...York City; there exists a clash between those who wish to preserve the existing social fabric of various districts in the city, and those who desire progress, new structures, and economic development. Examples abound, but the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards is one of the best. Wedged between the historic districts of Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Clinton Hill, and Fort Greene, the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards is the target of the Forest City Ratner Corporation, wh...
...out. Now it’s to a point where our members, the lowest paid here, are suffering. We had nothing to do with the planning for the Diana Center. That was their decision! How many more cuts can we take? I just purchased a home in Brooklyn, just trying to stay above on the mortgage and my daily living. I can’t go out to eat or to the movies. And I hear the same cries from the membership. A lot of us our working two jobs a day. What about those ladies...
...estion today is not whether or not such action will take place, but merely where and when. Correction: It was previously stated that Brian Jones is a teacher in East Harlem. Though currently on leave, he now teaches in Brooklyn. Correction: Previously, the article read “last November’s elections,” and was changed to “last September’s elections.”...
...123rd to 125th streets on Broadway. Sarah Martin, president of the Grant Houses Tenants Association, spoke to the moving crowd of 25 people about gentrification displacing long time residents, saying, “We’ve seen it happen in Brooklyn and other areas … there’s going to be a drastic change and I don’t think we’re going to be here.” Event participant Jim White, a volunteer at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, noted that he now needs to go to the Bronx t...
...yielded a different, and better, outcome. Some American cities are actually starting to experiment with participatory budgeting. In a trail that began in October 2011, four New York city council districts, including parts of Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, completed their first attempts at using PB to allocate municipal funding for capital expenditures, with votes ending April 1 of this year. The city council members in these four ar...
...target voters with direct mail campaigns because they could identify which voters agreed or disagreed with Millard on particular issues, such as the Clinton tax cut, gun control, and whether to build a garbage incinerator in Brooklyn. Still, Millard emphasized that he never changed his position on the issues based on the polling. “I certainly never said ‘well, gosh, I used to think the incinerator was a good idea, but the poll says everybody dis...
...it. But the evidence suggests that a Bachelor’s degree in anything isn’t worth as much in real life as it used to be. The present condition of New York speaks to this—there are probably a hundred thousand college graduates in Brooklyn living three to a room in the kinds of tenements that their grandparents or great-grandparents dreamed of escaping. Twenty-seven percent of Americans hold a post-secondary qualification, but among the population age...
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