/blog/news/council-member-jumaane-williams-sits-pledge-stand-racial-justice/] earlier this month to protest racial injustice, seven other members followed suit yesterday, including Brad Lander of District 39. Lander calls
Bensonhurst
Via NYT videoNot only won’t ex-officer Peter Liang spend a single day behind bars for the shooting death of unarmed Akai Gurley [/rookie-cop-indicted-akai-gurley-slaying-bensonhurst/] in a Brooklyn housing project, but his charges have been reduced. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun sentenced the former cop from Bensonhurst to five years
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Shannon Geis/KensingtonBKRoughly one hundred local residents lined up along the fence outside 385 McDonald Avenue Monday evening to protest the homeless shelter that DHS is opening in the space [/neighbors/council-member-lander-to-host-community-meeting-on-homeless-shelter/] . Many held signs with messages including “We’re Not Against A Homeless Shelter But It’s
brooklyn va hospital
Courtesy of Assemblyman William Colton’s OfficeAssemblyman William Colton throwing his support behind the service men and women who have been protesting [/temporary-closure-of-surgical-unit-at-brooklyn-va-hospital-sparks-protest-from-nurses-and-vets/#.VglLQGRVikp] the closure of the surgical unit at Dyker Heights’ Veterans Affairs Hospital (Brooklyn VA). “If the veterans can risk their lives for us and our country,
Dominican Republic
Image courtesy of Assemblywoman Rodneyse BichotteThis Friday, August 14, you can join Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte [http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Rodneyse-Bichotte/], Councilman Jumaane Williams [http://council.nyc.gov/d45/html/members/home.shtml], Councilman Mathieu Eugene [http://council.nyc.gov/d40/html/members/home.shtml], and other members of
caacr
Photo by Phil GimDenouncing the prosecution of NYPD Officer Peter Liang — whose ricochetting bullet fatally hit unarmed black man Akai Gurley [/rookie-cop-indicted-akai-gurley-slaying-bensonhurst/] in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project — a group of Asian American civil rights leaders and activists have announced a national day of protest to be
protest
Despite the rain and wind chill, over 50 parents, children, and allies of children with special needs came out this morning to protest the State Education Department’s (SED) freeze on funds for special education, which is forcing a Borough Park early childhood center to close in the middle of
East 18 Street
The tenants of 125 East 18th Street have, for years, lived in a nightmare. They have raised families under ceilings that have collapsed; they have paid hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets to get rid of the black mold giving them health problems; they have pleaded, time and
Alice Piacenza
Looks like 7th Avenue is taking a stand against the antiquated phone book. Photo by Alice Piacenza [/blog/food/making-cheese-accessible-at-the-ploughman]. Want to make use of these recently delivered relics? The gang over at Ditmas Park Corner [/] put together a list of alternatives to the trash that you can check out
protest
The above video, which we found via website Gotham Schools [http://gothamschools.org/2012/03/09/students-defend-dewey-from-closure-in-afternoon-walk-out/] , was produced by John Dewey High School teacher Phil Luchun. It features statistics, teacher commentaries and student testimonials meant to illustrate that Dewey as an academic institution is functional, and has improved in