“There is the lack of understanding about estates and how to protect your estate even in your demise.” Councilman Robert Cornegy By Mary Alice Miller The recent private sales and proposed development of the Slave Theater and adjacent properties have exposed raw wounds. The properties, first sold in 2013 to Fulton Halsey Development Group after […]Read More
Assemblyman Walter Mosley’s first State of the District address was attended by a Who’s Who of the 57th District in Brooklyn. Mosley took the opportunity to outline his accomplishments during his first year in office and to outline his 2014 legislative agenda for the district and New York City. During Mosley’s first week in office […]Read More
By: Mary Alice Miller It was an event full of all the pomp and circumstance attendant with a congressional office. Representative Hakeem Jeffries’ first congressional State of the District Address attracted constituents, elected officials, and youth who filled the auditorium at Boys and Girls high school. Describing his first year in office month-by-month, Jeffries said […]Read More
By Mary Alice Miller The Atlantic Yards project was sold to Brooklyn as a “Net” win for everybody. Residents and local businesses displaced by eminent domain and job seekers in surrounding communities were told the project would provide 10,000 jobs and affordable housing. A community benefits agreement – NYC’s first – guaranteed public benefits for […]Read More
By Mary Alice Miller Details of Forest City Ratner’s proposed joint venture with Greenland Holding Group were revealed in an Empire State Development (ESD) memorandum. The proposed transaction with Greenland would transfer FCRC’s interests and obligations in the Land Acquisition Agreement (including property acquired via eminent domain and reduced payments for MTA property) to the […]Read More
By Mary Alice Miller Last Sunday two babies – Daniela Majia, age 2, and Yoselin Mejia, age 1 – and their 21-year-old reportedly undocumented immigrant mother Deisy Garcia were found stabbed to death in their Queens apartment that the family of four shared with 12 other people. Investigators immediately began a search for the husband, […]Read More
By Mary Alice Miller If New Yorkers didn’t know that NYC’s first Democratic and progressive mayor in 20 years is a big deal, they found out when the de Blasio transition team announced that former president Bill Clinton would conduct the new mayor’s swearing-in. The announcement came one day after 1,000 inauguration tickets (set aside […]Read More
By Mary Alice Miller After years of planning and construction, central Brooklyn transit riders have begun to access new select bus service replacing limited stops along the B44 route complete with “bus bulb” sidewalk extensions. Most bus bulbs are flush with the sidewalk, but at the Nostrand Avenue/ Empire Boulevard stop the bulb is 4 […]Read More
